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My Thoughts
Life is but a fleeting existencebe happy - enjoy it to the full
but always remember that to
enjoy YOUR life most,
make OTHERS happy
They will return the happiness
and the world will be
more beautiful for it !
When your time comes
to leave this world
leave a smile on the
face of everyone you have touched
and say only "Goodnight" to your
Friends and Lovers
The Cooper family has been seated in Great Britain from before the twelth century. The family first became prominent officially and a member of the nobility when Simon Cooper became Sheriff of London in 1310. The family has been known from that time as members of the Landed Gentry, bearing Arms
Simon Cooper was appointed Sheriff of London in the
fourth year of the reign of King Edward II (1307-1327). He was acknowledged ancestor
of the great and widespread family of the name in the British Isles. His son Robert Cooper
became groom of the bed chamber to King Henry V (1413-1422).
Descending down through several generations, various
members of the family held high positions in official life in Great Britiain. Sir
John Cooper was the member of Parliament for the Borough of Whitechurch, Hamshire in 1586.
One of his daughters married Robert Baker, envoy of King James to the Spanish throne. His
son, John, was created a Baronet, July 4, 1622. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Anthony
Ashley and, through her, acquired practically all of the vast estates of the Ashley
family.
Their son: Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper was the author and member of Parliament who succeeded in passing the law giving the right of Habeus Corpus in England. He became Lord High Chancellor of England during the reign of King Charles (1625-1649). He was one of the ablest generals against Cromwell. His descendant is the Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury. The family obtained the large estates in Ireland of confiscated lands granted by Cromwell about 1653. The estates are near Belfast.
...Ann Ashley, heir to the vast lands of the Ashley
family dating back to Henry III (1216-1272), married Sir John Cooper, later Baronet of
Rockbourne. The son of Anne Ashley and Sir John Cooper was Anthony Ashley Cooper, usually
known as "Lord Ashley, the first Earl of Shaftesbury." The Oxford Dictionary
sums him up, "...Shaftesbury was undoubtedly the most eminent politician of his time;
Burnet declares that he never knew any man equal to him in the art of governing
parties." His brother George had a son named James Cooper, who went to America
in 1681, settling in Philadelphia, where he had eight children.
The Eldridge (Eldred) Family is a very ancient English Family, and one of only a few
English Families that can trace their ancestry back to the early
Saxon settlers from the European mainland. Although today members of the Family are
found in England, America, Canada, the West Indies, South Africa and Australia, records of
the family reach for more than 12 centuries back into the past.
Numbers of Eldreds are named in the Doomsday Book of William the Conqueror, compiled in
1086 A.D., and others are named in records here and there during the following centuries.
The oldest record that can be authentically connected to living members of the Family, is the death record of one John Eldred, of Corby, Lincolnshire, England. The will of John Eldred was written in Latin and is filed at Bury St. Edmonds. It was dated 17 Jan 1489 and was proven April 9, 1489. John's parentage is unknown and details concerning his life are limited to data extracted from his will. It seems likely that the elderly John was living with one of his children at the time of his death. They had moved from Corby to Knettishall, a little hamlet in the very northwest corner of Suffolk County, England, a distance of some 60 miles, which was a substantial trek in those days. The reason for the move is unknown. John's will gives his age as 'well past the year of man by the roods of Books'. This means that he was more than 70 and would place his birth sometime before 1419. Four sons and two daughters are named in the will, but not a wife, whose name is unknown. She had probably died earlier. Some of his grandchildren lived in New Buckenham, Norfolk. Later generations lived in Ipswich, Norfolk, and still later generations lived in London.
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