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Mary Cooper
« on: Tuesday 11 June 19 05:55 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Mary Cooper
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 11 June 19 06:22 BST (UK) »
What is your evidence for date and place of birth?

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Re: Mary Cooper
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 11 June 19 06:38 BST (UK) »
From sources at Family Search

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Re: Mary Cooper
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 11 June 19 07:13 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Mary Cooper
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 11 June 19 09:07 BST (UK) »
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.

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Partridge - North Beds; Northants & Peterborough
Bishop - Bedford; Hunts, Hemingford Grey
Allen - Hunts, Hemingford Abbotts
Clement - Croydon
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Re: Mary Cooper
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 11 June 19 16:55 BST (UK) »
Thank you for your reply. It looks like she might have been born outside of Bedfordshire

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Re: Mary Cooper
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 11 June 19 21:38 BST (UK) »
Might she have been a widow so her maiden name wouldn't have been Cooper?
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Beds:   Cople: Luke/Spencer
            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey/Rook
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey/Rook
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:   Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
Cambs: Bourn: Bowd
            Eltisley: Medlock
            Graveley: Ford/Revell

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Re: Mary Cooper
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 11 June 19 22:46 BST (UK) »
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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Allen - Hunts, Hemingford Abbotts
Clement - Croydon
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Re: Mary Cooper
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 12 June 19 08:10 BST (UK) »
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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