Mavis I have been looking up various items on the internet and come across something that you put on the Crich Strays. Where did you get this information from? Looks like maybe my Matthew Cope. Perhaps he divorced Hannah and went out to Buenos Aries and married Eliza. The saga continues! Maureen 28/5/1858 Cope, Eliza 21½ Critch, Derbyshire Married woman Cancer of the womb Buenos Aries J Chubb Ford Possible husband – Matthew Cope died 23/2/1891 aged 55, engineer (England) at Buenos Aries (submitted by Mavis Johnson) On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:27 AM, MAVIS JOHNSON <mayjaysomerset@btinternet.com> wrote: > Maureen, > > Have you considered that he might have been working on the canals or > waterways network? > > I have found some 'lost' ancestors this way - they did not stop necessarily > for census enumerators - who would not necessarily search out individual > boats moored along rivers/canals or even doing the coastal routes. > > The fact that he was an iron turner also suggests links to Butterley > Ironworks or similar? > > Do put your discoveries on the List > > Regards > Mavis > > From: Maureen Allen <allen_maureen1@sky.com> > To: derbysgen@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wednesday, 2 January 2013, 9:14 > Subject: [DBY] Matthew COPE > > Thanks for all the replies to my query. Barbara and Louise I will > continue to try and find something in the navy records if I can. > > Maureen > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DERBYSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >