When Obedience Cooper was born on 25 July 1712, in Newhaven Towne, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Cooper Sr, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth Smith, was 36. She married Joshua Hotchkiss III on 18 December 1732, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 14 December 1771, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 59.
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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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