10) Residents in Richard Cooper Street - 1891

Several families' menfolk were at sea, women at home caring for children and sometimes taking-in boarders or relatives.

Four doors from Walter Dixie and his wife Elizabeth, lived Susannah MOORE, (No. 8) with two young children and her 14 year old servant girl, Carrie Bowes. Mrs. Moore was married to George King Moore, a sea-going mariner who became an Elder Brother of Trinity House. They moved into one of the substantial Victorian villas that Dixie built in Marshfield around the mid-1890s. The Moores named their new home “Winterton”, after their coastal Norfolk birthplace and from where George first went to sea in sailing ships when still a boy. Around 1888 Captain G. K. Moore achieved his first command, as master of the old ss. Calder, soon after the vessel was commissioned for Goole Steam Shipping, before making many deep sea voyages for Alexander Meek's Yorkshire Coal & Shipping Company.??

It is probable that Captain Moore retained ownership of 8 Richard Cooper Street. On his death in 1934 floral tributes were received from tenants.

Neighbours William HARNEW (No.10 in 1901), was a Tugboat Master and native of Thorne whose name sounded very Dutch/Flemish to Harold Garside (Goole historian), who linked him to the early drainage immigrants. Captain Harnew joined the Goole & Hull Steam Towing Co. Ltd. at or soon after its formation in 1875/6, serving for over 50 years before retirement. Mr. & Mrs. Harnew lived at 70 Marshfield Road from 1914 where he died in 1933.

A third neighbour William CROUDSON (No.12) moved to 38 Marshfield Road c.1907. Born in Old Goole, Mr. Croudson began his working life as a Clerk in the Aire & Calder offices, moved to the Goole Gas & Water Company before it was taken over by the Goole Urban District Council and rose to the position of Gas and Water Rates Collector before he retired at the age of 70 in 1928, losing Mary, his wife in November1928 and then moving to Hornsea, the home of his daughter, where his own death occurred in March 1929.

Other families living in Richard Cooper Street in 1891 were the Knottingley-born mariners, W.F. and A.R.DEPLEDGE (Nos. 14 and 16), and Mrs. Mary DEPLEDGE (No.32), whose biographies and shipping history have been listed by Geoff Depledge in greater detail in his personal reminiscences, also on www.goole-on-the-web.org.uk.  He recalls his relatives the 'Depledge's' staying in Richard Cooper Street.  In 1901Thomas & his family were at no 24 Richard Cooper St, Robert at no. 16 and his Dad Sidney's family (he wasn't born untill 1919) were at no. 20.Samuel and his family stayed at no. 23 Phoenix Street.

The Johnston family (occupants at No.27) were at sea when the census was taken.

George ARNOLD (No.28), a mariner hailing from Gainsborough on the Trent.

Was Elizabeth JEPSON (No. 30) the wife of a seafarer?

What about Mary MUND(A)Y (No.34)?

Across the road (No.35) Isaac HEBDON keel owner, and two of his sons, Alfred and Joseph, were river sailors.

George OSBORNE (No.31) was also a Knottingley-born Captain of a sailing vessel .

John HUSON (No.23) born London, a Marine Engineer.

Charles HUDSON (No.17) Goole-born First Mate.

John WILSON (living with his in-laws at No.11), Scottish sailor.

John SMITH, aged 15 (No.9), an Engineer's Steward at sea.

Other occupants were Clerks for Merchants* and Shipping companies, Carpenter and Shipwrights, a Bricklayer, Warehouse Foreman at Alum Works, Coach Painter, Dressmaker, Lockman, Travelling Agent, Grocer's Assistant, Boot Maker, Shipsmith, Blacksmith, Monthly Nurse, Confectioner, Milliner's Apprentice, Boatman for H.M.Customs.

* Joseph RICHARDSON (No.20) and his wife Mary, had son Henry W., 1.  Was this Jos. Richardson the future coal merchant?  - who did well and was living at Airmyn 1916 ?
Ref. East Riding Archives - Copy agreement for tenancy from year to year relating to property in Airmyn Date 17 Mar 1916 Description Parties: 1) Algernon Hugh Heber Percy, Hodnet Hall, Shropshire, esquire 2) Joseph Richardson, Goole, coal merchant Property: Airmyn Hall with stables, coach house and outbuildings, gardens, greenhouses and farm buildings and three parks adjoining containing 14.373 acres, numbers 247, 250 and 252 on the Ordnance Survey map, all at Airmyn Consideration: £88 15s per year Witness: T Balfour, Cheswardine, Market Drayton, land agent.

Four were self-employed: Dixie,  W.F. Depledge, I. Hebden and  R. H. Huntington,

I. Hebden supplied local builders with sand dredged from the river.  Sadly, his son Joseph , 21 years old and captain of the keel, drowned in 1891, together with his brother-in-law Smith Halliday, 31 year old landlord of the Blacksmith Arms, Hook. 

Richard Huntington - born at Airmyn, was ?a younger brother of Thomas Huntington, one of Goole's guiding lights, a draper, who was appointed a J.P., and elected to the West Riding County Council.  In keeping with his position as one of Goole's leading businessmen, most influential in the town's affairs during the prosperous decades of the 1880s and '90s, Thomas Huntington moved his family via George Street, Aire Street and Boothferry Road to Old Potter Grange, set in 154 acres of farmland on the outskirts of Goole. 

R.H.H. also represented East Ward as a local Councillor later in life.

Four families had live-in domestic help - sometimes a relative may have provided this service in return for accommodation.

Interestingly, there are no 1891 census listings for the properties that would become Nos. 5, 3 and 1 Richard Cooper Street. Presumably these were still to be built on what was a restricted corner site?