Phoebe HOPKINSON
married Edward COULISHER some months after she gave birth to Matthew
HOPKINSON. Matthew's
eldest son and daughter became Mormons and emigrated to Utah.
Therefore the LDS Church is very interested in certainly the HOPKINSONs
and also the COULISHERs. They assume (rightly or wrongly) that
Edward is Matthew's father.
Phoebe and Edward were married in 1848 in Papplewick, Nottinghamshire.
He probably came from Lowdham, as the IGI also has a marriage
entry for them there (probably from the Banns register as there
is no marriage there). Phoebe was with her parents in the 1851
census, with their daugher Ann (census says born in London, baptism
found in Lowdham). Edward was alone in Lowdham. The Lowdham registers
have four other children before Edward dies in 1858. Phoebe married
William MILLS in 1865.
According to the 1851 census, Edward was born in Hickling about
1830, but there is no matching baptism. There are few COWLISHAW's
in Lowdham and I think his parents were William (born 1794 in
Lambley) and Ann (born 1791 in Hutton, Leicestershire). According
to the Lowdham MI's they also had a daughter Mary (born 1819),
again no baptism.
