20 -THE BUGLE 13th MAY 1999 The ongoing search for the family of a Boer War soldier from Brierley Hill
... born 1876 aged 15 years Harden Cooksey Jnr born 1878 aged 14 years It would appear that Thomas North is the same Thomas that appears in the 1881 Census as Thomas Cooksey aged 6 years He was in fact bom to Matilda in 1859 when she was 18 years of age and ...