Cooper of Gt Glen

[Annie65115]

Newspaper Marriage Notices which refer to children of "George Cooper, Gent, Great Glen/Glen Magna"

2 Oct 1824 - Eliza, youngest daughter to a Henry Freeman
8 Jun 1822 - Mary, second daughter to a Mr Harrison
8 Aug 1829 - William, youngest son to an Elizabeth Waldren

I'm looking at the noncon baptism registers (on the Leic FHS CD) and there's no Eliza Cooper with a father George listed at all. Neither, come to that, is  there a Mary or a william!

Perhaps the index is incomplete? Perhaps the family "converted" to non-conformism after the birth of their children? Where were the children born, according to censuses?

[Annie65115]

I've found the baptism of George Cooper of Great Glenn; son of George and Mary Cooper, b 9 Jan 1790 and bapt 13 Feb 1790 (non-con; (presbytarian); bapt in Leicester).

This George's gravestone confirms that he died in 1855 was a Gent, and was the son of George and Mary Cooper.

His parents are also buried at Great Glenn; George Cooper, gent, died 25 July 1831 age 79,and in the same grave, his wife Mary, died 11 March 1825, age 59.

[Annie65115]

Marriage licence in 1796 between George Cooper of Great Glenn and Mary BURGESS of Leicester. George was a farmer and grazier, age 30 years; Mary was 20, and of the parish of St Martin.

Note that one of William and Elizabeth Cooper's children was given the middle name of Burges ---

[Bunnygirl]

Many thanks Annie65115
Yes I have a Mary Burgess Cooper born 1845 Enderby. GRO has mothers maiden name as Waldren.
Will see if I can piece it all together. I need to do the Gerge Cooper Will of 1855 in hopes it gives more names.
Do you know what number CD you have from LRFHS as it may be worth getting one?

Thanks again
Bunnygirl 

[Bunnygirl]

The marriage of Eliza Cooper .It's shown as Elizabeth Cooper
1 October 1824 to Henry Freeman Coleman at St Margarets Leicester
Marriage by license Elizabeth spinster aged 25 Hensy of St Margarets aged 34+ witnesses Edward Chater & George Cooper
Census says Elizabeth born Gt Glen or Glen Magna

Mary's marriage at Great Glen to John Harrison 3 June 1822

Census records state born Gt Glen

Bunnygirl

[Annie65115]

My CD is apparently "CD no.1; Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Indexes to Nonconformist Baptisms 1706 -c.1921 and Burials 1663 - 1978".

I can't see this on the LRFHS website now so maybe it's been discontinued?

I'm happy to do lookups for other Leic board regulars though!

[Annie65115]

There's the will of George Cooper of Great Glen, gentleman, who died in 1798; his gravestone suggests that he was 81 years old. His will names the following:
His son George Cooper - executor
Another son Edward Cooper
Granddaughter Lidea Mary Folwell
Daughter Mary Thornton and her 4 children (unnamed, all under 21)
Grandson George Cooper, the son of George

The 1831 will of George Cooper the Elder, Great Glen,Gentleman, names the following:
Oldest son George Cooper - executor
Youngest son William Cooper (not yet 21 at the time of writing, which was 1825)
Wife Mary Cooper

The 1855 will of George Cooper, gentleman of Great Glen,has the following family members:
Sisters Mary Harrison (wife of John Harrison) and Eliza Coleman
Brother in law Henry Freeman Coleman
Brother William Cooper
He also mentions various friends, a minister, servants; and the children of Mary, Eliza and William, but doesn't name the children.
This was the most verbiose of these wills and I found the most difficult to read; I hope I haven't omitted anyone important.

So this all hangs together nicely with all the findings above.

Of particular interest re your William is the fact that he was under 21 in 1825, so he can't have been the 1799 baptism that you found.

[Annie65115]

Remember that Mary was described as George's 2nd daughter when she married in 1824?

This might be her older sister:

Jane Susanna, eldest daughter of George Cooper, m John Baker Esq, of Bythorn, Huntingdonshire, at Great Glenn on 6 Nov 1817.
The marriage licence gives Jane's age as 25. John was a widower.
Witnesses Edward Chater and Mary Cooper.

(Note again that William and Elizabeth called one of their children Jane Susanna)

[willsy]

I couldn't find baptisms for the older generation but there are also non-conformist bap. for-

Bond Street Independent

all have parents Henry Freeman Coleman and Elizabeth Cooper,
her parents are named only and as George and Mary

Hester Eliza Coleman b. 21 Sep 1827 19 Nov 1827
Henry Freeman George Coleman b 15 Feb 1829 bap. 25 Mar 1829
Mary Evans Coleman b. 9 Jun 1831 bap. 9 Jul 1831
George William Coleman b. 15 Dec 1834 bap. 13 Nov 1835
Eliza Sherrard Coleman b. 19 Jan 1833 and bap. 27 Feb 1833

In the index, what looks to be Henry the elder's bap. parents Henry and Hester, is a brother John Sherrard Coleman