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Thomas Cooper was a 16th century English bishop, lexicographer, and writer.
William Cowper was a popular nature poet of the 18th century.
James Fenimore Cooper was an early 19th century American writer, best known for The Last of the Mohicans.
Duff Cooper was a British diplomat, Cabinet member, and writer in the first half of the 20th century. His wife Lady Diana Cooper was a well-known English socialite.
Gary Cooper was a well-known American actor perhaps best known for his performance in High Noon.
Henry Cooper was British heavyweight boxing champion in the 1960's.
Alice Cooper, an American rock singer, was born Vincent Damon Furnier.
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Cooper
is an English occupational name for a maker and repairer of wooden
vessels such as barrels, tubs, buckets, casks, and vats. It comes
from the Middle English couper, cowper (and also from
the Middle Dutch kuper, a derivative of kup ‘tub’,
‘container’, which was borrowed independently into English as coop).
Cooper may in fact also be an anglicized form of the Dutch Kuiper or Coper (meaning a buyer or
merchant).
The prevalence of this surname bears witness to the fact that it was one of the chief specialist trades in the Middle Ages in Europe.
Coopers in the village of Bracondale in Norfolk have been traced back to the early 1600's. From this family came - via King William IV and his mistress Dorothea Jordan - Sir Alfred Cooper, a fashionable doctor in Victorian society, and the diplomat and writer Duff Cooper.
Frank Cooper was the 19th century Oxford shopkeeper whose wife Sarah devised the formula for Frank Cooper's Oxford Marmalade.
Cooper and Cowper are the two main spellings of the surname. William Cowper, the 18th century poet, insisted that his name should be pronounced "Cooper."
Ireland. There was a notable Anglo Irish Cooper family descended from the Royalist Austin Cooper. He had moved his family in 1661 from their farm in Byfleet, Surrey to a purchased estate in county Wicklow. A descendant was the early 20th century adventurer and raconteur Captain Dick Cooper.
Another Cooper, Edward Cooper who had fought in Ireland under Cromwell, took possession of the Marktree estate in Sligo in 1659.
America. John Cooper from Buckinghamshire came to America with his family on the Hopewell in 1635. He was a member of the party who set off from New England in 1640 to start a new colony at Southampton on Long Island. Another John Cooper, this time from Suffolk, was deacon at the First Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1668 until his death in 1691. His home, built there in 1681, has been preserved as a museum.
It was either James or William Cooper from Stratford upon Avon who, arriving in America around 1680, was the forebear of the writer James Fenimore Cooper. Peter Cooper, the American inventor and industrialist, was born in New York City in 1791 of mixed Dutch, English and Huguenot ancestry (going back to Obadiah and Cornelia Cooper of Fishkill, New York). Daniel Cooper, who laid out the town of Dayton, Ohio in 1795, was also of Dutch ancestry.
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The prevalence of this surname bears witness to the fact that it was one of the chief specialist trades in the Middle Ages in Europe.
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- The Cooper Genealogy. Family tree of James Fenimore Cooper.
- Cooper Basin Coopers. Coopers from Georgia to Florida.
- Cooper Surname DNA Project. Cooper DNA
Coopers in the village of Bracondale in Norfolk have been traced back to the early 1600's. From this family came - via King William IV and his mistress Dorothea Jordan - Sir Alfred Cooper, a fashionable doctor in Victorian society, and the diplomat and writer Duff Cooper.
Frank Cooper was the 19th century Oxford shopkeeper whose wife Sarah devised the formula for Frank Cooper's Oxford Marmalade.
Cooper and Cowper are the two main spellings of the surname. William Cowper, the 18th century poet, insisted that his name should be pronounced "Cooper."
Ireland. There was a notable Anglo Irish Cooper family descended from the Royalist Austin Cooper. He had moved his family in 1661 from their farm in Byfleet, Surrey to a purchased estate in county Wicklow. A descendant was the early 20th century adventurer and raconteur Captain Dick Cooper.
Another Cooper, Edward Cooper who had fought in Ireland under Cromwell, took possession of the Marktree estate in Sligo in 1659.
America. John Cooper from Buckinghamshire came to America with his family on the Hopewell in 1635. He was a member of the party who set off from New England in 1640 to start a new colony at Southampton on Long Island. Another John Cooper, this time from Suffolk, was deacon at the First Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1668 until his death in 1691. His home, built there in 1681, has been preserved as a museum.
It was either James or William Cooper from Stratford upon Avon who, arriving in America around 1680, was the forebear of the writer James Fenimore Cooper. Peter Cooper, the American inventor and industrialist, was born in New York City in 1791 of mixed Dutch, English and Huguenot ancestry (going back to Obadiah and Cornelia Cooper of Fishkill, New York). Daniel Cooper, who laid out the town of Dayton, Ohio in 1795, was also of Dutch ancestry.
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Thomas Cooper was a 16th century English bishop, lexicographer, and writer.
William Cowper was a popular nature poet of the 18th century.
James Fenimore Cooper was an early 19th century American writer, best known for The Last of the Mohicans.
Duff Cooper was a British diplomat, Cabinet member, and writer in the first half of the 20th century. His wife Lady Diana Cooper was a well-known English socialite.
Gary Cooper was a well-known American actor perhaps best known for his performance in High Noon.
Henry Cooper was British heavyweight boxing champion in the 1960's.
Alice Cooper, an American rock singer, was born Vincent Damon Furnier.
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