Hello Listers, this is the most fascinating group of which to be a member. I thoroughly enjoy reading everyone's detailed information about our wonderful area. thank you all, kind regards dorothy ~~~~~~``` -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Marion Stainsby Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2007 4:56 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Janette Pfeifer Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Re John Cooper Hello again, Jan. You have given me great help in the past, and will be on my Thank You list in the book (if I can fit it in!). And you have given me some COOPER women married to Highton Wesleyans, who may or may not be related to John. Many of them seem to come from an area in England where Bedfordshire, Cambridge, and Hertford all converge. The trouble is that I can't tell if Hannah BIRD's husband is my John COOPER or not! If that couple lived in Highton in the 1860s, why would they have registered the births of their children at Modewarre? Robyn, thank you very much for copying out those marriages. I presume the dates are of the marriage, and the date of birth is deduced from the person's possible age. Only one of the people you mention appears to be the child of a John COOPER, although it should be possible to do a search for the parents of the others. But the Sarah COOPER who married Joseph HALL was probably the child of John & Hannah COOPER, as she and her older brother were reg. at Ashby and Geelong respectively. Sarah was born 1857, so she's have been 19. I shall keep your information on hand, and may be able to link it with something else. Margaret and Anne, your earliest COOPER, Thomas, could possibly be the son of a John, so please let me know if you find out more. The only Thomas COOPER on the list of Geelong cemeteries is Thomas C, buried in 1972 at the Geelong Eastern Cemetery. I got some details of COOPERs from shipping lists, but there are just so many that it's hard to arrange them into different families; and I've found at least 11 adult Johns arriving as Assisted Immigrants before 1860, and about 20 Unassisted in the period 1852-1860. At the moment the PROV website seems to be down, so I can't search for a Thomas who may have come out as a child. Life wasn't meant to be easy! Thanks, and good hunting, to all. Marion ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For on-line indexes and information on Geelong and District http://www.zades.com.au ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message