Anna (Antrim) Cooper 1795

Catalog ID p.1811 · Cite this page: njcoopers.com/p/1811/

Anna (Antrim) Cooper was probably born between 1795 and 1800 in New Jersey. She married John Cooper. Six children are recorded.

Facts

Event	Date	Place / detail	Certainty	Sources
birth	between 1795 and 1800	New Jersey	probable	D.4, D.470, L.132
death			certain	F.278

Family

Parents

Not identified.

Spouses

John Cooper 1786–1867 D.4, L.132

Children

Roderick Byanton Cooper 1838–1889
Samuel Cooper 1832–1888
James S. Cooper about 1827 possible L.132
Sarah J. (Cooper) Seidner 1829–1846 probable L.132, L.133
Jane Cooper about 1844 probable D.470, L.132
John Sidener Cooper about 1846 D.4, D.470

Family tree

Solid lines and outlines: certain. Dashed: probable or weaker. Open the full tree (four generations)

Still unknown, and where we have looked

Parents not identified.
Death not yet found. 1 search recorded:

ancestry all 2026-10-24 · Collection 62483 (New Jersey, U.S., Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1711-1878 - the NJSA township returns, the same series as...

Searched for: Collection 62483 (New Jersey, U.S., Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1711-1878 - the NJSA township returns, the same series as [F.278]). Three searches: (a) surname Antrim, no given name, no date - 189 records, first 50 read; (b) Ann* Cooper born 1797 +/- 10 - 6 records, ALL read; (c) surname Cooper, died 1867, 1868 and 1869 +/- 2 - 5, 21 and 92 records, read for Warren County rows.

Result: (a) EVERY New Jersey Antrim in the series whose row carries a place is in BURLINGTON, CAMDEN or OCEAN county - southern New Jersey, about eighty miles from Independence. None in Warren, Sussex or Morris. (b) Six rows = three records, each indexed twice: Anna Cooper d. 17 Mar 1854 Somerset; Ann R. Cooper d. 11 Apr 1851 Gloucester; Ann Cooper d. 8 May 1874 Passaic. NONE IN WARREN. Caveat: this search requires an indexed birth year, and many rows in this collection have none, so a row that recorded only her age would fall outside it. (c) The ONLY Warren County Cooper death indexed 1867-1871 is Elsy Cooper, 20 Jul 1869, Hope = Elsy Cooper, already held as [F.285]. No Anna.
Burial not yet found. 2 searches recorded:

findagrave 2026-10-03 · Anna Cooper, b. 1797 +/- 3, Warren County, New Jersey (12 matches - location not honoured).

Searched for: Anna Cooper, b. 1797 +/- 3, Warren County, New Jersey (12 matches - location not honoured).

Result: NULL: no Warren Co., NJ Anna Cooper on page 1 (Louisiana, Ohio, Maine, Ireland and unplaced memorials).

findagrave 2026-10-24 · THE SURNAME, NOT THE WOMAN, and with the location filter PROVEN TO BIND. Surname Antrim, no given name, no year, in each of the three...

Searched for: THE SURNAME, NOT THE WOMAN, and with the location filter PROVEN TO BIND. Surname Antrim, no given name, no year, in each of the three counties she could plausibly have come from: Warren Co., NJ (locationId=county_1927), Sussex Co., NJ (county_1925) and Morris Co., NJ (county_1920). The ids were taken from the site's own autocomplete and each was control-tested - Cooper in county_1925 returns 136 memorials, every one of them in a Sussex Co., NJ cemetery. (link)

Result: WARREN: ZERO. SUSSEX: ZERO. MORRIS: three, and all three are 20th-century burials in one Catholic cemetery (Robert 1885-1958, Margaret M. 1887-1958 and Gloria A. d. 2001, all at Gate of Heaven, East Hanover) - not a rural family of her period. THE CONTROL MATTERS HERE: a first attempt with a guessed locationId=state_31 returned 71 Antrims and EVERY ONE WAS IN NEBRASKA while the page still printed "New Jersey, USA" as the filter chip, because the chip echoes the text submitted and not the place resolved. A Find a Grave location null is worth nothing until the id has been control-tested.

Other searches recorded

familysearch tree 2026-10-03 · Anna Antrim, b. 1793-1802, spouse surname Cooper; then Anna Cooper, b. 1793-1802, spouse John Cooper, residence Warren, New Jersey.

Searched for: Anna Antrim, b. 1793-1802, spouse surname Cooper; then Anna Cooper, b. 1793-1802, spouse John Cooper, residence Warren, New Jersey.

Result: NULL: no profile for her on page 1 of either search.

ancestry all 2026-10-03 · Anna Cooper, b. 1797 +/- 5 New Jersey, spouse John Cooper, residence Warren Co. NJ (13,545 results; the residence filter mapped wrongly).

Searched for: Anna Cooper, b. 1797 +/- 5 New Jersey, spouse John Cooper, residence Warren Co. NJ (13,545 results; the residence filter mapped wrongly).

Result: Only her known censuses: 1850 Independence (Anna) = [D.4] and 1860 Independence (Ann, abt 1800) = [D.470]. No death or burial record.

newspapers com 2026-10-03 · SIGNED IN. "Anna Cooper" OR "Ann Cooper" Independence, New Jersey papers, Jun 1860 - Dec 1870.

Searched for: SIGNED IN. "Anna Cooper" OR "Ann Cooper" Independence, New Jersey papers, Jun 1860 - Dec 1870.

Result: NULL (no matches).

genealogybank 2026-10-03 · SIGNED IN (chris_2535). Anna Cooper, keyword Warren, New Jersey papers, Jun 1860 - Dec 1870 (10 results).

Searched for: SIGNED IN (chris_2535). Anna Cooper, keyword Warren, New Jersey papers, Jun 1860 - Dec 1870 (10 results).

Result: All 10 are West Jersey Press (Camden), 1866 and 1869 - a southern-NJ paper; not opened (the Camden line is fam.3, not hers).

familysearch records 2026-10-24 · (a) 1870 US census (collection filter applied, so the result is FILTERED and not merely ranked): surname Cooper, given name Ann~, born...

Searched for: (a) 1870 US census (collection filter applied, so the result is FILTERED and not merely ranked): surname Cooper, given name Ann~, born 1790-1805, residence New Jersey. (b) Surname Cooper, death place Warren, New Jersey, 1860-1885, record type death.

Result: (a) EXACTLY FOUR women in the whole of New Jersey: Pilesgrove Twp, Salem (b. Maryland); Washington Twp, Camden (b. 1798); Anna S., Rockaway, Morris (b. 1804); Mary A., Harrington Twp, Bergen (b. 1804). NONE IN WARREN COUNTY. She is not in the 1870 census as a Cooper. (b) The Warren Co. Cooper deaths in "New Jersey, Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988" for that quarter-century are Precilla (Greenwich 1877), Mary (Greenwich 1875), Amilia and Nelson B. (Oxford 1872), an unnamed Cooper (Oxford 1871), Casper (Oxford 1883), Bertha (Oxford 1884), Mary Ann (Blairstown 1882), Fannie E. (Phillipsburg 1885), an unnamed Phillipsburg infant 1878-79, and Elsy (Hope 1868). NO ANNA, AND NOT ONE OF THEM IS INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP.

ancestry all 2026-10-25 · THE MARRIAGE, from BOTH sides, in a collection neither party had been searched in. Collection 61376, "New Jersey, U.S., Marriage...

Searched for: THE MARRIAGE, from BOTH sides, in a collection neither party had been searched in. Collection 61376, "New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Records, 1670-1965" - the New Jersey State Archives' county marriage records, the series behind [C.115] / [C.117]. (a) HER SURNAME, with no given name and no place: Antrim, marriage 1795-1850 - 72 rows over two pages, ALL 72 READ. The engine's fuzzy matching pulled in the spelling variants Antram, Antrem and Antrix as well, which is the point of searching the surname bare. (b) HIS NAME: given John, surname Cooper, marriage 1805-1835 - 105 rows, all read. Recorded in full on John Cooper. (link)

Result: NULL FOR THE MARRIAGE, AND A THIRD INDEPENDENT SOURCE SAYING THE SAME THING ABOUT THE SURNAME. (a) ALL 72 Antrim/Antram/Antrem/Antrix marriages in New Jersey 1795-1850 are in BURLINGTON, GLOUCESTER, MERCER (Trenton), MONMOUTH, Woodbury or Medford - southern and central New Jersey, without a single exception. NOT ONE is in Sussex, Warren or Morris County, and NOT ONE ANTRIM OF EITHER SEX MARRIED A COOPER. The recurring families are Caleb x Martha Antrim (1802), the Bunting, Rogers, Haines, Reeve, Kemble and Cox connections - a Quaker-belt cousinhood, which is what [[fam.3]] territory looks like. (b) No John Cooper married anywhere in Sussex or Warren County in that window - see John Cooper. WHAT THIS ADDS. It is the THIRD statewide source to place every New Jersey Antrim in the south: Find a Grave by county (2026-10-24, control-tested), collection 62483 (2026-10-24) and now the marriage series. The three are independent of one another, and each was run from the SURNAME side rather than from her given name. IT IS STILL NOT A REFUTATION, for the reasons already in this file - she may not have been born in New Jersey at all, and a marriage that was never returned leaves nothing to find. But "Antrim" now fails to appear in the one record type that would have to carry it.

Documents

D.470 1860 US Federal Census, Independence Twp, Warren Co., NJ - the John Cooper household (John 70 labourer, Ann 60, and 4 children).
D.4 1850 US Federal Census, Independence Township, Warren Co., NJ (enumerated Aug 1850) — the four-Cooper cluster in adjacent dwellings 236-239 (the Israel, John, Joseph, and Robert Cooper households, 18 persons).
D.565 1870 US Federal Census, Independence Twp, Warren Co., NJ, page 36[?] - the RODERICK COOPER household (dwelling 287 / family 302): Roderick 31 day labourer, Rosetta C 25, and three children - plus his elder brother SAMUEL COOPER, 38, enumerated in the household and marked "Idiot" in the disability column. Roderick's age here is one of THREE independent primary sources putting his birth at ~1838, against the 1850 census's outlying "8".
L.132 Ancestry Grimm Family Tree (tree 63528288) — Roderick Byanton Cooper (1838–1889) facts page [partial]
A.107 Will of John Cooper of Independence Twp., Warren Co., N.J. — Warren Book of Wills p. 185; made 16 January 1867, proved 19 February 1867. The whole estate goes to one son in trust to maintain another.
F.278 New Jersey, Return of Deaths in the Township of Independence, County of Warren, 1 May 1866 – 1 May 1867, printed page 589 — fourteen deaths, including the entry for John Cooper, aged 80.
F.388 New Jersey, Return of Deaths in the Township of Independence, County of Warren, 1 May 1869 to 1 May 1870, printed page 328 - eight deaths, certified by F. C. Files, Town Clerk, from the list of Robert L. Garrison, Assessor. NJSA Birth, Marriage and Death Records 1711-1878, volume AO-AP (Deaths, Atlantic-Warren Co., 1870), Ancestry image group 004210798, image 784 of 807.