Fab Feb Photo Collage - Day Fourteen
Eleanor Eliza Cook in England c 1890s I swear I did not plan this post for today. It is sheer good luck that it happens to be Valentine's Day. It is of my paternal great-grandmother Eleanor Eliza Cook. She was born 21 September 1874 at 58 Orange Street and the birth was registered in Portsea Town, Portsmouth in the county of Southampton (No. 252). At the time, her mother Caroline was living at 25 Orange Street Portsea and her father James was a Gunner on HMS "Monarch". Of course now I want to know who was at 58 Orange Street. Was she born at a relative's house? Pop that on my To Do list. Are there Post Office Directories for that time in Portsmouth? Does anyone know? At the age of 17 Eleanor married Edwin Conner on 24 May 1892 at the Parish Church in the Parish of Portsea. (Number 319 on the register) She was then living at 3 Queen's Road. Edwin was an Engine Room Artificer at 31 Regent Street. ...