Richard Copson

Richard Copson was baptised on 20th January 1888 at St Marys Minster Church Southwell he was the son of Samuel Copson a basket maker and Annie Lawson, who married in the Radford registration district in 1873.

His father was born in 1854 in Nottingham and his mother Annie Lawson was born in 1850 in Long Bennington, Lincolnshire , they were married in 1873, their marriage was recorded in the Radford Registration District, they went on to thave the following children, Zbiah b1876 Nottingham, Jabe b1879 Long Bennington, George b1882 Long Bennington, Emma b1884 Doncaster, Samuel b1886 Southwell, Richard b1887 Southwell and Mary b1890 Southwell.

The family home in Southwell was on Westgate [C.1891 & C.1901]. Annie Copson died at Southwell, aged 53 in 1903. Samuel Copson, by trade a basket weaver, is last sighted in the 1891 census; what subsequently happened to him is unclear.

In the 1911 census Richard Copson 24 yrs single a lace threader was living with his sister, Jane 31 yrs single and is a cotton winder, at 5 Aston Terrace, Randal Street, Hyson Green [C.1911].

In 1912 he married Annie Elizabeth Hayes in 1912 at Nottingham, at Nottingham. Their only child, William Ernest (b.1914) was born in Nottingham they lived at 4 Lawrence Street, Radford,

A post-war address given for them by the CWGC was 4 Lawrence Street, Radford. The same address was given in the probate index registers for Annie Elizabeth Copson when she died age 33 on 12 March 1923.