In a message dated 4/21/2007 12:29:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, rdh@epix.net writes: Hi Danny, I have reason to believe that my Jonathan is descended from the Jonathan Cooper born in Richmond, Yorkshire, England, through his son Jonathan who married Sarah Stockdale. My only problem is I haven't found any concrete proof of that theory Hi Russell, It does seem highly likely that your Jonathan was the son of the Jonathan that married Sarah Stockdale being that they are from Bucks County. Have you checked all of the available Quaker records? As I recall there were two lines of Coopers in Bucks County in the early days. The other Cooper line was the one that the famous writer James Fenimore Cooper descended from. James Fenimore Cooper married a Hibbs girl who as I recall was the neice of Sarah Hibbs who married our Jonathan Cooper Senior on March 31, 1714. So it appears that the descendants of both of these Cooper lines share a common ancestor in the person of William Hibbs, a quaker, formally of Gloucestershire, England who was buried in 1709 in Byberry Cemetary in the same year that our Jonathan's father William Cooper was buried there. I believe I gave you some bad information when I said that William Coopers wife Thomasine Porter was Jonathans step mother. She was his mother and she evidently died sometime before 1699 and the voyage to America. When I was in Richmond England where these Coopers were last from, the town historian and I were able to find the location of the old Quaker Cemetary that Thomasine may be buried in. It was interesting in that we found it by overlaying a centuries old map onto a modern map after sizing it with a copy machine. The cemetary today is under the large manicured front lawn of a retirement home on what has been know as Quaker Street for centuries. Everyone at the home to include the historian were surprised to find out that a cemetary had been there all of those years. Danny Cooper Byrd ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.