Hi Robert, I don't know anything about your Greatgrandfather Robert Cooley and I don't know where Merridale Grove, Wolverhampton is located; however, it is interesting that my Grandfather was also named Robert "Bob" Cooley, born 29 January 1861 and died 13 February 1927. Per my Father, Albert Allie "Al" Cooley, born July 29, 1897, his father "Bob" was born at the foot of Rocky Ridge near Anniston, Alabama in Calhoun County, Alabama, U. S. A. The Cooley families came to Marshall County, AL in the late 1800s. Our Robert "Bob" Cooley died at the old Cooley Homeplace at Manchester Community (which is in Marshall County, Alabama, just outside the Corporate Limits of the City of Guntersville, Alabama) at the foot of Georgia Mountain, on the South Side of the Guntersville Lake/Tennessee River. He married Ellen Jane (Bolton) Cooley, born in February 1861 at Manchester, Marshall County, Alabama. She was the daughter of Richard William Bolton, my Great Grandfather, and Levena Elizabeth (McMinn) Bolton, my Great Grandmother). Richard William Bolton came to the U. S. with his family from London, England before the 1850 U. S. Census that picked them up by name for the first time in Marshall County -- with his mother, Jane (Austin) Bolton Cross; his step-father Charles Cross, his sister Margaret Bolton, his brother John A. Bolton, and his half-sister Jane Cross. Your Robert might have been a generation before my Robert Cooley. My Robert Cooley's father was John Cooley born about 1823 (per my mother, either in Greenville, S.C. or in Tennessee). I have not located any birth records for John Cooley. My Mother had personal knowledge that my John Cooley's father was James Cooley (believed born, per my Mother, in either Greenville, S. C. or Virginia). I also have no birth records on my James Cooley. I did find in the Cleveland, GA Public Library a record of an 1850 U. S. Census Household for a James Cooley, 56, born in VA; a Rebecca Cooley, 56, born in VA; a John Cooley, 23, born in TN, and an Elijah Cooley, 17 (maybe with a ditto to TN - couldn't really tell on the microfilm). At 23, I thought that John Cooley was old enough to be marrying about that time so I looked in the Early Marriage Records for Georgia and found a John Cooley who married Lydia Ann Kirkpatrick on 10 December 1850 after that 1850 U. S. Census had been conducted. I think that those individuals on that Cass County, GA census may be my Great Grandfather John Cooley and my Great Great Grandfather James Cooley. My Mother had personal knowledge that our John Cooley married Cassie "Liddie" Kirkpatrick; therefore, that could be the same as the Lydia Ann Kirkpatrick who married that John Cooley in Cass County, GA in December 1850. Our John Cooley and Cassie "Liddie" (names she was called by family members) Kirkpatrick both have monuments at the Cooley Cemetery at Manchester -- a few miles from my home at 345 Warrenton Shores Drive, Guntersville, Alabama 35976-6132. Where are you located? Happy Hunting, Doris Cooley Edmonds COOLEY-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > COOLEY-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 11 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [Cooley] COOLEY Family Tree ["Robert COOLEY" <barpsie@hotmail.c] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from COOLEY-D, send a message to > > COOLEY-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > To contact the list administrator, send mail to > COOLEY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [Cooley] COOLEY Family Tree > Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 02:54:07 -0000 > From: "Robert COOLEY" <barpsie@hotmail.com> > To: COOLEY-L@rootsweb.com > > I am wondering if any one has any information on the family of > COOLEY . My Greatgrandfather Robert COOLEY,last known address Merridale > Grove,Wolverhampton. Hardware Merchant. Time about 1858. > (Wife) Elizabeth Ann COOLEY ,nee DOWNING, deceased 7th March,1982,intered > Wolverhampton Cemetery 10th March,1892. > > Robert C. Cooley, > > Gold Coast, Qld. AUS. > > Email :- barpsie@hotmail.com > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.