Frederick Augustus Coe

Who is Frederick Augustus Coe?

Frederick Augustus Coe was a cashier in a local iron works in Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England, though later became an iron works manager. Frederick's wife Margaret Robertson was a native of Edinburgh, Scotland. The family lived in Cardiff, Wales, by 1874. At the beginning of the 1880s the family were residents in Gloucester.

Margaret Coe and other members of the Coe family arrived in New York on August 18, 1883, from Hull, England, aboard the Rhodora, a merchant ship owned by Margaret's elder brother George Robertson. Their final destination was Philadelphia.

Names of the ten surviving children and estimated date of birth from the ship register follows:

Alice Jane Coe

Robert Stanley Coe

William Robertson Coe

George Vernon Coe

Jno Beresford Coe

Margaret F. Coe

Verner C. Coe

After a rough crossing, the Coe family settled in Cinnaminson, New Jersey, east of Philadelphia.