Founder player Leyton Orient Football Club 1895-1906 See Leyton Orient - A Complete Record (1881-1990)
by Neil Kaufman, Alan Ravenhill Copywright 1990.
Resident at School House, Percy Road, Hackney 1896-1910, now Kingshold Rd off Well Street. There is still a school situated there, though obviously not the same building.In 1891 his mother in law was the schools caretaker.
His son KWG was not christened at St John of Jerusalem, but his sisters Annie Sybil and Ivy Innes were. Details of the first of these christening show father and mother resident at 80 Balorna Street. But with the second in 1907 they were back to the School House again. KLG listed in the christening registers as Clerk or Commercial Clerk.
In Charles Booths descriptive map of London poverty 1889 Percy Rd is coloured pale blue - classified as poor 18s-21 s a week for a moderate family. Most of the houses on Hackney Rd were "Fairly comfortable good ordinary earnings. Mare St. was the same.Categories in Booth's map v.deep blue = lowest class, viscious semi-criminal, deep blue very poor casual chronic want
light blue 18s -21 s etc.
light fawn mixed some comfortable others poor
light brown fairly comfortable good ordinary earnings
deep red middle class well to do
yellow upper middle and upper class wealthy.KLG was living at 78 Middleton Road, Dalston E8 prior to his death by coronary thrombosis. He was a retired market salesman (fruit trade).
Informant of death was KWG of 7, Willoughby Rd., Bucks on the same day as his death.
Registered 14 July 1868 at Walton, Aylesbury. in the 1871 census he was aged 2 at Walton Green. As a boy he used to swim in the canal (21 and 22 Canal Terrace , where he lived, faced the canal). In 1881 aged 12 he was a grocer's errand boy, living at 1 Walton Green with his father and mother(aged 35 and 32 respectively).
The witesses to the wedding of Thomas and Ada were Henry G. Cope and Sarah Ellen Pemberton. He was then described as a porter and was resident at 35 Commercial St, where he was the lodger and where the Copes lived.
Thomas initailly tried a number of jobs, including "the Guards", before becoming a bookbinder. He is described
as having climbed up and written his W) number on the bells at Aylesbury.
He became a bookbinder (journeyman) for Eyre and Spottiswoode in the "Confidential (documents) Dept.". He worked there for 50 years and retired at 65.
Residences after marriage were 59 Moat Drive, Harrow; Avondale Square, which was bombed in WWII; 66, Surrey Square; and Beechdale Rd, Brixton; finally where he died - Colwyn Bay.
As a child in the space of 5 years, having just moved from Bedfordbury, lost her mother, father and grandfather.
accoding to her daughter amy, she was the only one of the Cope family who was not red-haired.