Edith Cooper 1870 - >1942
1870. Edith Cooper, and her twin Gertrude, , were born to Robert Cooper & Annie McDonald on 24/4/1870 at 30 Thistle Street, Aberdeen. Baptised 11/5/1870.
1870. Her mother, Ann Cooper, of Errol Street, Peterhead, dies on 17/9/1870, .-SP, not purchased, as Ann Cooper, 30, mother's maiden name Innes
The twins were only 5 months old
1871C. .Robert Cooper, 28, widower, reporter, is living 30 Thistle Street, Old Machar, Aberdeen with his motherless twin daughters. His elder sister, Hariet, is looking after them
| Robert | Cooper | Head | Widower | Male | 28 | 1843 | Reporter | Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Gertrude | Cooper | Daughter | - | Female | 1 | 1870 | - | Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Edith | Cooper | Daughter | - | Female | 1 | 1870 | - | Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Harriet | Cooper | Sister | Unmarried | Female | 32 | 1839 | House Keeper | England |
| Margaret Metechill | Clark | Servant | Unmarried | Female | 17 | 1854 | General Domestic Serv | Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
1881C. .Robert Cooper, 38, reporter & precentor, is living Schoolhill, 66 St Nicholas, Aberdeen. with his motherless twin daughters. His elder sister, now called marion!, is looking after them
| Robert | Cooper | Head | Widower | Male | 38 | 1843 | Reporter & Precentor | Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Marion | Cooper | Sister | Unmarried | Female | 41 | 1840 | Housekeeper | England |
| Gertrude | Cooper | Daughter | - | Female | 10 | 1871 | Scholar | Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Edith | Cooper | Daughter | - | Female | 10 | 1871 | Scholar | Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
1881-1889.Robert Cooper remarries. His somewhat younger wife is Eliza A ??. They have a daughter, Ethel Cooper, ~1889
1891C. .Robert Cooper, 48, shorthand writer, is living Castle Street, St Nicholas, Aberdeen with his 2nd wife, Eliza A Cooper, a new baby, Ethel, 2, & twin daughters, Gertrude & Edith, 20.
| Robert | Cooper | Head | Married | Male | 48 | 1843 | Shorthand Writer | Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Eliza A | Cooper | Wife | Married | Female | 29 | 1862 | - | Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Gertrude | Cooper | Daughter | Unmarried | Female | 20 | 1871 | - | Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Edith | Cooper | Daughter | Unmarried | Female | 20 | 1871 | - | Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Ethel | Cooper | Daughter | - | Female | 2 | 1889 | - | Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
.
Edith- on left- & Gertrude . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . Unknown, Gertrude & Edith
1895. Her twin sister, Gertrude, marries William Longmore Brown in Durban, Natal in 1895
1901C..Robert Cooper, 58, shorthand writer is living Gladstone Place, 36, Aberdeen St , Machar, Aberdeenshire, with daughters, Gertrude & Edith, & granddaughter Edith Brown. His other granddaughter is living with Isabella J P Brown. . Where is 2nd wife Eliza & their child, Ethel? ? - cannot find them on FMP
| Robert | Cooper | Head | Married | Male | 58 | 1843 | Shorthand Writer (Official) | Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Gertrude | Brown | Daughter | Married | Female | 30 | 1871 | - | Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Edith | Cooper | Daughter | Single | Female | 30 | 1871 | - | Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Edith | Brown | Granddaughter | - | Female | 2 | 1899 | - | Natal South Africa |
| Divida E | Cooper | Niece | Single | Female | 21 | 1880 | China Merchant's Assistant | Dundee, Forfarshire (Angus), Scotland |
| Hannah S H | Cooper | Niece | Single | Female | 25 | 1876 | Drapers Assistant | Dundee, Forfarshire (Angus), Scotland |
1901-1905. Edith Cooper goes out to South Africa.. She had maybe already visited there when Gertrude was living there 1895-1899
Walter Paterson Crombie was a 2nd Lieutenant volunteer by 24/10/1900 in the Boer war, S.A. - in London Gazette 1900 . Walter Crombie, 29, dental surgeon, living Aberdeen in 1901C : this is he, W P Crombie, BSC Aberdeen 1895, Royal Coll. Surgeons England 1898, etc. Living 5 Golden Sq., Aberdeen in 1900, 1901,1903, 1905, 1910, - Ancestry .. Mysteriously, a Walter Crombie, aged 42, visitor,widower, own means, born Old Machar Aberdeen in 1911C in Army & Navy Mansions, St Margaret & St John, London . Could he have been married between 1901 and 1910 and his wife died?; doubt it, no marriages found on SP & then decided to make a new life in S.A ?? And died there September 1918 - 2 obituaries on FMP Newspapers: claimed he went to S A ~1908 and practised in Johannesburg, then Cape Town, then Durban: he was a fine rower & tennis player
1905. Edith Cooper, 35, married Dr Walter Paterson Crombie, 38, on 4/9/1911 in Johannesburg - she actually 40/41. Crombie likely a friend/acquaintance of her brother in law, William Longmore Brown
Walter Crombie & Edith Cooper: seemingly not their wedding but taken 1912 S. A.
. 
Dr Walter Crombie . . . . . . . . . . & his brother, James Crombie: they practised together in Aberdeen ~1900-1908
1918. She was trying to travel to Scotland . Had obtained a passport in January 1918
.
.
Walter Paterson Crombie died Durban September 1918 - 2 obituaries on FMP Newspapers: claimed he went to S A ~1908 and practised in Johannesburg, then Cape Town, then Durban: he was a fine rower & tennis player
1918. She was refused permission to travel to the UK in October. The first letter talks of her son & her late husband . Her address c/o S A E Refineries Natal
1918. October. She was in Natal in October
1919. Mrs Edith Crombie, 46, and Martin C Crombie, 6, left Cape Town arriving England 22/2/1919 - Ancestry Shipping records
1920. Living Dunalister on 30/6/1920: hosted the wedding reception of her niece, Jessie Brown 1897
.
Her only son, Charles R C Crombie, M N was presumed lost in 1942- FMP Newspapers, Edith still alive then.
No death on SP for Edith Crombie 1920-1970
To be answered by the Gait family: about when did she die ?? An Edith Crombie, 80, died Leeds Jun 1950