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James Reedman COLE
(1857 - 1936)
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[Line of
descent of James Reedman Cole : Daniel
Cole -> John Cole ->
James Reedman Cole]
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James
Reedman Cole and his wife, born Elizabeth Caroline Ellis,
were my Cole great grandparents
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Recollections
of James Reedman Cole by his grandson Edward George Cole (2nd)
with a note by Pat's mother
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COMPUTER
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Father: John
Cole (b. 14 Oct
1807, d. 29 Oct 1897)
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Mother: Mary
Colley (b. 26 Feb
1813, d. 04 Feb 1896)
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| Birth |
23
Nov 1857 |
The Tottenham Tile
Kilns |
| Name |
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His 'Reedman'
middle name given by his parents as a token of love and
respect for Mary
Ann (their eldest
daughter) and her husband Edward John Reedman who had just
emigrated to Australia. |
| Census
1861 |
08
Apr 1861 |
Tile Kilns;
age 3 with parents and some siblings. |
| Education |
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Hermitage Road
School, Tottenham. |
| Employment |
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Started out as
a schoolmaster, but gave this up to join his brother, E. G.
Cole, in taking over the pottery when their two elder
brothers had run into financial difficulties with it. |
| Marriage |
14
Feb 1880 |
Elizabeth
Caroline ELLIS (b.
17 Aug 1861, d. 20 Jan 1936); Parish Church, Tottenham |
| Census1881 |
04
Apr 1881 |
Elizabeth
Caroline ELLIS (b. 17 Aug 1861, d. 20 Jan 1936); Queen St,
Tottenham; age 23 with wife Elizabeth C age 19, two house,
but one, next to his brother John Thomas. |
| Son: |
30
Jul 1881 |
Herbert
James Claud COLE;
Queen Street, Tottenham. |
| Daughter |
20
Sep 1883 |
Edith
Elizabeth COLE;
Tottenham. |
| Daughter |
04
Jul 1886 |
Mary May
COLE; Tottenham. |
| Daughter |
04
Jan 1888 |
Ethel Maud
COLE; Tottenham. |
| Daughter |
26
Sep 1890 |
Ivy COLE;
Tottenham. |
| Census1891 |
04
Apr 1891 |
Elizabeth
Caroline ELLIS (b. 17 Aug 1861, d. 20 Jan 1936); living with
five children at 5A Princes Street next to Elizabeth
Caroline's father, John George Ellis. James is Foreman at
Potteries. James aged 33 and Elizabeth Caroline aged 29. |
| Daughter
(twin) |
06
Sep 1892 |
Annie COLE |
| Daughter
(twin) |
1889 |
Emily COLE |
| Daughter |
04
Nov 1893 |
Grace Ellis
COLE |
| Son |
28
Nov 1899 |
Arthur Edward
COLE; This was his official birthday, the one that appears
on all the records and which he celebrated. In fact, though,
he was born on 14 November. As his mother was late in
registering the birth, which had to be done within six weeks
to avoid a penalty, she gave the later date. |
| Census1901 |
31
Mar 1901 |
3 Prospect
Place; as a potter, age 43. |
| Address |
1910
- 1930s |
Tentdale; By
1910 he and his family had moved into Tentdale where he was
the live-in manager of the Cole
Potteries. |
| Address |
1930s |
Turned out of
the Tentdale by the then owner, Sid
Cole,
and living in various flats in Ruislip and Hillingdon as
well as with son Arthur and his wife. |
| Illness |
31
Mar 1901 |
His hands used
to shake, so he could have had Parkinsons like his grandson,
Ron, via daughter Ivy. |
| 17
Jun 1936 |
17
Jun 1936 |
The newspaper
obituary put him at 79 when he died, although he was still
only 78. |
Photographs and documents charting his life
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Dates are approximate.
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Birth
certificate of James Reedman Cole. 1857
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Marriage
certificate of James Reedman Cole and Ellizabeth Caroline
Ellis. 1880
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Christmas
1926 at Lopen Road, top left to right: daughter Annie, son
Jim, grandson Ted's wife Win, unknown, bottom row: Ted,
granddaughter Cis, son Arthur's wife Mag, James Reedman,
Florence Maria, Arthur. 1926
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Christmas
1926 at Lopen Road, top left to right: unknown, son Jim,
Annie, Cis, James Reedman, bottom row: Mag , Win , Florence
Maria. 1926
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Grandson
Ted's wife Winifred (Funnell) Cole and James Reedman Cole,
Christmas 1926, at 116 Lopen Road. 1926
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James
Reedman and Elizabeth Caroline sitting together, probably in
Ruislip after leaving the pottery. 1930
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Charabang
outing: James Reedman (standing), Elizabeth Caroline Cole
(on his left), Mag and Arthur (third row from the back).
1930
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L to R:
Elizabeth Caroline, James Reedman, presumably with their
granddaughter Elizabeth Mitchell and her husband Leslie
D'Albertson.
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Top left to
right: Ted's friend Bob Simmons, Jim, Ethel's son-in-law
Lawrence Wooding, Arthur, bottom: Ethel's husband Thomas
Arthur Silver, James Reedman. 1930
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James
Reedman. 1930
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Top L to R:
Ethel, Jim, Arthur, Annie. Bottom L to R: James Reedman,
Elizabeth Caroline. 1930
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Notice of
death of James Reedman Cole in Tottenham Weekly Herald. 1935
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Grave with
headstone. 1936
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RECOLLECTIONS
OF JAMES REEDMAN COLE
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by his grandson Edward
George Cole (2nd)
"My
grandfather was a man of few words and appeared to have no
interests other than his work. He started work at 4 a.m. He
lived at various addresses in Tottenham but for all the time
I remember he lived at Tentdale, the house attached to the
pottery, which was fair sized and, I imagine, there before
the pottery. He spent a lot of time sitting in the porch at
the side of the house looking out over the fields opposite.
Although I was 29 when he died, I never remember having a
conversation with him. If, as children, we called in when
out for a walk (it was in a rural setting), he would look up
at the sky and say 'you had better cut along while it is
fine'. This could be in the middle of a heat wave.
He did a fair
amount of family visiting and, I understand, quite a lot of
cycling in his younger days. I gather that he was, at one
time, interested in the Congregational Church at the
Edmonton / Tottenham boundary as I remember him being one of
the trustees of the slate club (a friendly society) based at
the church. One of my recollections of Sunday evenings at
the house was him playing the piano with my aunts, and my
mother, standing round singing hymns and ballads of an
earlier period. As I said, it was a fair sized house,
situated in a rural setting, which made it an ideal venue
for a walk or visit, particularly as there were various
members of the large Ellis family (his wife's family) living
within the area. My grandmother did a lot of entertaining
and it was her boast that they never had Sunday Tea (a major
social meal) on their own.
When they
left the pottery, they went to live with their son Arthur at
Bush Hill Park. When Arthur moved away from the district
they took rooms in Wood Green but this was only for a short
time. My grandmother died and my grandfather then went to
again live with Arthur, now at Ruislip, until he died on 17
June 1936, aged 77."
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Note by Pat's
mother, born Florence Edith Cole: "My grandfather was
very fair with one of those creamy almost transparent skins,
quite unlike his brother EG who was a big, ruddy, burly
man."
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