Carl Orpen Cooper 1930–1977

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.

Result: FOUND - AND PAGE 1 CARRIED THREE OF THIS FAMILY'S MARRIAGES AT ONCE. (1) 'Carl O Cooper | Nov 1977 | North Haledon, Passaic | Evelyn M Handler | certificate 46226' -> opened, image downloaded, filed, read on three ratable_stitch.py stitches = [C.162]. The row reads HANDLER | EVELYN | M | COOPER | CARL | O | 46226 | 1630 | 11/77. THE MARRIAGE LASTED WEEKS. 11/77 is month-only; he died 8 December 1977 [J.157]. ⇒ Between one and five weeks. The obituary's 'about two weeks before his death' was family report; it is now bounded by a record. AND SHE IS INDEXED UNDER TWO SURNAMES IN TWO DIFFERENT VOLUMES - HANDLER (H-O) and FORBES (A-G, Ancestry record 1085160209) - with the identical certificate 46226, month and place. One marriage, filed twice: the State's practice for a bride married before. Which is maiden is NOT established and is not guessed; see Evelyn M. Cooper, the stub created for her in this pass. PLACE AND DATE ARE CODED. 'PLACE OF MARR.' holds 1630, a four-digit code, not a town; 'North Haledon' is Ancestry's decode, recorded as such. It agrees with [J.157], which has him dying at Paterson 'of North Haledon'. (2) 'Carl D Cooper | May 1975 | Newton, Sussex | Denise L Roe' - that is his SON Living and Living, whose marriage this catalog also carried undated. Recorded on their files, not chased here. (3) 'Carl O Cooper | Sep 1950 | Newton, Sussex | Nancy A Deleu' - his first marriage, [C.161], found an hour earlier by the bride's surname. The groom-side search confirms it independently.

Result: FOUND - AND THE SAME SEARCH RETURNED BOTH OF HER MARRIAGES, NEITHER OF WHICH THE CATALOG HAD DATED. (1) 'Nancy A Deleu | Sep 1950 | Newton, Sussex, New Jersey | Carl O Cooper | certificate 33670' -> opened, image downloaded, filed and read on three ratable_stitch.py stitches = [C.161]. The row reads DELEU NANCY A | COOPER CARL O | 33670 | 19604 | 09 | 50. The PLACE column holds a five-digit CODE (19604), not a town name - 'Newton' is Ancestry's decode and is recorded as such, not as a reading. It is independently corroborated: [J.529] has her at Newton 'for many years', and her 1978 remarriage is indexed there too. SEPTEMBER 1950 AGREES WITH THE OBITUARY TO THE MONTH. [J.538] called Carl 'her husband of 27 years' at his death in December 1977; Sep 1950 -> Dec 1977 is 27 years and 3 months. Two sources 55 years apart, neither derived from the other. And state file no. 33670 makes the RETURN orderable - it would name both sets of parents. (2) 'Nancy A Deleu | Aug 1978 | Newton, Sussex, New Jersey | Donald M Rouse | certificate 38708' (Bride Index 1978, surname range A-D). THIS EXPLAINS A LOOSE END THE CATALOG HAD WRITTEN DOWN AND NOT SOLVED: her NUMIDENT [F.355] shows she used the surname ROUSE as well as Cooper, and nothing said why. She remarried eight months after Carl's death in December 1977. (2) IS AN INDEX READING ONLY - the image was NOT downloaded and no entry was made, so it is recorded here as a search result rather than as a catalogued record. It is a deliberate stop: a second husband of a married-in spouse is outside the Joseph Cooper sweep's scope, and RULE ZERO-C is better left undone than half-done. See the todo.

Result: Held: [J.157].

Result: Not run.

Result: FOUND GQ4F-KWQ: b. 16 Dec 1930 Sussex Co., d. 7 Dec 1977 Newton (the catalog has 8 Dec - not changed); NUMIDENT application Dec 1949; parents Fredrick Driscoll Cooper L48X-FT3 and Emma Augusta Orpen; spouse Nancy Ann Deleu GQ4N-94H -> Nancy Ann Deleu, NO children attached. Lead only.

Result: Not run.

Result: Not run.

Result: FOUND (index only, no image): SSA NUMIDENT 1:1:6K9N-56VD - 'Carl Orpen Cooper', b. 16 Dec 1930, 'Newton Susse*, New Jersey', SS application Dec 1949, death Dec 1977, parents 'Fred D Cooper' and 'Gussie Orpen' (sex indexed as female - an index error). Find a Grave index 'Pfc Carl O. Cooper', Green Twp, 1930 - death indexed as 8 Dec 1997 (the obituary [J.157] gives 1977). Censuses 1940 [D.358] and 1950 [D.359] already held. N/A: 1930 census - born 16 Dec 1930, after the 1 April 1930 census day. NULL: marriage(s) not online (NJ 1950s-70s); 1977 NJ death certificate not online; no probate or land index online for Passaic/Sussex 1977.

Result: FOUND (record 47976475): 'Carl Orpen Cooper', b. 16 Dec 1930, Newton Susse[x], New Jersey; d. Dec 1977; father Fred D Cooper; mother Gussie Orpen. Agrees with the NUMIDENT already recorded.