When John Cowperthwaite was born in 1602, in Cartmel, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edward Cowperthwaite, was 33 and his mother, Mabel Barrow, was 37. He died in 1604, in his hometown, at the age of 2, and was buried in Cartmel, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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