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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Bedfordshire => Topic started by: sjhollands on Tuesday 11 June 19 05:55 BST (UK)
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Seeking information on the parents, grandparents of my 6th Great-Grandmother, MARY COOPER b. 1724 Luton Bedfordshire. She eventually married FANCIS HOW
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What is your evidence for date and place of birth?
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From sources at Family Search
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I can only find record of her marriage to Francis How in Luton in 1740. Nothing giving her date/place of birth/ baptism.
I notice what appears to be their first child was Susannah, baptised May 1741. This suggests to me that Francis might the Francis How , baptised 5 March 1714, Luton, son of Thomas and Susanna
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What evidence have you got of her birth year/place ???
Have you got her year of death/age at death ?
As per the Beds FHS Surnames Index CD there is no baptism of a Mary Cooper in 1724 (+/- 5 years) at Luton or any places around there.
Cheers John
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Thank you for your reply. It looks like she might have been born outside of Bedfordshire
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Might she have been a widow so her maiden name wouldn't have been Cooper?
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Good thinking.... Well if she was born 1724 and married in 1740/41 she'd be only 16/17 at this 2nd marriage --- so how old was she at the first marriage ?
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I have yet to see anything to justify the assertion that she was born in (a) Luton in (b) 1724. Her place of marriage is a useful pointer, but where did the date come from? It cannot, surely, be a complete figment of a fertile imagination?
Just a bit of blue sky thinking.
William Cooper married Mary Squire 21 October 1739. Luton. Mary's first marriage?
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Just a bit of blue sky thinking.
William Cooper married Mary Squire 21 October 1739. Luton. Mary's first marriage?
A William & Mary Cooper baptised daughter Mary on 2nd Dec 1739 at Luton followed by daughter Martha on 4th April 1742 - so perhaps not
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I have yet to see anything to justify the assertion that she was born in (a) Luton in (b) 1724.
There's a public tree on Ancestry that suggest she was born c.1724 in Luton but it has no more details for her... However it does suggest Francis How was baptised Luton on 16 May 1722 son of Francis & Jane How, and that Francis senior married Jane Mallard at Luton on 2 Mar 1714. Both these facts are confirmed by the Luton PR transcript.
But there was another Francis baptised 24 Dec 1714, son of Thomas & Susannah How.
Also there is another Francis How marrying in Luton on 20 Sept 1754 to Mary Ebbs
Baptisms of children to Francis & Mary How in Luton
19/05/1741 Susannah
22/05/1743 Mary
10/03/1744 John
15/03/1746 Sarah
23/04/1749 Judith
08/09/1751 Elizabeth
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08/02/1756 Francis buried 21/02/1756
I'd hazard a guess that the first 6 are from Francis & Mary Cooper & the last one from Mary Ebbs.
Also for information to anyone interested...
Jane How wife of Francis buried 27/02/1747
Susannah How, widow buried 24/01/1759
Francis How buried 25/09/1761
Mary How wife of Francis of workhouse/pesthouse buried 09/05/1777
Mary How wife of Francis buried 27/09/1780
Francis How 'the bellman' buried 24/02/1782
Francis How of the workhouse buried 10/02/1783
As to which of these is your Francis & Mary ??? I will leave to you !
Cheers John
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Thank you for the additional information which I found quite interesting. This will definitely add to the information that I have on this line of my family