Cooper

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conge of Cooper & Marguerite 1.4.1802 / 23.3.1805 call on Morgan with Philips adv Cooper / 30.10.1805 Cooper at Joseph Johnson's / 31.8.1806 Cooper at Philips / 17.4.1807 again / 1.6.1808 call on Cooper with M(ary) J(ane) / 9.12.1809 call on T Cooper / 29.1.1810 call on Theobald & Ward adv Cooper / 20.3.1810 call on Cooper, OSSH / 22.3.1810 call on Cooper / 14.9.1810 M (from Cooper) / 26.10.1810 call on Cooper, bb / 21.11.1810 call on Theobald & Cooper / 23.11.1810 call on Cooper, S S H, & Ward / 14.5.1811 call on Ward & Cooper / 9.8.1811 seek Cooper / 3.11.1813 call on Cooper & Place / 20.11.1813 M(ary) J(ane) calls on Cooper / 27.11.1813 call on Cooper & Place / 24.12.1814 C(harles) C(lairmont) from Cooper / 1.4.1815 call on Cooper / 24.10.1815 call on Cooper & Barber / 6.1.1816 call on Barber & Cooper / 18.6.1816 call on Cooper, bb / 23.8.1816 call on Cooper & Theobald / 30.8.1816 mrs Cooper of Cheltenham dines & sleeps / 19.6.1817 write to A Cooper / 24.12.1817 mrs Cooper & E Collins dine / 10.12.1818 call on Cooper / 9.3.1818 again / 19.5.1818 again / 10.1.1821 Cooper tragn at Aldis's / 9.7.1822 call on Cooper & Barber / 19.8.1822 again / 2.1.1823 again / 17.8.1824 again / 31.12.1824 again / 2.8.1826 Cooper at Aldis's / 16.8.1827 mrs & miss Cooper at Aldis's / 24.6.1828 meet Kenney & Cooper, DL / 3.11.1831 call on C P Cooper / 4.11.1831 again / 5.11.1831 again / 7.11.1831 call on C P Cooper, explain / 26.1.1833 Coopers at Aldis's

For the first entry above see my entry for Margaret & Lucas. The entries above are all those Cooper entries which I don't think referred to Thomas Abthorpe Cooper (qv) or his relatives, or to James Fenimore Cooper. In the second entry above, in 1805, Morgan has been coded to Dr Thomas Morgan of the Red Cross Library, but I think it was more likely William Morgan DNB 1750-1833 because his assistant actuary at the Society for Equitable Assurances was Thomas Cooper, and Godwin went to Morgan's with Richard Phillips, then two days later on 27.3.1805 called on Phillips and then EAO (Eqitable Assurance Office?).  A Short Account of the Society was published as early as 1776 with the names of Morgan & Cooper. (There was also one edition where the date of publication was written as 1713, obviously in error, and the names of Morgan & Cooper were at the foot of a meeting of the Court of Directors in 1771, though Morgan didn't start there until 1774). This Thomas Cooper may have been a relative of Thomas Cooper DNB 1759-1839, who lived at Bolton, Lancs before he went to America in 1794 (see my entry for Cooper, Thomas in SCI dataset), because the will proved PCC 5.2.1838 of Thomas Cooper of Bolton le Moors, Lancs said he was formerly of the Society for Equitable Assurances London. The will mentioned his wife Sarah. no children, a sister and a nephew. This person may also have been the T Cooper of 1809 (especially as Godwin called on Equitable four days later), but the Cooper at Richard Phillips DNB 1767-1840 publisher in 1806 and 1807 was perhaps more likely Samuel Cooper DNB 1780-1848 surgeon whose First Lines of Surgery was published by Phillips in 1807. The 1805 entry at Johnson's and the call of 1808 by Godwin & his wife were perhaps the surgeon as well. Thomas Abthorpe Cooper was in America from 1796 until Jan 1803 then again from Nov 1804 till July 1810. From 1810 to 1824 the main Cooper was probably William Cooper whose will PCC 1833 described him as a broker of Old South Sea House, London. He can be identified by OSSH, SSH, bb (for bill broker), and by adjacent calls on Ward (qv), Theobald (known by his first entry 16.6.1809 to have been a bill-broker), Francis Place DNB 1771-1854, and Barber (Stephen Barber broker of 7, Cowper's Court, Cornhill from 1814). While Thomas Abthorpe Cooper was in England from about July 1810 to Feb 1811 (he arrived 28.3.1811 at New York) there were two entries above that were certainly William Cooper (bb & SSH) and one call next to Theobald on 21.11.1810 which was probably him, though the call by Cooper on 22.11.1810 was probably Thomas Abthorpe Cooper, the bill broker probably never called on Godwin. Another Cooper appeared at Aldis's in 1821, 1826 and 1833, identified the first time as Cooper tragn (tragedian) and was probably John Cooper DNB 1793-1870. The Mrs & Miss Cooper of 1827 at Aldis's were perhaps his wife whom he married in 1825, and a sister or illegitimate daughter. The meet Cooper, DL of 24.6.1828, coded in GD website to Thomas Abthorpe Cooper, was probably John Cooper as well. DL generally stood in Godwin's diary for Drury Lane Theatre where John Cooper had first acted in London. Though I don't have a date for Thomas Abthorpe Cooper's return to America, his last previous appearance in the diary was on 3.3.1828, followed by three entries for James Fenimore Cooper, so I expect Thomas A Cooper had already returned to America. One more Cooper was four entries in 1831 all identified as C P Cooper, which was very likely Charles Purton Cooper DNB 1793-1873.

Three other entries that I haven't dealt with were Mrs Cooper of Cheltenham in 1816, write to A Cooper in 1817 and Mrs Cooper & E Collins (wrongly transcribed in GD website as E Colfins) dine in 1817. The A Cooper written to may have been a child of Thomas A Cooper in America. A Mrs Cooper kept a school at Charlton House, nr Cheltenham (Jacksons Oxford Journal 17.1.1818). Mrs Cooper of the Priory was leaving Cheltenham (Morning Post 24.5.1823)