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Shona
28-09-12, 12:22
Name - "official" name and what they were known as:
James Cooper
Date and place of birth:
See below
c1778
Names of parents:
See below
Date and place of baptism - if applicable:
See below
Details of each of his or her marriages - if any:
Margaret Aitken
Date and place of marriage not found
Occupation(s) - if any:
Labourer
Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!):
Aberdour, Fife - 1799, 1803, 1806, 1808, 1811, 1814 based on where the children were born. Widow Cooper living with two children at Aberdour 'Wester village south side' in 1841
Date, place and cause of death:
9 February 1838, age 60, Aberdour West. Cause: Inflammation
Date and place of burial:
13 February 1838, Aberdour
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable:
Memorial inscription - if any:
Not found
Will:
None found, but unlikely

Two possibilities for birth date and parents:
1 19 September 1780 to Thomas Couper and Isabel Johnston, St Andrew's, Fife.
2 27 August 1776 to Alexr Cooper, Auchterderran, Fife.

James and Margaret named their children - Isobel, John, Alexander, Thomas, James and Margaret.

Shona
28-09-12, 15:23
Cooper variant spellings: Couper, Cowper.