Margaret (Lafferty) Cooper 1743–1825

Catalog ID p.269 · Cite this page: njcoopers.com/p/269/

Margaret (Lafferty) Cooper was born in 1743, probably the daughter of Bryan Lefferty. She married George Cooper (1770). She died in 1825. Five children are recorded.

Facts

Event	Date	Place / detail	Certainty	Sources
birth	1743		certain	I.130
death	1825		certain	I.130

Family

Parents

Father Bryan Lefferty probable I.22

Spouses

George Cooper 1745–1801
married 1770
I.130

Children

Bryan Lafferty Cooper 1775–1798
Mary Cooper 1778–1794
John G Cooper 1780–1822
Fanny Cooper 1782–1801
Daniel C Cooper ?–1818

Family tree

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In the documents

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

Date	Document	Role
1801	G.211 find a grave memorial Find a Grave memorial 7633052 - George Cooper, Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey	spouse as "Margaret Lafferty Cooper"
1818	G.122 find a grave memorial Find a Grave memorial 9336855 - Daniel C. Cooper, Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio	parent as "Margaret Lafferty Cooper"
1822	G.108 find a grave memorial Find a Grave memorial 7633056 - John G. Cooper, Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey	parent as "Margaret Lafferty Cooper"
1932	I.130 published genealogy Catherine Bigham Brode, Ludlow-Ross Genealogy: The Ancestors of Lydia Ludlow and Ogden Ross and Their Descendants, With Allied Families (privately printed, Wall…	spouse as "Margaret Lafferty"
1999	I.22 published genealogy Sheldon Forbes Craddock, Craddock, Kinder, Rogers, and Sheldon Families (Incline Village NV, privately published 1999) — Chart IX Biographies, book pp. 220–222:…	child as "Margaret Lefferty"

Still unknown, and where we have looked

Birthplace not established.
Burial not yet found.

Documents

I.130 Catherine Bigham Brode, Ludlow-Ross Genealogy: The Ancestors of Lydia Ludlow and Ogden Ross and Their Descendants, With Allied Families (privately printed, Walla Walla WA, 1932) — the Cooper, Runyon and Ludlow chapters at book pp. 68-89, from the NYPL copy digitised by Google Books.
G.108 Find a Grave memorial 7633056 - John G. Cooper, Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey
G.122 Find a Grave memorial 9336855 - Daniel C. Cooper, Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
G.211 Find a Grave memorial 7633052 - George Cooper, Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey
I.159 Wikipedia article 'Daniel C. Cooper' (en.wikipedia.org, oldid=1334667627) — full biography of Daniel C. Cooper of Dayton OH (21 Nov 1773 – 13 Jul 1818); names parents George Cooper × Margaret Lafferty + grandfather Daniel Cooper b. at sea ~1695; rich Dayton-founding bio; cites 5 secondary sources back to 1882. = the most consolidated published bio of him.
L.4 Hand-drawn Family Tree: Descendants of Daniel Cooper and Grace Runyon (1695–1895)
I.259 Snell, History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey (1881), 1,130 PDF pages - the twelve per-township sections headed CEMETERIES or CEMETERIES AND BURIAL-PLACES (PDF pp. 361, 413, 434, 513, 534, 574, 600, 809, 944, 994-995, 1058), with the Lebanon Township section (PDF p. 513 = book p. 448) and the Bethlehem Township section (PDF p. 534) transcribed; plus the township-boundary evidence at PDF pp. 172, 184 and 445.
A.225 New Jersey Archives, First Series, Vol. XXX (Calendar of Wills, Vol. II, 1730-1750), PDF p. 318 - the will of William Macdonel of Somerset Co., yeoman, dated 19 Sept. 1746 and proved 13 Oct. 1746 (Lib. D, p. 411), with the executors' renunciation of 3 Oct. 1746, the widow's administration bond of 14 Oct. 1746 (Lib. D, p. 413) and the inventory of 3 Oct. 1746.
G.726 Find a Grave searches, Lamington Presbyterian Church Cemetery (cemetery 1520607), Lamington, Bedminster Township, Somerset County, New Jersey: surnames Gaston (21), Lafferty (1) and Cooper (none), the 1740-1820 death window, and memorials 8444585 and 54623639 parsed
A.226 New Jersey Archives, First Series - two abstracts from the Calendar of Wills: Vol. XXXIV (Wills V, 1771-1780) PDF p. 200, the will of Joseph Gaston of Bernardstown, Somerset Co., dated 31 March 1777 with its inventory of 11 April 1777 (Lib. 18, p. 577); and Vol. XXXIII (Wills IV, 1761-1770) PDF p. 246, the intestate administration of Bryan Leferty of Somerset Co., granted 20 July 1769 to his widow Mary Leferty (Lib. K, p. 143).