George Edward COGGINS

22nd Mar 1856 - 28th Jun 1925

Headmaster

Life History

22nd Mar 1856	Born in Middleton Stoney, Oxford, England
1878	Married Jane Elizabeth SCALES in Kensington, London at the Church of St. Mary Abbots
1879	Birth of daughter Gertrude (Gar) Jane COGGINS in Tottenham, Middlesex, England
1880	Birth of son Sidney George COGGINS in Cardington, Bedfordshire, England
1882	Birth of daughter Mabel (Totsie) Kate COGGINS in Norfolk, Northwold, England
1887	Birth of daughter Winifred COGGINS in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
1887	Death of daughter Winifred COGGINS in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
1890	Birth of daughter Madge Nora COGGINS in Cardington, Bedfordshire, England
1892	Birth of daughter Elsie Marion COGGINS in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
25th May 1918	Death of Jane Elizabeth SCALES in Folkestone, Kent, England
about Aug 1918	Married Ethel Maud BROWNE in Folkestone, Kent, England
8th Sep 1921	Birth of son Robert George COGGINS in Folkestone, Kent, England
28th Jun 1925	Died in Walton, Norfolk, England

	Recorded living in Middleton Stoney in Apr 1861.1
	Worked in Cardington as Headmaster from 1879 to 1905.2

George Edward Coggins was very artistic (painting), and a good musician. He was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's Church of England Cardington (Bedfordshire, England) for many years. He was also headmaster of St Mary's Cardington School for 26 years. He married his first wife, Jane Scales, at St. Mary Abbots in Kensington, London. He married a second time in late 1918 in Folkestone, Kent, to Ethel Maud Browne. Their first child was stillborn; their second and only other child (Robert George) was born in 1921. In 1925, while on a holiday trip to Norfolk, George attended the evening service where he was noticed singing with a strong deep voice by the local rector. After the service he suddenly collapsed and died; he was buried two days later in the churchyard at Walton, Norfolk.