Ellen Knowles was born in St Albans 4 Sept 1837, daughter of Charles Goodwin Knowles and Elizabeth Radland. She married Charles Cooper, b 1835 son of Robert Cooper and Martha Graystone, on 27 July 1865 at Dallinghoo, Suffolk. Charles died in Charsfield in 1882 and Ellen died in Slough 1926. They had five children: Eliza, Clara, Alfred Robert, Edwin Charles and Ellen Martha

Charles Goodwin Knowles married Elizabeth Radland at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London on 29 May 1832.

Robert Cooper,1795-1873, married Martha Graystone, 1798-1878, at Dallinghoo 19th October 1819.