Genealogy
Job and Althea Cope Job Cope and Althea Smith were both from Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Notts. They married in 1884 and had eight children; Fred, Martha, Job, Samuel, Altha, Horace and Nellie Cope, and Ernest Cope Smith. In 1891 they were still in Kirby but, by 1901, they had moved to Whiston and in 1904 they moved again to Treeton. Althea died in 1933 and Job in 1936. Their five sons all worked at Treeton Colliery with their father until Horace became a professional footballer with Notts County and Fred left to become a turf accountant, running his business from the old station hut in Treeton until the late 1960s. Horace joined Notts County in 1920 and later went on to run Treeton WMC before moving on to become a licensee in Nottingham, where he died in the mid 1970s.
Families connected to Cope: Ernest Cope Smith and Sarah Anne Spencer, John Smith and Violet Carr, ,,