Document L.119 · transcription: verbatim
Ancestry Family Tree, 'Joseph Cooper 1773-1829' (tree 179446987, person 292344701122, accessed 27 May 2026)
L.119: Ancestry Family Tree, 'Joseph Cooper 1773-1829' (tree 179446987, person 292344701122, accessed 27 May 2026)Transcription and notes
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Identification
Ancestry Family Tree printout. Same tree as L.118 Mercy Cooper (tree ID 179446987). Subject's Ancestry person ID 292344701122. URL: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/179446987/person/292344701122/facts (accessed 5/27/26 9:30 AM).
Epistemic grade: Ancestry Family Tree — low confidence. ** Internal inconsistency: tree appears to CONFLATE two separate Joseph Coopers (= one born 1773 Haxey Lincs; one buried 1829 Coal Run OH per G.191 which says b. 1777 + wife Mary Thompson, NOT Mary Oxley). Treat parentage of children Mercy + others as unproven** until reconciled.
Data from the document — Joseph Cooper [verbatim, structured]
Vital statistics
- Birth: 28 Jun 1773 • Haxey Parish, England [1 source] [= Haxey, Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire — though some sources put it in Nottinghamshire boundary area]
- Baptism: 16 Nov 1784 • Shropshire, England [1 source] — age 11 at baptism is unusual; also Shropshire is geographically distant from Haxey Lincolnshire
- Death: 21 Sep 1829 • Morgan County, Ohio, USA [1 source]
- Burial: Coal Run, Washington Co., Ohio, USA [1 source = G.191 Find a Grave Memorial 72898159] — but G.191 shows wife Mary Thompson NOT Mary Oxley; the tree's identification of this burial as the tree-Joseph is suspect
Parents
- Father: William Cooper Jr. 1725-1795 d. 17 May 1795 Haxey, Lincolnshire, England
- Mother: Mary Snowden 1738-1803 d. 18 May 1803 Haxey, Lincolnshire, England
Marriage
- 1803 • Rotherham [Yorkshire West Riding] [1 source]
- Wife: Mary Oxley 1782-1881 d. 11 Mar 1881 Yorkshire England
Children (per tree)
- Mercy Cooper 1797-1883 [[L.118]] [[p.500]] — Mercy b. 1797 = 6 YEARS BEFORE the 1803 Mary Oxley marriage; CANNOT be Joseph × Mary Oxley's biological daughter. Either (a) Mercy was Joseph's daughter by an earlier wife/relationship; (b) the tree's identification of this Mercy as Joseph's daughter is WRONG; (c) marriage date 1803 is wrong.
- John Cooper 1806-1891 b. 4 Dec 1806 Maidenshire England
- Rebecca Cooper b. ~1817 Greasbrough Yorkshire England
- Everett Cooper 1823-1866 b. 18 Oct 1823 Birstall Yorkshire England
- Thomas Cooper b. ~1824 Greasbrough Yorkshire England
Residence
- 1805 • Ohio, United States [1 source] — chronologically problematic given children b. Yorkshire England 1806-1824 (= would require Ohio→England→Ohio round trip)
Ancestry source list (cited for this person)
- England, Pallot's Marriage Index, 1780-1837
- England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
- England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973
- Manchester, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930
- Ohio, U.S., Tax Records, 1800-1850
- Shropshire, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records, 1538-1812
- U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current
- U.S., Indexed Early Land Ownership and Township Plats, 1785-1898
- West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935
- Findagrave
Internal inconsistencies + reconciliation hypotheses
| Hypothesis | Evidence FOR | Evidence AGAINST |
|---|---|---|
| A: Joseph Cooper 1773 Haxey = Joseph Cooper buried Coal Run OH 1829 | Same death date (21 Sep 1829); same OH location | G.191 Find A Grave attests b. 1777 (4-yr discrepancy); G.191 wife = Mary Thompson NOT Mary Oxley; G.191 son = William M. Cooper NOT John/Everett/Thomas |
| B: Two different Joseph Coopers, both d. 21 Sep 1829 OH | Possible coincidence | Same date + same county = unusual coincidence |
| C: Tree's Joseph 1773 = different individual from G.191 Joseph 1777-1829 | Reconciles birth-year + wife discrepancies | Then where is the 1773 Haxey Joseph buried? Ohio Tax Records 1800-1850 attestation would need re-examination |
| D: Mercy 1797 NJ is NOT this Joseph's daughter | Mercy b. 1797 NJ vs tree-Joseph b. 1773 Haxey England + in England 1803-1824 | Tree shows clear Mercy-Joseph linkage |
Most plausible reading: Mercy Cooper 1797 NJ is NOT the daughter of this Lincolnshire/Yorkshire Joseph Cooper. The Ancestry tree-maker likely linked them in error. Mercy's actual father is a separate NJ-resident Joseph Cooper unrelated to the Haxey/Yorkshire family.
Comparison vs Chambers I.138 "Early Germans of New Jersey"
NO Joseph Cooper b. 1773 (or 1777) of English origin in Chambers: - Chambers's COOPER section names John 1594, John 2d 1625, James 1650, Nathan I (m. Mary Miller), Nathan II 1725, Daniel of Passaic Valley 1695, Samuel of Newark 1737, John of Newark 1732 — no Joseph of this era + origin. - Chambers's fam.2 child [[p.470 Joseph Henry Cooper 1760-1843]] is a DIFFERENT individual (Nathan II × Mehitabel Seward's son; not English-born; not buried Ohio). - This English-origin Joseph Cooper is NOT a Chambers individual.
Follow-ups
- Pull Washington Co. Ohio probate / cemetery records 1829 for Joseph Cooper — primary-source disambiguates Joseph-Mary-Oxley vs Joseph-Mary-Thompson
- Search Haxey Lincolnshire parish records 1773 for Joseph Cooper baptism + 1803 for Mary Oxley marriage
- Search Rotherham Yorkshire parish records 1803 for Cooper × Oxley marriage
- NJ records 1797 for any Joseph Cooper = candidate biological father of Mercy