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Offline eramophla

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Copeland Island - family?
« on: Saturday 31 October 09 06:26 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone know where I can obtain some information on the Copeland family of the Copeland Islands, located off the County Down coast? I am descended from a Copeland family from Donaghadee and could be connected.

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Era
Ireland- Harpur, Copeland, Longridge, Hayes
Devon- Underdown, Pennington, Cox, Bishop, Harding
Cornwall- Teague, Rowe, Long, Bray, Trounson, James, Bosanko, Jewell, Pollard, Rundle, Mutton, Hand, Floyd, Rodda
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Re: Copeland Island - family?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 31 October 09 09:26 GMT (UK) »
Have ypou tried searching anywhere yet?
Lots of Copelands here-
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/SURNAMES/C/CooCop.htm
Try PRONI e-catalogue- www.proni.gov.uk
And googling will probably bring up more information.
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!

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Re: Copeland Island - family?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 31 October 09 22:44 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the websites. They look like they might be useful. I have been googling and browsing forums so far, without much luck. I will keep on hunting, but if anyone finds anything in the meantime, I would greatly appreciate it.

Era
Ireland- Harpur, Copeland, Longridge, Hayes
Devon- Underdown, Pennington, Cox, Bishop, Harding
Cornwall- Teague, Rowe, Long, Bray, Trounson, James, Bosanko, Jewell, Pollard, Rundle, Mutton, Hand, Floyd, Rodda
Suffolk- Mills, Bird
Essex- Mills, Kent, Ruffell
Glamorgan, Wales- Morgan, David, Jones, Thomas, Watkins, Morris

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Re: Copeland Island - family?
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 03 November 09 22:27 GMT (UK) »
Ive had a look at the 1911 census where there  are a few Copelands

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

but Im not sure if any will be specifically your relations

Good luck  (by the way I spoke to my Mother who hails from the Donaghadee area and she doesn't remember any Copeland actually living on the isle)
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Re: Copeland Island - family?
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 04 November 09 04:25 GMT (UK) »
Hi Era

With regards to the reply from Gopher , like her mother I too hail from Donaghadee and have never heard of a Copeland family from the island.

I was always told the island was named after a Norman family called De Coupland.

A survey carried out in 1732 by John Sloane states there were four tenants on the Big Island(Copeland) by the name of James Brown, Andrew Agnew, Alexander Agnew and James McCalder.
In the middle of the eighteenth century the islands where purchased by Mr David Ker of Portavoe and about this time the tenants of the island changed, the McCalders and Agnews left and the Cleggs, Emmersons and Wrights arrived.  These families where able to buy their holdings under the Land Act and their descendants lived on the islands until the 1940s.
The above details are to be found in the book by W.G. Pollock ' Six Miles from Bangor , The Story Of Donaghadee"

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Strain, Black, Miskimmin, Patton- Donaghadee area.
Woods, Kearney, Sweeney- Kircubbin & Portaferry area.
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Re: Copeland Island - family?
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 04 November 09 07:42 GMT (UK) »
Thank you to all for this information. The person from whom I found out about Copelands on Copeland Islands must have their information wrong - I will have to check. Even if there were Copelands on the islands at any stage, it is probably to far back for any connection to be made.

I appreciate all you assistance.

Regards,

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Ireland- Harpur, Copeland, Longridge, Hayes
Devon- Underdown, Pennington, Cox, Bishop, Harding
Cornwall- Teague, Rowe, Long, Bray, Trounson, James, Bosanko, Jewell, Pollard, Rundle, Mutton, Hand, Floyd, Rodda
Suffolk- Mills, Bird
Essex- Mills, Kent, Ruffell
Glamorgan, Wales- Morgan, David, Jones, Thomas, Watkins, Morris

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Re: Copeland Island - family?
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 31 March 10 13:20 BST (UK) »
my great grandfather was a Matthew Clegg- I have quiet a lot of information and in 1911 there where still a few familes living on the Island.
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Re: Copeland Island - family?
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 01 April 10 08:21 BST (UK) »
Thanks for that Mark. Considering the previous information I have been given, I don't imagine that any of them had the surname of Copeland?
Era
Ireland- Harpur, Copeland, Longridge, Hayes
Devon- Underdown, Pennington, Cox, Bishop, Harding
Cornwall- Teague, Rowe, Long, Bray, Trounson, James, Bosanko, Jewell, Pollard, Rundle, Mutton, Hand, Floyd, Rodda
Suffolk- Mills, Bird
Essex- Mills, Kent, Ruffell
Glamorgan, Wales- Morgan, David, Jones, Thomas, Watkins, Morris