The Coopers of Long Hill

Emma (Orpen) Cooper 1901–1997

Catalog ID p.2254 · Cite this page: njcoopers.com/p/2254/

Emma (Orpen) Cooper was born on 11 Jan 1901. She probably married Fredrick Driscoll Cooper (1921). She died on 5 Apr 1997 in Sussex County Homestead nursing home, Frankford Twp., Sussex Co., New Jersey and was buried at Tranquility Cemetery, Green Twp., Sussex Co., New Jersey.

Also recorded as: Gussie J.473, J.474

Facts

EventDatePlace / detailCertaintySources
birth 11 Jan 1901 certain G.616
residence 1 Apr 1940 Andover, Sussex Co., New Jersey - ED 19-1 sheet 5B, household 117, Main St, rented at $12 certain D.865
residence 1959 Newton, Sussex Co., NJ certain J.160
residence Apr 1997 Frankford Township, Sussex Co., NJ certain J.473
occupation cook at the former Newton Nursing Home certain J.473
death 5 Apr 1997 Sussex County Homestead nursing home, Frankford Twp., Sussex Co., New Jersey certain J.473
burial Tranquility Cemetery, Green Twp., Sussex Co., New Jersey certain J.473, G.616

Family

Parents

Not identified.

Spouses

Children

None recorded.

Family tree

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

Fredrick Driscoll CooperFredrick Driscoll Cooper1894–1954Emma (Orpen) CooperEmma (Orpen) Cooper1901–1997

In the documents

Every published document that names Emma (Orpen) Cooper, in date order, with what that document itself records.

DateDocumentRoleWhat it records
1921 C.159 marriage index
New Jersey State Archives, Index of Marriages in New Jersey 1920–29, BRIDE index, surname range L–O, image 684 of 700 — the typed index page carrying the line f…
 bride
as "Orpen, Emma"
15 Apr 1940 D.358 census population 1940
1940 U.S. census, Andover Boro, Sussex Co., New Jersey, S.D. 7, E.D. 19-1[?], sheet 5 B, lines 72-80
 spouse
as "Emma A"
residence: 15 Apr 1940, Andover Boro, Sussex Co., New Jersey
1 Apr 1940 D.865 federal census
1940 US Federal Census — Andover, Sussex Co., New Jersey, ED 19-1, sheet 5B, household 117: the Fredrick D. Cooper household of nine, closing the sheet.
 spouse
as "" Emma A"
residence: 1 Apr 1940, Andover, Sussex Co., New Jersey
10 Apr 1950 D.359 census population 1950
1950 U.S. census, Green Twp., Sussex Co., New Jersey, E.D. 19-15, sheet 6, lines 1-6
 spouse
as "Emma A"
residence: 10 Apr 1950, Green Twp., Sussex Co., New Jersey

7 further documents not published (they may name living people).

Still unknown, and where we have looked

Searches recorded

ancestry all 2026-10-19 · THE 1940 CENSUS, which at this age is the HOUSEHOLD's record and not this person's. Searched on the father Fredrick Driscoll Cooper;...
Searched for: THE 1940 CENSUS, which at this age is the HOUSEHOLD's record and not this person's. Searched on the father Fredrick Driscoll Cooper; full parameters are recorded once, at Fredrick Driscoll Cooper.
Result: FOUND -> [D.865]: the whole household of NINE at Andover, household 117, Main St, rented at $12. ONE PLATE CLOSED FOUR SEPARATE WORKLIST GAPS -- Jean Kathryn (Cooper) Kilpatrick, Laura Bell (Cooper) Taylor, Elizabeth Louise (Cooper) Maher and Living each carried an independent '1940 census, no search recorded' -- and covered Frederick William Cooper and Gary R Cooper in passing. The lesson is the one the sweep keeps re-learning: a child's census gap is never the child's, it is the household's.
ancestry all 2026-10-19 · HER MARRIAGE, searched from HER side because the groom is unsearchable: 'New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Index, 1901-2016' (coll. 61253),...
Searched for: HER MARRIAGE, searched from HER side because the groom is unsearchable: 'New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Index, 1901-2016' (coll. 61253), ?name=_Orpen&count=50 - surname only, no given name, no year bound: 67 rows statewide 1901-2016, page 1 (50) read; then ?name=Emma_Orpen&count=50 - 6 rows, all read. Also 'New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Records, 1670-1965' (coll. 61376), ?name=_Orpen&count=50 - 18 rows, all read.
Result: FOUND → [C.159]: Orpen · Emma · FC · 52 · 11 15 21 · 8 139 = 15 November 1921, downloaded, filed and read on ratable_stitch.py stitches. Her husband's marriage had been tree-tier only in both directions until now. COLL. 61376 IS A COVERAGE GAP, NOT A NULL - its 18 Orpen rows stop at 1895, so it does not reach 1921 and proves nothing about her. THE LARGER FIND IS THE SUGGESTED-RECORDS PANEL, NOT THE ROW. It offers her in 1905 ('Gussie Orpen'), 1910, 1915 and 1920 - four enumerations BEFORE her marriage, i.e. four chances at the parents this file does not have - plus an SSACI row filed under her MAIDEN name, which normally names both. Two of the four are indexed as 'Emma H *Kin' and 'Emm Orpun': they exist only because the panel surfaced them, and no name search would have.
findagrave 2026-10-11 · Emma Cooper, d. 1997 +/-1, Sussex County, New Jersey.
Searched for: Emma Cooper, d. 1997 +/-1, Sussex County, New Jersey.
Result: Memorial 19493634, Emma A. Orpen Cooper, Tranquility Cemetery, with headstone photograph -> [G.616].
newspapers com 2026-10-11 · SIGNED IN. Cooper Orpen, New Jersey, 1996-1998 (3); Cooper Frankford, New Jersey, 5-12 Apr 1997 (10).
Searched for: SIGNED IN. Cooper Orpen, New Jersey, 1996-1998 (3); Cooper Frankford, New Jersey, 5-12 Apr 1997 (10).
Result: Obituary and death notice, NJ Herald 7 Apr 1997 -> [J.473]; supplement 9 Apr 1997 naming her sisters Savilla Angle, Mary Seely, Harriet Grieshaber and brother Erwin Orpen -> [J.474]. Other hits (NJ Herald 6 Apr p. 35, 9 Apr p. 16, 10 Apr p. 21; Star-Ledger 11-12 Apr; Daily Record 6 Apr) not opened.

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