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Thank you for your help, I have that he became bankrupt and his wife lived in Burnham whilst he and his son lived in Wembdon. I simply cannot work out where they all went after that!! I have a worldwide subscription on Ancestry but cant seem to track them all down,

I'm inclined to go along with this - that these are two different William COOPERs.  In 1881 Alma COOPER was lodging in Burnham on Sea whilst William & Sidney were still in Wembdon but the whole family seems to disappear after that and the Bankrupcy announcement in the London Gazette.  Did they emigrate?

There was an announcement in the Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 21 April 1898 as follows:

DYER - SARGENT — April 19, at Wadham-street Chapel, Weston-super-Mare, the Rev. T.  Longhurst, William Dyer, of Manor House, Weston to May, eldest daughter the late John Sargent of Bath.

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Dear Pat, Please would you offer my email address to Diana, as I have information about William Dyer which she will find very interesting.

With regard to his second marriage to May Sargent, what is the source, please, of the wedding taking place at Wadham St. Baptist Church?

Many thanks,  Derrick Norton