Charlotte Cooper was Samuel’s 2nd daughter, but the first for him and his 2nd wife Elizabeth. She was born on 28 April 1824 and baptised 23 May the same year at St Catherine, Montacute, Somerset.
Since we don’t know anything about Elizabeth before her marriage there are no clues about where the name Charlotte might have come from for their daughter. Perhaps it was her mother’s name, or a sister- hopefully it wasn’t chosen by Samuel to memorialise his first wife.
Not a lot is known about Charlotte’s life either as is often the case with daughters.
She was 17 when the family emigrated to New Zealand and I imagine would have been a great help to her mother on the voyage caring for her younger siblings – the youngest just over a year old.
No marriage or death
records have been located for her although it has been suggested by some
researchers that she may have died about 1857. Three of her siblings named
daughters Charlotte around this time – a clue perhaps ?
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