That is exciting. JUst please keep an eye out for an Horace Cooper in N. J> marriage records for me. Beth -----Original Message----- From: Beverly Porter <bporter@home.com> To: COOPER-L@rootsweb.com <COOPER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [COOPER-L] COOPERS in New Jersey >Beth, > >Thank you for your note. I'm afraid I don't have many additional >"leads". Most of my COOPER information has been obtained through LDS >tapes. Although I grew up in New Jersey, I haven't had a chance to go >back to do any research on the premises, so to speak. Just today I >learned, through the NJ marriage listings, that Gilbert's father was >named Michael COOPER. Very exciting. Now if I can just sift him out from >the myraid of other COOPER's probably in New York State where Gilbert >was born. > >Good luck with your research. > >Beverly Fearn Porter, Columbia, MD > >abcfhist wrote: >> >> Good Morning, >> >> Thank you for the input. Just wish I could add to what I have written. But >> I seem to have been at a brick wall for what seems like years and years. >> >> What I do have is from the book by John Little, "First Settlers of the >> Passaic Valley" >> >> Since I am not able to have but a very few of my records with me, I do not >> happen to have that particular book today. I will have to have my son find >> it for me and bring it to me. I am hopeing to be able to make a trip to N. >> J., which is more or less a dream, to do research. I will also be >> searching for information on Capt. John Maxwell and his wife Eunice Osborn, >> Luke and Lucas Van Buskirk, -- Luke married Capt. John Maxwell daughter >> Elizabeth --- and the Howell family. I do have some on the rest of these >> family lines but the Cooper family always seem to be the dead end search. >> I would really like to see just what might be found if I could just go >> there. However, I live in the very corner of N. W. Washington, a short >> distant from Canada. So, it will be about a two month research trip for me >> if I get to go. >> >> Perhaps, if you would send me a list of leads, I would be able to keep an >> eye open for information that you would like to have. It is never to early >> to start planning this long of a trip. >> >> Beth >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Beverly Porter <bporter@home.com> >> To: COOPER-L@rootsweb.com <COOPER-L@rootsweb.com> >> Date: Thursday, September 07, 2000 3:58 PM >> Subject: [COOPER-L] COOPERS in New Jersey >> >> >Hi Beth and Zelma, >> > >> >I have been reading your correspondence with great interest. I think if >> >all of us with COOPER interests in New Jersey get together, we'll find >> >some links some time. I'd appreciate any information on a Gilbert M >> >COOPER and family. >> > >> >My Gilbert M. COOPER, 1804-1883, lived in Pompton, Passaic county at >> >least from 1840 on. He was born in New York, possibly Rockland County. >> >He married twice, Catharine and Mary. A daughter from his first marriage >> >to Catharine was my great grandmother Elizabeth. She later married Isaac >> >TOMPKINS and they lived in Pompton then Paterson in Passaic. Most of >> >Gilbert's children were daughters, but there was one son, Harvey. >> > >> >Thanks for reading this, love to hear from you. >> > >> >Beverly Fearn Porter, Columbia, Maryland >> > >> > >> >==== COOPER Mailing List ==== >> >Keep this list and over 6000 others online with your RootsWeb >> >membership or sponsorship. >> >RootsWeb Gen.Data Coop.Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 >> > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html >> > >> > >> >> ==== COOPER Mailing List ==== >> Keep this list and over 6000 others online with your RootsWeb >> membership or sponsorship. >> RootsWeb Gen.Data Coop.Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 >> http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > >==== COOPER Mailing List ==== >Keep COOPER-L and over 6000 other lists online with your >RootsWeb membership or sponsorship. >RootsWeb Gen.Data Coop.Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > >