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Catherine Cole (1802-1865) was the twin daughter of the nominal founder of the family pottery and brickmaking business and her own descendants who married into the Cox family, followed the tradition. This page provides a summary. |
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Catherine Cole was one of twins. She and her twin Sarah were born on 9 Jul 1802 into a family consisting of their mother Ann, their father Daniel and their brother Thomas. However, at the time of their birth and their baptisms on 1 Aug 1802 at Old Church, St Pancras, their father was away serving in the Napoleonic wars with Nelson's Navy. That stint finished on in December 1803 - although he was to return to the navy - so the toddler twins were suddenly presented with a father they had never seen! Presumably their mother had the support of other pottery and brickmaking families in the area, who may well have been related, but no supporting records have come to light. Daniel, the twins' father was permanently discharged from the navy on 13 Sep 1805, whereupon the family continued to live in the St Pancras area, at least until son John was born on 14 October 1807. While there Daniel plied his trade as a potter in Tileyard Road. Sometime before 16 November 1809 they moved to the Tile Kilins in Green Lanes, near Stoke Newington, the birthplace of younger brother Daniel as given in later census records. On 11 November 1821, at the age of 19, Catherine married William Dean at St Anne Church, Soho. (One wonders why they chose this particular church.) Afterwards the couple settled in Islington for a while, as that was where their eldest son was born. By the time of the 1841 census, the family was at the Tile Kilns where William was a labourer. Their children were:
Sarah and Charlotte married two Cox brothers. Sarah Dean married Henry Cox and Charlotte Dean married William Cox, both in 1854, and all four emigrated together on the Coromandel, which left Southampton on or around 12 Sep 1854. They arrived in Port Adelaide on 8 Jan 1855 well before their cousins Mary Ann (Cole) and Edward John Reedman, who left Liverpool on 10 December 1856 on the Monsoon and arrived in Adelaide on the 5 March 1857. In Australia the Coxs and the Reedmans continued the family tradition and worked together for some time as brickmakers. Back in England Catherine died in 1865 and was buried in Abney Park Cemetery on 21 September. Her grandson William Dean, was still working with the Cole family in 1901 at their pottery in White Hart Lane. |
version date: 02 July, 2006