For ancestry, genealogy research & heraldic merchandise, please visit: https://coadb.com/which-coat-of-arms-is-mine Email: info@coadb.com Phone: 785-324-2529 11AM - 9PM (ET) SURNAME MEANING English occupational surname denoting a maker or repairer of wooden vessels, such as barrels, tubs, buckets, casks, and vats, from Middle English word couper or cowper, which derived from the Middle Ditch word kūp, meaning “tub container” EARLY BEARERS Robert le Cupere – Sussex – c. 1176 Salomone de Cupir – Scotland – 1245 Christian Cowper – Berwick – 1275 John Cupar – Aberdeen – 1281 Symon Coupare – Berwick – 1296 KNIGHTHOODS Sir Maurice Cooper of Hertfordshire, knighted in 1603 Sir Charles Cooper (1795-1887) was a politician and the first Chief Justice of South Australia Sir Henry Cooper (1807–1891), mayor of Kingston-upon-Hall, medical doctor Sir John Cooper – 1603 Sir Richard Cooper of Surrey, sergeant porter – 1603 Sir Roger Cooper of Thurgarton – 1624 Sir William Cooper of Cathrincork – 1641 Sir Edmund Cooper, lord mayor of York – 1641 Sir Edward Cooper – 1645 Sir George Cooper, judge at Madras – 1816 NOBLE TITLES HELD The Cooper baronetcy of Pawlett in the County of Somerset was created in the Baronetage of England in 1622 for Sir John Cooper of Rockbourne. He was succeeded by his son, Anthony Ashley Cooper, who was elevated to the peerage as Earl of Shaftesbury in 1672. The Cooper baronetcy of the City of Dublin was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on in 1758 for Sir William Cooper. The Cooper baronetcy of Gadebridge in the County of Hertford was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1821 for the noted and surgeon and anatomist, Sir Astley Paston Cooper. The Cooper baronetcy of Walcot in the County of Somerset was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1828 for Sir John Cooper, Member of Parliament for Dartmouth The Cooper baronetcy of Woollahra in New South Wales was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1863 for the Australian politician Sir Daniel Cooper. LANDED GENTRY Cooper of Markree Castle, co. Sligo, Ireland Cooper of Cooper's Hill, Queen's County, Ireland Cooper of Killenure Castle, co. Tipperary, Ireland Cooper of Toddington Manor, co. Bedford, England Cooper of Failford, co. Ayr, Scotland NOTABLES Charlotte Cooper (1870-1966) was an English female tennis player who won five singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships and in 1900 became Olympic champion. Edward Joshua Cooper (1798-1863) was an Irish landowner, politician, and astronomer, from Markree Castle in County Sligo William Cooper (1754-1809) was an American merchant, land speculator and developer, the founder of Cooperstown, New York Samuel Cooper (1725-1783) was a Congregational minister in Boston, Massachusetts James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune Samuel Cooper (1780-1848) was an English surgeon and medical writer. He published a Surgical Dictionary which went through many editions. EARLY SETTLERS John Cooper – Virginia – 1618 Justinian Cooper – Virginia – 1618 Humility Cooper – Massachusetts – 1620 John Cooper – Virginia – 1623 Walter Cooper – Virginia – 1623 Francis Cooper – Nova Scotia – 1749 George Cooper – Nova Scotia – 1749 James Cooper – Nova Scotia – 1749

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