Stella Beatrice Cooper

ID# 4741, (1898-1978)
     1 Stella Beatrice Cooper was born on 29 January 1898 in Kamloops, British Columbia.2,3 She was the daughter of Thomas Cooper and Sarah Rolston.3 She married Joseph William Ratchford on 1 November 1919 in New Westminster, British Columbia.3 She died on 6 September 1978 in Overlander Extended Care Hospital, Kamloops, British Columbia, at age 80.4 She was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Kamloops, British ColumbiaG.4

A story about the Thomas Cooper family appeared in Bunch Grass to Barbed Wire, a local history of the Kamloops, BC area, published in 1984.5

Census Records

YearPlaceHead of Household
1901Vernon District, Yale & Cariboo, British ColumbiaThomas Cooper2
Last Edited=24 Jul 2013

Citations

  1. [S1559] Rose Hill Farmers' Institute, Bunch Grass to Barbed Wire (Knutsford, BC: 1984), pg 216.
  2. [S1125] Thomas Cooper, 1901 Census (Vernon, Yale & Cariboo, British Columbia), Library & Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
  3. [S1560] Stella Cooper & Joseph Ratchford, Marriage Registration 19-09-198708 (3 Nov 1919), BC Archives, 655 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia.
  4. [S1561] Stella Ratchford, Death Registration 78-09-013241 (7 Sep 1978), BC Archives, 655 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia.
  5. [S1559] Rose Hill Farmers' Institute, Bunch Grass to Barbed Wire (Knutsford, BC: 1984), pg 215-216.