Showing posts with label Cooper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cooper. Show all posts
Wednesday, 26 August 2026

V - Viola Grace Cooper

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Viola was born in Waikiwi, Southland, New Zealand in 1880. She was the ninth child of ten. Her parents were married in Hobart, Tasmania in 1...
Thursday, 31 December 2020

George Henry Cooper

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George Henry Cooper was the youngest son of Samuel Cooper &   Elizabeth Hill. He was born in Wellington, New Zealand in March 1843, eigh...
Tuesday, 22 December 2020

Frederick Cooper

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Frederick Cooper was the last of Samuel and Elizabeth’s children to be born in England before they emigrated to New Zealand. He was noted as...
Saturday, 31 October 2020

James Cooper

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James Cooper was Samuel and Elizabeth’s 8 th child and 5 th son. If you’ve been keeping track you will be thinking I can’t count. There we...
Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Elizabeth Cooper

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Elizabeth Cooper, Betsy, was 10 years old when she and her siblings arrived in Wellington with their parents. She was baptised at St Catheri...

Mary Anne Cooper

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Samuel Cooper had two daughters named Mary Anne. The first was his second child with Charlotte Hann. She was baptised at St Catherine Mont...
Monday, 19 October 2020

Charlotte Cooper

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Charlotte Cooper was Samuel’s 2 nd daughter, but the first for him and his 2 nd wife Elizabeth. She was born on 28 April 1824 and baptised...

Thomas Cooper

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Thomas Cooper was born in Montacute in 1826. He was baptised on 30 July that year but no birthdate was recorded in the register. Thomas wa...
Sunday, 18 October 2020

John Cooper

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John Cooper, my 2 x great grandfather, was born in Montacute, Somerset most likely in the summer of 1822. His baptism is recorded in the chu...
Monday, 5 October 2020

Charles Cooper

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Charles Cooper was the first child of my 3 x great grandfather Samuel Cooper and his 1 st wife Charlotte Hann. He was baptised on 11 Octobe...
Monday, 28 September 2020

Samuel Cooper

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Samuel Cooper, my 3 x great grandfather, was probably born in Montacute, Somerset or a nearby parish in about 1789, no baptism record has be...
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Tuesday, 25 August 2020

U - Uriah

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Uriah Cooper has been sitting in my tree for some time. I feel that he fits. The fact that makes some people less convinced is his supposed ...
Friday, 10 August 2018

Searching for Mary Ann and remembering her

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They say that when we are gone we live on, as long as people still speak our names or tell our stories. I reckon my ancestors are all pretty...
Friday, 11 July 2014

My roots run deep in Somerset

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For the past week we've been staying with some distant relatives - 6th cousin distant ! That means having to go back to the mid 1700...
Tuesday, 8 January 2013

A weekend to explore

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All these discoveries I have been making, to help build a better picture of my forebears lives have also made me get myself organised to tak...
Tuesday, 20 November 2012

An Inheritance Lost ?

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Totally on a tangent this week - I have become entangled with the family of my VC winning cuz as I try to unravel the connections and find w...
Tuesday, 13 November 2012

Remembrance Day

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Private Thomas Cooke. Source: www.anzacday.org.au Sunday was Armistice Day and I was reminded of the story I heard at the Dawn Service...