Mary Cooper

[Phoenix]

Mary is a fairly shadowy creature.

She is buried in Litcham, Norfolk 24 May 1780. Her little son was buried a couple of months earlier.

I think Mary was the daughter of James Cooper senior and Mary nee Athill (his second wife), baptised in neighbouring East Lexham 18 March 1740/1.

She married William Dennis 30 November 1772 at East Lexham but her three children were born in Litcham. With a name like Cooper and children called Mary Elizabeth and William it is very hard to be certain I have found the right person.

[kiterunner]

The marriage was at Litcham, Phoenix - it is in the PR images on FamilySearch. Both of the parish, bachelor and spinster. Witnesses Philip Easton and Edmund Creed (serial witness).

[kiterunner]

And there are no Dennis burials in 1780 at Litcham in the PR images. FamilySearch has a transcription of a Mary Dennis burial 24 May 1780 at Burgh-next-Aylsham, with a William Dennis buried at the same place 29 Mar 1780. But I can't see them in the PR images for that parish (1780 burials on image no 25 of the baptisms, marriages and burials 1741-1812.) But looking at the typed transcriptions of the Litcham PR's, they do have the burials for William, infant, and Mary, so I think FamilySearch have got their Norfolk PR's in a big muddle!

[Phoenix]

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12427-29729-96?cc=1416598&wc=MMVP-7WD:n1819778332

Image 74 for Litcham shows the burials of William Dennis Infant 29 March 1780 and Mary next entry but one. (and several relations of Edmund Creed on the same page)

Burgh next Aylsham is miles away. I've just been through the register for that:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12427-29866-88?cc=1416598&wc=MMVP-SHF:n1443374178

Image 25 covers burials for 1780 and no trace of Dennises

[Phoenix]

Sorry, just realised what you've said. I got really worried because I had been looking at the original images before I posted.

I think Edmund Creed and Philip Eaton are parish clerk status, rather than relatives.

Freereg also seems to have got its knickers in a twist, showing East Lexham ATS as West Lexham.

[kiterunner]

This is the image I was looking at, Phoenix, which didn't have the burials on:
Litcham Burials (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12418-30305-56?cc=1416598&wc=MMVP-7WV:1815808997)


FreeREG have it down as Letheringsett, so it looks to have been put under Litcham by mistake on FamilySearch. I don't know if it is worth reporting it to them.

[Phoenix]

I last saw that register in my great aunt's cottage, after we'd bullied the churchwarden when he said Letheringsett registers didn't start till 1812. The earliest ones are missing, probably because he had lent them to "Basil".

At least it's under Letheringsett as well.