Family of Simon Coombe and Ann Fey

Husband: Simon Coombe

Wife: Ann Fey

Child 1: William Coombe

Child 2: Elizabeth Coombe

Child 3: Emily Coombe

Child 4: Jane Coombe

Child 5: John Coombe

Note on Wife: Ann Fey

In 1871 Ann is living with daughter jane in Okehampton. In 1881 with her son. In 1891 she is with Jane again at 58 Croydon Street, Bristol

Note on Child 4: Jane Coombe

In 1881 Jane is a lodger at Westbury-in-Trym. In 1891 at Croydon Street with her mother. In 1901 alone, unmarried and still working as a laundress at 18 Blenheim Street, Bristol.

Note on Child 5: John Coombe

John seems to have been in the Royal Marines in 1871 on HMS Resistance, which on the night of the census was stationed off Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, Cheshire. The vessel was described as an Armour Plated Screw Ship. In 1881 he is with his mother Ann at 47 Gloster Road, Horfield, Gloucester, a carpenter and joiner, as he is after his marriage to Elizabeth when we find him in 1891 at 84 Colston Street, Bristol. In 1901 he is a foreman joiner with his family at 25 Badminton Road, St Paul, Bristol.According to a message from Kent 212 on Ancestry, in 1908 they moved to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where they can be found on the 1911 census. John, Elizabeth, Albert, Elsie, Sydney and Eva can be found living together. They then moved to Burlington, Ontario, Canada where John died in 1945.

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