'Cooper06'
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Families covered: Cooper of Burbach (Burbage), Cooper of Leicester, Cowper of Sapcote, Cooper (Cowper) of Stoney Stanton
| Nichols identifies the arms of this family as "Gules, on a chevron between three lions passant guardant Or, as many mascles of the field" and reports, of the following William, that his "ancestors came out of Cheshire or Lancashire". | |||||||||||||||
| William Cowper of Sapcote (d bbefore 1558) | |||||||||||||||
| m. Agnes Cowper (d 1558) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | William Cowper of Stoney Stanton (d 1587) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Denston (d 1618, dau of Willaiam Denston of West Sutton) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Jeffrey Cowper (b/d 1560) | ||||||||||||||
| B. | John Cowper (b 1563, a 1619) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Gilbert (d 1613, dau of William Gilbert of Stanton) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | William Cowper (b 1595, d before 1637)) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth | |||||||||||||||
| a. | John Cowper (b 07.09.1621, d 31.03.1697) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sarah (d 1680) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | William Cooper (b 1651, d 1717) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Susanna (d 1704) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | John Cooper (b 1680, dsp 1706) | ||||||||||||||
| (B) | William Cooper of Stoney Stanton (b 1684, d 05.09.1760) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Ship (b 1695-6, d 05.09.1744) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Susanna Cooper (b 1714) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Fisher of Leicester (alderman) | |||||||||||||||
| (ii)+ | other issue (dsp) - John, William, Thomas | ||||||||||||||
| (C) | Henry Cooper of Nuneaton (b 1685) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Liptrott of Nun-Eaton | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | William Cooper of Leicester (b 1714-5, dsp 04.02.1807)) | ||||||||||||||
| (ii) | John Cooper of Leicester | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Fisher of Leicester | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Henry Cooper (vicar of Soham in Cambridgeshire), 2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Fox of Dunton | |||||||||||||||
| (b) | Thomas Fisher Cooper | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Hall | |||||||||||||||
| (c) | James Cooper of Burbach | ||||||||||||||
| m. Fanny Cooper (niece of Sir Joseph Mawbey, Bart) @1@ below | |||||||||||||||
| (d) | William Cooper of Burbach (d 1804, vicar of Chertsey in Surrey) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Martha Cooper of Burbach (niece of Sir Joseph Mawbey, Bart) @2@ below | |||||||||||||||
| ((1))+ | issue - John Mawbey, Anne Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||
| (e)+ | other issue - John (d unm?), Elizabeth Mary | ||||||||||||||
| (iii) | James Cooper of Leicester (alderman) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Taylor of Billesdon | |||||||||||||||
| (a)+ | issue (dsp) - Thomas, Mary, Elizabeth, Anne (a 1811, d unm?) | ||||||||||||||
| (iv) | Henry Cooper of Leicester | ||||||||||||||
| m. Martha Wilson of Snareston | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Henry Wilson Cooper of Leicester (a 1811) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Cragg of Thureaston | |||||||||||||||
| ((1))+ | issue - Henry, William, Mary, Anne | ||||||||||||||
| (b) | William Cooper of Leicester | ||||||||||||||
| m. Charlotte Lomas (dau of John Lomas of Leicester) | |||||||||||||||
| (c)+ | other issue (a 1811) - Sarah, Martha, Mary | ||||||||||||||
| (v)+ | other issue - Alice, Susanna, Anne | ||||||||||||||
| (D) | Charles Cooper of Leicester (b 1690) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Abbot of Galby | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Charles Cooper (dsp 1787, cleric) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Duckett of Little Ashby | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | John Cooper (b 1734-5, d 09.05.1793, cleric) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Dawes of Broughton Astley | |||||||||||||||
| (a)+ | issue (a 1811, d unm?) - John of Stoney Stanton (rector of Newton Bromshold), Mary, Anne | ||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Susanna Cooper | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Franks | |||||||||||||||
| (a)+ | issue - Susanna, Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||
| (E) | ?? Cooper | ||||||||||||||
| The connection to the following John is speculative but it seems likely that he was closely connected to this family. | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | John Cooper of Burbage possibly fits here | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Mawbey (sister of Sir Joseph Mawbey, 1st Bart) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Fanny Cooper possibly of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. James Cooper of Burbach @1@ above | |||||||||||||||
| (b) | Martha Cooper 'of Burbach' possibly of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. Rev. William Cooper of Burbach @2@ above | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Gilbert Cowper (b 1597, d 1618) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Fryer (dau of Robert Fryer of Wigston-with-two-Steeples) | |||||||||||||||
| iii.+ | other issue (a 1619) - John (b c1599, a 1630, "chief constable"), Edmund (b c1615), Matthias (b c1610), Alice, Grace | ||||||||||||||
| C. | William Cowper | ||||||||||||||
| m. Joan Dawson (dau of William Dawson of Walton) | |||||||||||||||
| i.+ | issue (a 1619) - Daniel (b c1595), William (b c1603), Edmund (b c1609), Geoffrey (b c1615), Joan (b c1607), Emmet (b c1610), Grave (b c1614) | ||||||||||||||
| D. | Edmund Cowper of Sapcote (b c1577, a 1619) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jane Staresmore (dau of William Staresmore of Frolesworth) | |||||||||||||||
| i.+ | issue (a 1619) - William (b c1600), John (b c1601), George (b c1611), Francis (b c1612), Samuel (b c1616), Elizabeth (b c1602), Christian (b c1606), Katharine, Mary, Lydia | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester' (John Nichols, vol 4, part 2, 1811, 'Pedigree of Cowper or Cooper of Sapcote and Stoney Stanton', p974)
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