Eleanor Stokes, the wife of Liverpool coachmaker Charles Stokes (c.1824 – 1919), was born Eleanor Jane Mason c.1835 in Hanley, Staffordshire. Her father, a carpenter, Benjamin Mason Esq, lived in Seaford House, Seaford, in Sussex. Charles' career as a coachmaker may have required him to traverse England for some reason, because records of the Wesleyan Chapel in Brighton show his marriage on 4 August 1866 to Eleanor Jane Mason. The marriage was announced in the Wrexham Advertiser, because Charles Stokes had been born in Wrexham. Eleanor's father Benjamin had been married to an Ann Mason. There are no known records of when Ann died, but records show that Benjamin later married someone called Caroline. Eleanor's husband Charles had parents who both lived in Wrexham - John Stokes (born c.1784), son of Edward Stokes, a bricksetter who died in 1828; and Mary Phoenix (born 28 February 1789), daughter of James Phoenix and Elizabeth Price. Eleanor herself had relatives in England - an Uncle James Henshaw and his wife Mary, who lived in Dewsbury and later Stourbridge. James was a travelling preacher, a New Connection Methodist minister, and likely a Non-Conformist. Eleanor moved with Charles to 35 Kings Mills Road, Wrexham, named Hope Villa. There, she and her husband enjoyed their retirement until their deaths just six days apart - first Charles on February 14 1919, and then Eleanor Jane Stokes on February 20, 1919. Research by Annette Edwards.