The Coakley Family Portraits
 American & Carribean Schools, early 19th century.

The miniatures are:
 Sara Ribaud Coakley (b.1760)
 Henry Coakley (1787-1840)
 Eliza Woods Coakley (d. c.1820)
 
The photographs are:
 Eliza Juliana Coakley (1819-1898)
 George Washington Coakley (1814-1893)
 Henry Coakley (photograph of the miniature)
 Eliza Woods Coakley (photograph of the miniature)

Sara Ribaud Coakley (b.1760) of St. Croix, married Benjamin Coakley (1750-1787) of Stafford Co. Virginia in 1786.  Their son, Henry was born in St. Croix in 1787, the same year that his father was lost at sea off the coast of South Carolina.  Henry married Eliza Woods in 1811.  They had four children.  George Washington Coakley was born in 1814 in St. Johns, West Indies.  His younger sister, Eliza Juliana Coakley, "Sister Eliza," was born in 1819.  Eliza Woods Coakley died shortly thereafter.  Henry married twice afterwards.   Son George Washington Coakley  married Isabella Hoe Godfrey in 1861.  They had 12 children.  George W. Coakley, who graduated from Rutgers in 1836, was a prominent mathematician and astronomer. He was professor of mathematics at St. James College, Maryland from 1846-1860, and at the University of the City of New York (New York University) from 1860-1893.
 
The portrait of Sara Ribaud Coakley is attributed to Cephas Thompson, circa 1805.  Thompson was working in Baltimore and Alexandria in 1805-1806.  Stafford, Virginia where Sara's husband, Benjamin had been born and his family remained, is between the two cities.
 
Sara Ribaud Coakley is set in the original ‘rolled gold' locket frame, the reverse with aperture containing plaited hair below the cut gold initials SRC.   2 3/8 inches high.
 
Henry Coakley is set in the original ‘rolled gold' pendant frame.    2 13/16 inches high.
 
Eliza Woods Coakley is set in the original wood frame with gilt metal mount.   2 ½ inches high.