Joseph COLEMAN, b. Abt 1847, Hucknall-Under-Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire, England d. 17 May 1911, Providence, RI (Age 64 years)
Mother
Elizabeth SLACK, b. Abt 23 May 1847, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England d. 13 Sep 1893, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England (Age 46 years)
Marriage
11 Jul 1870
St. John's Church, Mansfield, Notts, England
Notes
Joseph Coleman and Elizabeth Slack were married on July 11, 1870, at St. John's Church, Mansfield, Nottingham. Joseph's occupation is given as a frame work knitter; Elizabeth's is spinster. Witnesses on the certificate were John Adcock and Sarah Adcock. Sarah (b. 1843) was Elizabeth's sister, and John was Sarah's wife; they married April 16, 1865, also at St. John's.
Notes on St. John's Anglican Church taken from "A History of The Parish Church of Saint John the Evangelist" by E. W. Mellors: The church was erected in 1855/56. The building consists of a chancel, nave, two side aisles, and an 80-foot tower. The spire is about 100 feel high. Mansfield stone was used in the main building, and Ancaster stone for the spire. The foundation stone was laid by the Bishop of Lincoln on 6th Jan 1855, and the church was consecrated 29th July 1856. The seating accommodates 1,000 people. The lovely east window illustrates scenes from the life of Our Lord. Its cost was defrayed by the congregation and friends, and it was put in position in 1870. The organ was placed in the church in 1865, and restored in 1897. It is an excellent example of tone and workmanship.
I have visited this church and photographed it. There is a friendly and vital Christian community worshipping there now, as of 2004.
Nellie and Florrie. I don't know if this Nellie is a cousin or my grandmother; it doesn't look like her. They did have a cousin Nellie Slack.
Notes
Her birth was registered as Florry Coleman 4/1884 at Mansfield RD Ref 7b 96; she married William Bowler 4/1941 at Mansfield RD Ref 7b 213.
In the 1901 census, Florrie is age 16, a shop assistant, and is living at 1 Caxton Terrace, Mansfield, with her cousin John Slack and his wife Mary, ages 41 and 40. Also there is a niece, Ethel Bostock, likewise a shop assistant. (In 1891, John & Mary Slack are both age 30 and living at 28 Union St., Mansfield; niece Ethel Bostwick is with them, age 6.) John Slack, Florrie's cousin, must have been born c1860/61.
The 1891 census has her name as Clara (?).
This is the address that my aunts wrote to in the early-to-mid 1900s: 1 Terrace Rd., Caxton Terrace, Mansfield, Nottingham, England
1884 - Aft 1941 (> 58 years)
