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Descendants of Robert Cooper

Generation No. 1

1. ROBERT² COOPER (ROBERT¹) was born June 15, 1645 in Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire (?), and died Bet. 1689 - 1693 in At Sea (?). He married (1) UNKNOWN. He married (2) UNKNOWN. He married (3) ELIZABETH GISLINGHAM June 24, 1673 in St. Bartholomews the Great, London, or St. Vedast, daughter of ----------- GISLINGHAM and JOANE ------------. She was born Abt. 1654.

Notes for ROBERT COOPER:
Source: Cooper Family History 1730-1982 with allied lines, Thomas Ray Bryan & Christine Cooper Ellenberg.
There is a Reuben Cooper next to a John Cooper in the 1774 tax list of Lunenburg County, Virginia. This is John Cooper's son and James Cooper's grandson.

The oldest form of the name was apparently Coupar(d), Anglo-Norman French for "cooper, locksmith, minter." The earliest record of the name is Richard Le Cupere in 1176. Others:

Alan le Cupere, col Camb. 1273
Henry le Cupper, co. Notts.
Richard le Cupare, co. Oxf.
Jordan le Cupere, co. Oxf.
Willelmus Couper, 1379; P. t. Yorks. p. 5
Robrt Cupper, bailiff of Yarmouth, 1425; FF.xi.324.
1607 married William Cooper and Winifred Cope, St. Michael, Cornhill, p. 18
London, 275, 4; New York, 213.

Family Search (Mormon) Submitter: MILTON R OUZTS, 706 WEST 3200 SOUTH, BOUNTIFUL UT USA 84010
Submission: AF96-109410

Perhaps related to the William Cooper who patented 142 acres in Lower Norfolk Co., June 5 1678.

Probably the Robert Cooper who patented 200 acres forfeited by Francis Skipper in Lower Norfolk Co., April 20, 1682.

Name: Robert Cooper
Date: Jul 9,
Location: Isle Of Wight
Notes: This probate record was extracted from microfilmed copies of the original Will Book.
Remarks: Thomas Cullen. Dying intestate, administration requested by Thomas Sykes, Robert Lawrence and Robert Cooper.
Description: Administrator
Book date: 2-73
Prove date: Oct 20, 1689

England: Canterbury - Marriage Licences issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1679-1694
1687.
County: General
Country: England
14 May 1687 Robert Cooper, of St Giles in the Fields, Midd., Gent., Widr, abt 42, & Mrs Lydia Harvey, of the same, Wid., abt 46; at St Giles afsd.

The age and localities correspond to a Robert filius Robert Cowper baptized in STratford on Avon, jun 15 1645 (Paris Registers of Baptisms, 1558-1652).

This Robert Cooper was a ship's surgeon and died in 1691:
England: Canterbury - Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1686-1693
Year Folio
County: General
Country: England
Cooper, Robert, chirurgeon, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx. ship "Kempthorne" 1691 159

Quaker Immigrants "Welsh Settlers" Manuscript by Rowland Ellis:
In the book, "Welsh Settlers Of Pennsylvania", are found genealogical notes and lineage charts relating to nearly 300 families, in addition to many unmarried persons, who removed from Wales to Pennsylvania, principally between 1682-1700, representing a total of about 2,000 individuals of the first generation in the Province of Pennsylvania, bearing the surnames :

Andrews, Arthur, Bevan, (Royal descent), Cadwalader, Cook, Cooper, Corbet, (Chandler), Corne, David, Davis, Davies, Edward (s), Ellis (Royaldescent), Evan (s), Foulke, Gibbons, Griffith, Hardyman, Harry, Haverd, Hayes, Hent, Howell, Hugh, Hughes, Humphreys, Iddings, James, Jarmon,Jenkins, John, Jones, Kinsey, Lewis (sub Ellis Lewis & Wm Lewis), Lloyd, Martin, Matthews, Meridith, Miles, Moore, Morgan, Morris, Mortimer,Oliver, Orme, Owen, Painter, Pardo, Parry, Peter, Philips, Powell, Price, Pritchard, Pugh, Rees, Rhydderch, Rhytherrach, Rice, Richard (s), Rider,Roberts, Rothers, Rowland, Thomas, Tudor, Samuel, Scourfield, Smith, Walker, Walter, Watkins, Whelan, Williams, Wisdom, Wynn, and others.

Delaware was considered part of William Penn's colony until the time of the Revolution. Welsh Quakers were the main settlers in the northern part, called Welsh Neck.

In June 1701, sixteen Baptists from the counties of Pembroke, and Caermarthen, South Wales, sailed in the ship "James and Mary" from Milford-haven, Wales. They landed in Philadelphia 8 Sept. 1701. This was the beginning of the settlement of the Welsh Tract, south of Newar, Delaware by Baptists (Hist. of the Welsh Tract Baptist Church Pencader Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, by D. V. Spangler: Signs of the Times, Inc., Route 5, Box 332F, Danville, Va., pp. 2.3). See also "His. of the St. of Del.," by Henry C. Conrad, Wilmington, Del., 1908 III, 1049.

A William Cooper was among the signers of a 1740 Petition to Obtain a Charter of Incorporation of the City of Willingtown (Wilmington)

Source: A History of the Original Settlements on The Delaware, Benjamin Ferris, Wilson
& Herald, 107 Market Street, Wilmington, 1846, pages 206-208.

May be related to the William Cooper of Hertfordshire who became one of the early settlers of Burlington, N.J. and who was also Quaker, or alternatively to William and Elizabeth Laurence Cooper of Warwickshire. The former was probably also a relative of the James Cooper who married two Burrows sisters and settled in Philadelphia. All were probably relatives of the Coopers who produced Lord Anthony Ashley-Cooper.

Apparently the same as Robert Cooper, goldsmith, married to Elizabeth Gislingham (Rousse) in London, 1673
England: Canterbury - The Harleian Society. Allegations for Marriage Licences Issued by the Vicar: General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1669 to 1679. Volume 34.
1673.
County: General
Country: England
24 Jun 1673 Robert Cooper, of St Peter's Cheape, Lond., Cit. & Goldsmith, Bachr, abt 26, & Elizabeth Gislingham, of St Vedast alias Foster's, Lond., Spr, abt 19, with consent of her mother Joane Rouse alias Gislingham; at St Bartholomew's the Great, or St Vedast afsd.

There is also a Robert Cooper, gentleman, of Lubnum (Lubbenham), who married Mary Watts in 1680:

Warwick: Weddington - Parish Registers, 1663-1812
Burialls.
Weddington Register, Co. Warwick.
Anno Dom. 1680.
County: Warwick
Country: England
Robert Cooper, of Lubnum, in ye county of Leicester, gent., & Mary, ye Daughter of Mr Henry Watts, of Weddington, were marry'd 25 Mar 1680.

Others of the name:
Norfolk: - Register of Marriages, 1552-1837
Marriages
Marriages at Grimston, 1552 to 1837.
Volume 1. (resumed).
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Robert Cooper & Ann Newman 24 Oct 1669

A Robert Cooper, perhaps a son, married Katherine Wakefield in 1698:

Warwick: Stratford on Avon - Parish Registers of Marriages, 1558-1812
Mariages.
Mariages.
In Large Register.
County: Warwick
Country: England
28 Aug 1698 Robard Cooper too Kathren Wakfeild.

A Robert Cooper and Hannah Caldecott were wed in 1713:

Warwick: Stratford on Avon - Parish Registers of Marriages, 1558-1812
Mariages.
Mariages.
Weddings.
County: Warwick
Country: England
16 Jun 1713 Robert Cooper & Hannah Caldecott.

Evidently had a brother or cousin James who was a London merchant, 1674, mentioned in Port Books; Port of London; Controller: Imports to London of Denizen (English) Merchants.

More About ROBERT COOPER:
Fact: AFN: 1NJF-42X
Land: April 20, 1682, Patented land in Lower Norfolk Co. forfeited by Francis Skipper
Migration: 1701, Son James emigrated from Wales to Delaware with Wm. Cooper (?)
Note: These may be two different Robert Coopers conflated, one a goldsmith, one a surgeon
Occupation: 1673, Citizen & Goldsmith, of St. Peters Cheape, London

More About ELIZABETH GISLINGHAM:
Fact: Name may derive from Gist

More About ROBERT COOPER and ELIZABETH GISLINGHAM:
Marriage: June 24, 1673, St. Bartholomews the Great, London, or St. Vedast

Child of ROBERT COOPER and UNKNOWN is:

WILLIAM³ COOPER, b. Abt. 1669, Warwickshire, England.

Child of ROBERT COOPER and UNKNOWN is:

ii.

ROBERT³ COOPER, b. July 20, 1690, St. Katherines by the Tower, London; d. September 10, 1714, Isle of Wight, Virginia.

Notes for ROBERT COOPER:
Middlesex: St. Katherine by the Tower - Parish Registers, 1666-1695
Baptisms
Baptisms
Parts 4 and 5
County: Middlesex
Country: England
20 Jul 1690 Robert Cooper s. of Robert

Legatee of Sarah Currer 1698, "cousin Robert Cooper, orphan of Robert Cooper"

May be the same as James Cooper (who may have been known as James Robert Cooper), and the inventory is his father's.

More About ROBERT COOPER:
Fact: 1698, Legatee of Sarah Currer 1698, "cousin Robert Cooper, orphan of Robert Cooper"
Will: September 10, 1714, Inventory, Isle of Wight Co., Va.
Witness: August 09, 1708, Will of Thomas Sykes

Children of ROBERT COOPER and ELIZABETH GISLINGHAM are:

3.	iii.		JAMES³ COOPER, b. Abt. 1675, Prob. London or Warwickshire; d. 1734, Southwark, Surry Co., Va..
4.	iv.		BENJAMIN "O" COOPER, b. Abt. 1691; d. 1761, Granville Co., N.C..

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