Document F.338 · birth register · transcription: partial
New Jersey return of births, Township of Allamuchy, Warren Co., 1 September 1872 - 1 September 1873, page 465, entries 7-9
- repository
- New Jersey State Archives birth returns, via Ancestry, New Jersey, U.S., Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1711-1878 (coll. 62483), image 004208999_00550 (DGS 4208999)
- date
- 1873
People named
| As written | Role | Identified as | What this document says |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harry | child | Harry Cooper 1873 | birth: Allamuchy Twp, Warren Co., NJ |
| Wm. S. Cooper | father | William Shafer Cooper 1825–1904 | |
| Catherine Cooper | mother | Catherine R (Dennis) Cooper 1834 | |
| Minnie, dau. of R. M. and P. A. Cooper | child | Minnie M Cooper 1872–1902 candidate | |
| J. [H or W]., son of Zach. and S. E. Cooper | child |
What this document records
Header
'Return of Births in the Township of allamuchy County of Warren State of New Jersey, from the 1st day of September 1872 to the 1st day of September 1873'. Page numbers 465 (written twice).
Rows
{False: 7, 'date_of_birth': '[illegible]', 'name': 'Minnie', 'place_of_birth': '" [Allamuchy]', 'sex': '" [Female]', 'parents': 'R. M. and P. A. Cooper', 'occupation': 'Laborer', 'residence': '"', 'time_of_record': '"'}; {False: 8, 'date_of_birth': '[illegible]', 'name': 'Harry', 'place_of_birth': '"', 'sex': 'Male', 'parents': 'Wm. S. and Catherine. Cooper', 'occupation': '"', 'residence': '"', 'time_of_record': '"'}; {False: 9, 'date_of_birth': '[illegible]', 'name': 'J. [H or W].', 'place_of_birth': '"', 'sex': '" [overwritten]', 'parents': 'Zach. and S. E. Cooper', 'occupation': '"', 'residence': '"', 'time_of_record': '"'}
Reading notes
Ancestry indexes Harry's birth as 24 Mar 1873; that date could not be seen on this image. The time-of-record column for these rows is ditto marks under 'July 1[8?] 1873' in row 1. Rows 7 and 9 are other Cooper families (R. M. and P. A.; Zach. and S. E.), not linked here.
Row 9 second initial is contested 2026-10-18
Row 9's child was read J. W. on 2026-10-08 and J. H. on 2026-10-18 — re-read at 7x on a native crop of the 5212-px plate. What is actually there is two faded near-parallel ascenders with a connecting hook and a period; no crossbar survives, and a W's pointed feet are not visible either. Neither reading is safe, so the cell is now recorded as J. [H or W]. rather than silently re-asserted. Row 9's sex cell was also re-read: it is a ditto, but with an overwritten character struck through before it, so the carried-down Male is not clean. Low stakes — the child is unlinked and both parents are unidentified.
The date column is now a third time unreadable 2026-10-18
Third independent attempt, and it should be the last. The date-of-birth column was re-cropped 2026-10-18 at 5x and 7x with ImageOps.autocontrast(cutoff=0.05) — a harder stretch than the 2026-10-14 pass — and rows 7-9's date cells resolve to scattered ink flecks with no letterforms at all, while the row numbers 7 and 9 in the adjacent column come up clean at the same settings. ⇒ The writing did not survive the scan; this is a property of the image, not of the magnification, and no further zoom will recover it. A different capture of the same page (FamilySearch's own copy of DGS 4208999, or the original volume) is the only route to these three dates.