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Selina Jane Cooper

Selina was born in 1852 in Manchester.¹

Birth Notes
- Seline Cooper was 18 in 1871
  Selena Jane Mather was 28 in 1880, when died.
  
  Births Dec 1845   (>99%)
  SHORROCKS Selina Jane    Bolton 21 150
  
  Births Mar 1857   (>99%)
  Crompton Selina Jane     Bolton 8c 225
  
  Cooper, Selina Jane (1864-1946), suffragist and socialist (see National Archives, Lancashire). Cooper was a widow when she died leving her estate to Mary Jane Cooper, spinster. This cannot be the same person (as married name Cooper).

Selina is no longer alive.

General Notes
- Selina Cooper, dau of Mary and Frederick, baptised in Manchester.
  
  In 1871, Selina Cooper, 18, sister-in-law, was a piecer at the cotton mill, Manchester New Cross. Her sister was Sarah Cooper married to John Hunt (both 23). This may be the same person! There isnt a Manchester birth record. That Selina (aged 23) may have married Andreas Pendergast in 1874 at Manchester.

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¹ 1871 UK Census
Sources/Citations FreeBMD.org.uk, GRO Reference