When Bathsheba Cowperthwaite was born about 1707, her father, - John Cowperthwaite Sr., was 40 and her mother, - Sarah Adams, was 40. She married Joseph Dunlap in 1727, in Gloucester, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died in 1772, in New Jersey, British Colonial America, at the age of 66.
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English (Lancashire and Westmorland): habitational name from Copperthwaite in North Yorkshire, which is named with Middle English coupere ‘maker of wooden buckets and tubs’ + thweit ‘clearing’ (from Old Norse thveit).
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