Tom Eustace Coupland

Tom Eustace was born in 1897 in Wymswold and was the son of Tom Booker and Susanna Coupland née Spalding of Rempstone. Tom Booker Coupland was born in Carlton in Linderick, Nottinghamshire, in 1854 and his wife Susanna Spalding was born in Branston, Lincolnshire, in 1856. They were married in Nottingham in 1890; they went on to have a total of eight children who were, Arthur Harold b1891, Claude Hindley b1893, Percy Edgar b1895, Tom Eustace b1897, Edward Ernest b1900, Charles Douglas b1902, Frederick Septimus b1906 and Maud Anne b1911. They were all born in Rempstone with the exception of Tom Eustace who was born in Wymswold, Leicestershire. In the 1901 census the family are living at Cow Lane, Rempstone. In the 1911 census the family are living at Wysall Road, Remstone and are shown as Tom Booker 57 years a farm labourer, head of the family, living with his wife Susanna 44 yrs and four of their children, Tom Eustace 14 yrs a farm servant, Edward Ernest 11 yrs a scholar, Douglas Charles 9 yrs a scholar and Frederick Septimus 5 yrs a scholar. Their three eldest children have all left the family home and boarding in the area. Arthur Harold is 20 yrs and single is living at Holme Grange Cottages, Radcliffe on Trent; he is a farm labourer and is boarding with Robert Costall 26 yrs, also a farm labourer, and his family. Claude Hindley is 18 yrs single is living at Forest Cottage, Derby Rd, East Kirkby, Notts, and a horseman on a farm; he is lodging with Lewis Andrews and his family. Percy 16 years single and is living at London Road, Costock, a servant, living with Samuel Richards 53 yrs, a farmer and his family. Tom Booker died in 1926 aged 72 years and Susanna died in 1935 aged 79 yrs; they are both buried in the churchyard at All Saints Church, Rempstone.