Norm Simcock wrote: > Frederick N COPPIN married Catherine BARKER in the first qtr 1899 > in the Hitchin Registration District. Vol 3a page 603. He was a > newly appointed station master aged 31 years at Birdbrook on the > Colne Valley Railway Line. I don't know about her past. > > Catherine died in the registration district of Chesterton in the > first qtr of 1901. Her age is given as 79 years. Vol 3b page 291. I > have looked at the original scan. Could be an error but is more likely to be a totally different Catherine COPPIN. You'd need to get the marriage certificate to confirm her age on there and also the death certificate to see if the age is really 79 and not, for instance, a misread 29. It would also give her as wife of <husband's name> in the occupation column. Frederick might have been her toy boy, but I doubt it.