A wife for Benjamin Coles?
The London Metropolitan Archives are in the process of digitising their genealogical resources in association with Ancestry.com. These resources are being progressively made available, and having recently upgraded my subscription to Ancestry, searches for Benjamin Coles have uncovered some new information.
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People: Benjamin Coles (c.1767-1815), Elizabeth Adam (1772-1849), Elizabeth Boyd, John Adam
Places: Camden, Cannongate, Edinburgh, Islington, London
Elizabeth Coles, d.1849
Elizabeth Coles, widow of Benjamin Coles, clerk with the East India Company, died of old age at 2 Hawthorndean Place, Limehouse on November 7, 1849, aged 77 years.
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People: Elizabeth Adam (1772-1849), Mary Amelia Coe (c.1787–c.1877)
Places: Limehouse, Middlesex, Poplar
Searching for Benjamin Coles’ family
I have recently been corresponding with a newly discovered cousin. Our common ancestors are Benjamin Coles and his wife Elizabeth. Robyn is descended from Henry Boyde Coles, Benjamin and Elizabeth’s firstborn, while I’m descended from Henry’s younger brother Joseph.
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People: Benjamin Coles (c.1767-1815), Elizabeth Adam (1772-1849), Henry Boyde Coles (c.1797-1861), Joseph Coles (c.1798-1869)
Places: London, Mells, Middlesex, Somerset, St Martin in the Fields