Cooper, John (abt1840-1884)

Family

John was born abt1840 at Wramplingham, Norfolk, to parents John, a hawker (1851), and Susannah.

Census returns identify the following occupations for John.

• 1851 agricultural labourer
• 1861 baker’s servant
• 1871 PM minister
• 1881 harness maker

He married Sarah Cox (1839-1913) in the summer of 1867 at Battle, Sussex. Census returns identify six children.

• Sarah Jane Susan (1868-1947) – a nurse (1911)
• Elliott Hephzibah (1870-1937) – married William George Lawrence, a salesman for market gardener (1911), in 1898
• John Reeve (1871-1951) – a bootmaker & repairer (1911)
• William Henry (b1872) – a greengrocer & fruiter (1901)
• Frederick James (b1876) – a sadler & harness maker (1901)
• Arthur (b1879) – a carpenter (1901)

John died on 26 February 1884 at Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Sarah worked as a laundress after John died. She died at Wimbledon, Surrey, at the home of her daughter Elliott.

Circuits

• 1862 Bagshot
• 1864 Diss
• 1866 Maldon
• 1867 Portadown
• 1869 Grassington
• 1871 Penrith
• 1875 Margate
• 1876 Ashford
• 1880 disappears

References

W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers