See also
| Name: | Margaret Mary COE |
| Sex: | Female |
| Father: | James COE (1814-1875) |
| Mother: | Maria WREN (1812-1852) |
| Birth | 7 Mar 1845 | Beresford Street Woolwich1 |
| Baptism | 9 Mar 1845 (age 0) | St Mary Magdalene Woolwich1 |
| Occupation | Domestic (Cook); NK | |
| Census | 1871 (age 24 (!)) | Beckenham Kent |
| Kent House Tavern Margaret is listed as a "domestic" working for her brother in his public house. |
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| Census | 1881 (age 36) | Croydon,Surrey |
| Gibsons Hill, Streatham Grove n 1881 Margaret Coe was working as a cook - and listed first out of a staff of 7 - in Frederick Nettlefold's household in Croydon |
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| Census | 1891 (age 41 (!)) | London |
| 105 Lancaster Gate , but ten years later she was further up the social scale cooking for the Baumbach family (the head of the household was a retired East India company merchant) in Lancaster Gate, London |
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| Census | 1901 (age 55) | London |
| 66 Talbot Road Paddington By 1901 Margaret Coe, still unmarried, was working as Assistant in her sister Eliza's Boarding House at 66 Talbot Road Paddington; obviously domestic service had been sufficiently lucrative for them both to have saved up enough of a nest-egg to invest in this joint venture. |
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| Census | 1911 (age 55 (!)) | London |
| 1 Horbury Crescent, Kensington In 1911 the sisters were living in an "apartment house" in the home of John and Flora MacLennan, 1 Horbury Crescent, Notting Hill Gate. |
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| Death | 1 Jan 1917 (age 71) | Tooting Bec Asylum, Tooting, Surrey |
| Spouse | (unknown) | |
| Children | Emily COE (1864-1924) | |
Margaret's birth certificate, registered on 7 March 1845, confirms her given names as Margaret Mary, but the Baptism register of St Mary Magdalene Woolwich on 9 Mar 1845 transcribes her first name as Martha. By the age of 18 Margaret was the unmarried mother of Emily, born on 9 January 1864; her birth certificate omits the name of her father. Little Emily was brought up by her grandfather James and his common law wife Sarah Hadden, while her mother continued to make her living as a domestic servant.
On 1 January 1917 Margaret died at Tooting Bec Asylum, and the following year on 18 July 1918 the London Gazette issued a notice to "all creditors and other persons having claims against the estate of Miss Margaret Mary Coe to contact Messrs. Leader, Plunkett and Leader by 17 September 1918.
| 1 | "Martha Mary (sic) Coe Baptism, 9 Mar 1845, St Mary Magdalene Woolwich". |