Cope Hoddell

  Notes:

Info from Mark .

Marriage info from a website.

1841 Census, Living aged 4 months in St John's Parish, Coventry with parents and 2 others - Sarah Watkins (30) and Mary Ann Henry (15).

1851 Census; Living aged 10 in Coventry St Michael Parish, Warwickshire with parents. Occupation; Scholar.

1861 Census; Living, aged 20, at 2 Oxford St, Coventry St John Parish, Warwickshire with parents and a servant. Occupation; Watch Manufacturer (same as father).

1871 Census; Living as head aged 29 in St Michaels Parish, Coventry with wife, 2 sons and a servant. Occupation; Watch Manufacturer.

1881 Census; Widower, Living as head aged 40 at 2 Holly Bank, St John's Parish, Coventry with dau and 2 servants. Occupation; Watch Manufacturer.

London Gazette 17 Feb 1891;
Hoddell, Cope (trading as James Hoddell and Company) ; Residing at 4, Oxford-terrace, St. Mary Church, Torquay, Devonshire, and trading at Chapel Fields, in the city of Coventry, Warwickshire ; Watch Manufacturer ; Discharge suspended for three months. Bankrupt to be discharged as from the 20th April, 1891. Bankrupt had continued to trade after knowing himself to be insolvent

1891 Census; Can't find. But Lynne Hicks reports; 1891 census George C Hoddell, Head, living on his own means, born Coventry, Warwickshire, 1841 - Residing in St Mary Church, Torquay

1901 Census; Living as head (age 60) with 2nd wife Ada at 2 St Clementia Villas, Bournemouth. Occupation; Living on own means.

Cope married Dinah Westrap, daughter of Henry Westrap and Unknown, on 28 Jun 1866 in St Thomas, Coventry. (Dinah Westrap was born in 1847 in Coventry, died on 22 Apr 1880 in Holly Bank, Greyfriars Green, Coventry and was buried in 1880 in London Road Cemetry, Coventry.)

Cope next married Ada Jane Thomas in 1884 in St Asaph, Denbighshire. (Ada Jane Thomas was born in 1851 in Birmingham.)