On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:56:22 -0700 "Martha Winters" <mswinters@mindspring.com> writes: > Does anyone know if this Peter COOPER is connected to Ann COOPER who > m. > Ephraim MORTON 18 Nov 1644, Plymouth? I have no parents (or > siblings) for her. Martha - I do not have Ann's parents either (none are given in The Great Migration Begins) but there are some interesting Coopers in that time and place. Ephraim's brother Nathaniel m. 1st 25-Dec-1635 Plymouth (PCR 1:35) Lydia Cooper, d. 23-Sep-1673 Plymouth (Elijah Hayward, "Plymouth Colony Records" in NEHGR 9 [1855]:313-18, p. 317), and Lydia is mentioned (as "my sister Lydia Morton") in the will of her brother John Cooper (Plymouth Colony Probate Records, 4:2:59, 124), who came in 1634 and removed to Barnstable in 1639. There was a Cooper family in England connected to Mayflower passengers - see Robert Leigh Ward, "English Ancestry of Seven Mayflower Passengers: Tilley, Sampson and Cooper" in TAG, 52 [1976]:198-208. Stratton discusses the possibility that John and Lydia might be related to "the Cooper family of Henlow, Bedfordshire, allied with the Sampson and Tilley families," and suggests further research - see Eugene A. Stratton, "Plymouth Colony, Its History and People, 1620-1691," (Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Publishing, 1986) pp. 273-74. I have no evidence that Ann was connected with this Cooper family, but I think it deserves further investigation. Dale H. Cook, Chief Engineer, WWWR Roanoke VA, WCQV Moneta VA, WKBA WZZI Vinton VA, WKPA WLNI WLVA WZZU Lynchburg VA