Despite the inscription on her headstone, Mary Alice was born in the first quarter of 1878 (according to the official British birth index), the daughter of William and Elizabeth McMenemy Pye, and would become the sister of my paternal grandmother, Charlotte Pye Hill (73753085). Married to George Henry Cooper in 1897, she emigrated to America with him and their four small children in the summer of 1911, settling in the High Bridge area.
When George died in 1914, she was left to care for her three remaining children alone until she herself died in 1919. Charlotte, roughly 17 at the time, would go to live with her uncle, John C. Pye (74906481), in Haverford (Montgomery Co.), Pennsylvania. David (11) and Ellen or "Nellie" (8) were placed in the care of the Orphan Society of Philadelphia at its facility in Wallingford (Delaware Co.), as the uncle's circumstances would not allow additional children (he was a servant living on an estate); their transfer from New Jersey to the Philadelphia area left them close enough for frequent family contact however.
When George died in 1914, she was left to care for her three remaining children alone until she herself died in 1919. Charlotte, roughly 17 at the time, would go to live with her uncle, John C. Pye (74906481), in Haverford (Montgomery Co.), Pennsylvania. David (11) and Ellen or "Nellie" (8) were placed in the care of the Orphan Society of Philadelphia at its facility in Wallingford (Delaware Co.), as the uncle's circumstances would not allow additional children (he was a servant living on an estate); their transfer from New Jersey to the Philadelphia area left them close enough for frequent family contact however.
Despite the inscription on her headstone, Mary Alice was born in the first quarter of 1878 (according to the official British birth index), the daughter of William and Elizabeth McMenemy Pye, and would become the sister of my paternal grandmother, Charlotte Pye Hill (73753085). Married to George Henry Cooper in 1897, she emigrated to America with him and their four small children in the summer of 1911, settling in the High Bridge area.
When George died in 1914, she was left to care for her three remaining children alone until she herself died in 1919. Charlotte, roughly 17 at the time, would go to live with her uncle, John C. Pye (74906481), in Haverford (Montgomery Co.), Pennsylvania. David (11) and Ellen or "Nellie" (8) were placed in the care of the Orphan Society of Philadelphia at its facility in Wallingford (Delaware Co.), as the uncle's circumstances would not allow additional children (he was a servant living on an estate); their transfer from New Jersey to the Philadelphia area left them close enough for frequent family contact however.
When George died in 1914, she was left to care for her three remaining children alone until she herself died in 1919. Charlotte, roughly 17 at the time, would go to live with her uncle, John C. Pye (74906481), in Haverford (Montgomery Co.), Pennsylvania. David (11) and Ellen or "Nellie" (8) were placed in the care of the Orphan Society of Philadelphia at its facility in Wallingford (Delaware Co.), as the uncle's circumstances would not allow additional children (he was a servant living on an estate); their transfer from New Jersey to the Philadelphia area left them close enough for frequent family contact however.
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