Page 57 - Coleman and Staggall Family (UK Family)

We have also attempted to trace Walter Frederick Wightmans wife, Sarah Florence Beatrice (Florrie) Coleman and her story gets even more complicated. Linda remembers her Grandmother quite well, Florrie was brought up by her Aunty Sarah Harper in Suffolk at a place called Thorpe Morieux, this is not that far from Saxstead. We have traced some of the Coleman Family, Florries mother was Susan or Susannah and her sister was Sarah Staggall, Susan married John Harper. The Harpers are again easy to trace and their ancestors detailed on Ancestry.com but the Staggalls are more difficult. . I have attached a family tree of the Harpers to show the family tree that we have mapped out.

We have Florrie as a child listed with the Harpers in the 1891 census at Thorpe Morieux. Her Mother Susan is listed in the 1851 census at Thorpe Morieux with her father John Staggall and her Mother Charlotte (nee Drake) but otherwise we have been unable to trace Susan (Susannah) except that she is listed in the 1871 census living at Kew Road in Richmond London as an unmarried servant girl aged 25 with a 1 month old daughter called Charlotte Elizabeth. She then married Edward Charles Coleman in 1875 at St Georges Hanover, London, he was a sailor from St Albans in London.

Edward Charles Coleman is listed as a clerk in 1900 when Florrie gets married so he is alive then in 1900 but we have been unable to trace him or his family in census information at all. He is also obvoious;ly alive in 1910 when the photo og him with florrie and children was taken, shortly before they emigrated to Canada I imagine. Susan (Florries) mother also is impossible to be trace other than in 1851 and 1871 plus at her wedding in 1875 and at Florrie’s birth in 1879 but we will carry on looking.

NOTE: Better quality certificates and photos are on Page 14 Photo Albums 3, these do not display very clearly.