Birth: 3 May 1862 Exeter, Devon, UK
Father: James Cooper c1829-1871/81
Mother: Margaret Evans c1831-a1881
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 24 June 1885 Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Wife: Ada Steves Oram 1867-1941
Death: 20 July 1940 Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
? Cooper 1886-1886
James Harold Cooper 1888-1966
Waldo Emmerson Cooper 1890-1918
Manford Cooper 1892-1973
? Cooper 1893-1893
Oliver Lloyd (Lloyde) Cooper 1894-1967
Charles Munroe Cooper 1896-1989
Chester Howe Cooper 1898-1966
Violet Victoria Cooper 1900-1986
Ralston Daniel Cooper 1903-1986
Mabel Ruth Cooper 1905-2011
Bernice May Cooper [Crosby] 1908-1996
Alton Bernard Cooper 1910-1975
Birth of James Cooper in FreeBMD in April-June 1862 in Exeter (5b 11).
The family moved to Bury soon after he was born from the birth of his sister in 1863.
In the 1871 census as James Cooper aged 10, born in Exeter, Devon, and living with his parents (James and Margaret), two brothers (Henry and William), and three sisters (Hannah, Jane and Mary E) in Gigg Lane, Bury, Lancashire.
In the 1881 census as James Cooper aged 20, born in Exeter, Devon, single, a stripper and grinder, and living with his widowed mother (Margaret), brother (William), and three sisters (Hannah, Jane and Mary Ellen) and a cousin (William Brooks aged 1 and born in Bury, Lancashire) at 15 Parkhill Street, Bury, Lancashire.
In the 1900 census as James R Cooper aged 38, born in May 1862 in England, both parents born in England, married for 15 years, a day laborer,and living with his wife (Ada S), and six sons (Chester H, Charles M, Harrold J, Manfred, Oliver L and Waldo E) in Main Street, Canton, Oxford, Maine.
His daughter and son were born in Canton, Maine in 1900 and 1903, but his two daughters were born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1905 and 1908.
In the 1910 census as James B Cooper aged 47, born in England, parents born in in England, immigrated in 1866/7 (sic), married for 24 years, a leather finishing (own) shop, and living with his wife (Ada S), seven sons (Chester H, Charles M, James H, Manford, Oliver L, Ralston D and Waldo) and three daughters (Bernice M, Mabel R and Violet V) at 24 Lyris Street, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
His son was born in Dorchester Massachusetts, in 1910.
There are eight entries in Ancestry Marlborough, Massachusetts, City Directory, 1918 as Cooper James R in 1918 to 1934 - the company leather manufacturers were at 12 Beach Telephone 115 Westboro in 1915, but he was living at 16 Myrtle in 1918 with Oliver L Cooper (son?) at the same address, and at 11 Beach from 1925, Mabel R, A George, Bernice B, and Waldo E all living at the same address.
In the 1920 census as James R Cooper aged 57, born in England, parents born in England, immigrated in 1887, a leather manufacturer working on his own account, and living in an owned home value $2600 with no radio with his wife (Ada S), four sons (Alton B, Oliver L, Ralston and Waldo E), and three daughters (Bernice, Mable R and Violet V) at 16 Myrtle Street, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.
In the 1930 census as James R Cooper aged 67, born in England, immigrated in 1868, a leather manufacturer working on his own account, and living in an owned home value $2600 with no radio with his wife (Ada S), two sons (Alton B, and Wales E), and a daughters (Bernice M) at 11 Beach Street, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.
In the 1940 census as Jasper (sic - on the original) R Cooper aged 77, born in England, no stated occupation, and living with his wife (Ada s) in a rented home $15 per month at 80 Westborough Town, Worcester, Massachusetts, the same address as in 1935.
R L Crosby has an enty in Ancestry Public Member Trees for James R Cooper born 3 May 1862 in Exeter, Devon, parents George Cooper and Ann Goldring, his marriage to Ada Steves Oram, his eleven children, and his death in Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts on 20 July 1940.
Allen Morgan has an entry in RootsWeb WorldConnect for James R Cooper born on 3 May 1862 in Exeter, his marriage to Ada Steves Oram on 24 June 1885 in Saint John N.B., and 13 children, one unnamed born 25 December 1886 in St John N.B., and another still born in Somerville, MA, the the rest as above. The source of the marriage is given as St. John N.B., Daily Sun, 27 Jun. 1885. Bob Suddath has an entry for James R Cooper born in Devon, his marriage to Ada Oram in Nova Scotia, Canada, and a son Chester.
James R Cooper was the father of Oliver Lloyd Cooper, husband of Ina L Reed, daughter of Clara Melissa Heath, wife of Cornelius Teasdale, husband of Emily Croucher, my grandaunt.
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