Gertrude Cooper 1870-1919

Longmore/Brown/Geddes Ancestry tree;

in contact with Ursularuth, its owner, who is related to the husband, Alexander Gowans, of Gertrude's daughter, Jessie L Brown 1897

1870. Gertrude Cooper was born 27/4/1870 at 30 Thistle Street, Old Machar, Aberdeen to Robert Cooper & Annie McDonald.

Edith Cooper 1870 was her twin sister, who married Dr Walter Crombie.

1870. Her mother, Ann Cooper, dies on 17/9/1870

1871C.Gertrude Cooper is living 30 Thistle Street, Old Machar, Aberdeen

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.Gertrude Cooper is living Schoolhill, 66 St Nicholas, Aberdeen

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

1881-1891. Her father remarries

1891C..Gertrude Cooper is living at 34 Castle Street, St Nicholas, Aberdeen

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

1891-1895. Cannot find a ship record of her travelling out to South Africa. She likely knew her future husband in Aberdeen, as he was working as a bank clerk there in 1891C

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Edith- on left- & Gertrude . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . Unknown, Gertrude & Edith

1895 Gertrude Cooper marries William Longmore Brown in Durban on 17/9/1895

1897 Their first daughter, Jessie Longmore Brown/Trixie, born on 25/6/1897 in Durban

1898/9. Edith Natalie Brown was born to William & Gertrude on 25/12 in Natal, South Africa. Her elder sister was born there 1897- newspaper entry- and she is given as aged 3 on 1901C: Edith as aged 2. So I feel she would have been born 1898

1899. Her husband was a Trooper in the Thorneycroft Mountain Rifles : enlisted 27/10/1899, discharged 15/2/1901

1899-1901. Gertrude returned to Keith with her 2 small daughters - was this a permanent separation??

1901. William Longmore Brown enlisted 25/2/1901 in the 68 Mountain Rifles - trade given as book keeper.

1901C. Gertrude Brown, 30, is living Gladstone Place, 36, Aberdeen St, Machar, Aberdeenshire, with her father & sister & her daughter Edith Brown, 2. . Gertrude's other daughter, Jessie L Brown, 3, is living with Isabella J P Brown, her husband's sister, at Milton Lodge Keith, the home of her mother in law, Jessie Brown/Longmore 1842 -1920

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. William Longmore Brown died in Johannesberg on 13/8/1901 of wounds received Bethseda, Free State. A Suggestion that his wounds were self inflicted

1911C. Edith Brown, 12, is living with her mother, Gertrude, private means, at 95 Blenheim Place, Aberdeen -SP, purchased . Her sister, Jessie L Brown, 13, is not with them

1919. Gertrude Brown dies 22/6/1919 at 14 Crown Street,, Aberdeen. Probate of £76, her daughter, Edith Natalie Brown, her executrix. Informant on her d.c. was Edith Crombie, sister - so think Ursularuth must have this d.c.?

She died with very little money: would seem that the wealthy Brown family did not support her

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