Gini, I read with your interest your posting. A word of caution based on my own experience (though if you're certain re: your research, please ignore). Several years back I came across a Cooper family history, written by J. Crayon over 100 years ago, describing Cooper's of NJ and NY. It provided several important linkages to my Cooper roots, and he wrote that their name was Kuyper or Kuper originally and that they had come from Holland. I spent several years going down blind alleys researching these Dutch names in the Hudson River Valley before discovering that Crayon was wrong! My Coopers were indeed English as I had first suspected, and that they may have SAILED from Holland in the 1600's (many people fleeing from or moving from the British Isles went to Holland first as their port of embarkation), but they were not FROM Holland. Crayon interviewed several octogenarians for his book, and the oral history contained references to the ancestors who "came from Holland." Indeed they did. "But a boat does not roots make." Best wishes, Tom Cooper On 11/19/07 9:50 AM, "Gini" <gini1223@comcast.net> wrote: > Ricky- I am particularly interested in the Middle Dutch kuper. My line of > Coopers had always assumed they were English, but research has shown that the > name was originally spelled Kuper or Kupfer, and they came from > Germany/Holland. Gini, in merry Maryland

Tom- My Coopers came from NY & NJ too. The first one here was Christian Cooper (1739-1809) who had a large family and lived in Rennselear Co., near Albany. Any relation? Gini ----- Original Message ----- From: <tcoop2@adelphia.net> To: <cooper@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 9:40 PM Subject: [COOPER] Cooper - name derivation > Gini, > I read with your interest your posting. A word of caution based on my own > experience (though if you're certain re: your research, please ignore). > Several years back I came across a Cooper family history, written by J. > Crayon over 100 years ago, describing Cooper's of NJ and NY. It provided > several important linkages to my Cooper roots, and he wrote that their > name was Kuyper or Kuper originally and that they had come from Holland. > I spent > several years going down blind alleys researching these Dutch names in the > Hudson River Valley before discovering that Crayon was wrong! My Coopers > were indeed English as I had first suspected, and that they may have > SAILED from Holland in the 1600's (many people fleeing from or moving from > the British Isles went to Holland first as their port of embarkation), but > they were not FROM Holland. Crayon interviewed several octogenarians for > his book, and the oral history contained references to the ancestors who > "came from Holland." Indeed they did. "But a boat does not roots make." > Best wishes, > Tom Cooper > > > On 11/19/07 9:50 AM, "Gini" <gini1223@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Ricky-> I am particularly interested in the Middle Dutch kuper. My line >> of >> Coopers had always assumed they were English, but research has shown that >> the name was originally spelled Kuper or Kupfer, and they came from >> Germany/Holland. Gini, in merry Maryland