Brief Life History of Thomas
Thomas Cooper was born about 1715, in Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He married Abigail Wellman on 16 July 1743, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 10 April 1750, in his hometown, at the age of 36.
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- Thomas Copper, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ranger - death:
- Thos Copper, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a maker and repairer of wooden vessels such as barrels, tubs, buckets, casks, and vats, from Middle English couper, cowper (apparently from Middle Dutch kūper, a derivative of kūp ‘tub, container’, which was borrowed independently into English as coop). The prevalence of the surname, its cognates, and equivalents bears witness to the fact that this was one of the chief specialist trades in the Middle Ages throughout Europe. In North America, the English surname has absorbed some cases of like-sounding cognates from other languages, for example Dutch Kuiper .
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kupfer and Kupper (see Kuper ).
Dutch: occupational name for a buyer or merchant, Middle Dutch coper.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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