Part III - Coppock Family
Partial source: Curtesy of Andrew Waber
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There were four possible John Coppocks here. The latest conclusion is the John, Jr. who was born about 1608, and died about 1666.
This John married Margaret Deane, daughter of Unknown Deane and Elizabeth Unknown, on 21 July 1634 in County Cheshire, England. (Margaret Deane was buried on 13 October 1683 in Friends Burial Ground, Mobberley, Cheshire, England)
A Coppock researcher, a Mr. Dale, copied a newspaper article from "The Guardian" published in 1910, which implies that this John and Margaret Deane Coppock are the parents of our Aaron Coppock.
"The Coppocks of Mobberley & Tarvin, There appears to have been two distinct branches of the Northenden family living at Mobberley. One branch, probably cousins of John & Margaret Dean in 1634, and they had several children baptized at Mobberley, including Bryan, the eldest, 1645 (probably called after a kinsman of Etchells), Jonathan, Mary, Aaron, & Elizabeth." Here is how I interpret this: One branch of the Northenden Coppock family living at Mobberley were probably cousins to John and Margaret Dean who married in 1634. John and Margaret Dean had several children baptised at Mobberley, including Bryan, the eldest, 1645 (probably named after the relative named Bryan who was a kinsman of the Etchells), Jonathan, Mary, Aaron and Elizabeth. It matches in it's entirety with what I have gleaned over the years about John the Tanner and Margaret Dean's family from Cheshire records, Ann Natalelli's sortings and Gary Hawley's research. Furthermore, her letter stated: "John Coppock of Mobberley, Tanner, was buried there in 1666, and his will is at Chester. His father was named John." This also matches the parents that I've sorted out for John the Tanner. There are no time line discrepancies to prove otherwise. Aaron would have been born late, near the time of his father's death. His mother could still have been in her 40's at the time. The fact that she is young compared to her husband is supported by the fact that her mother was still living at the time John died as he names her in his will.
�It should be noted that Alan Dale's transcription of this article in the Guardian implied that it's source was an 1838 letter from Margaret Holland to her cousin Abigail Holland Coppock that was published in Irvine's "History of the Hollands". I located this book entitled "The Family of Holland", but it dosn't mention anything about Aaron Coppock. Only the first paragraph of the letter is quoted in the Guardian. It simply talked about her current Coppock cousins in Mobberley, but she never implied any relationship to this branch of the Coppock family or to our Aaron. Therefore, the quote above was from whomever submitted the article to the Guardian in 1910 and this remains to be found. As for Margaret Holland of Mobberley, her Coppock cousins descended from John Coppock of Ringey, in the Parish of Bowdon who married Katherine at Mobberley on Dec. 26, 1717 and died about 1754. In other words, her Coppock cousin was likely born in the 1690s and is a full generation younger than our Aaron Coppock.
�Margaret and her husband were having children every couple of years. Several of the children were not in the christening records. This included Ann, William and Magdelin. They had an "infant" born in 1648 whom we assumed died and was never named in the christening records.(C-2430)
�John is listed as a Tanner by trade of "Halle", also spelled Hale located in Bowden Parish according to Annie. In 1634, he is also listed of Bowden Parish when he marries Margaret Deane. (C-2247) I suspect their first couple children were born in Bowden Parish and then they moved to Moberley, where the majority of their children were born. He is listed as John, the Tanner, in both locations and the time line fits perfectly for him being one and the same person.
�The transcription of his will is as follows: "Will of John Coppock of Moberley, yeoman; to Wm. Coppock, my brother & unto John Coppock his son being my executors; all my lands in Mobberley; to my son Bryon Coppock, f50; my daughter Elizabeth f50, daughter Ann Coppock, f50, to Elizabeth Deane, my mother, Susanna Strettell of Manchester, Lancaster Co. widow; & to Susanna Burton daughter of the Susanna Strettell, to my son William Coppock lands if Wm. does not marry Rebecca Cowley of Ashton, Chester Co.; but if he does marry, then my brother William & his son John to pay to my son f20.40, to son Bryan Coppck, Magdelen Fletcher, Mary Cawley, Ann Coppock & Elizabeth Coppock, my daughters my wife Margarett Coppock. Proved Jan 17, 1666." He apparently submitted a will in 1660 and 1665 according to Annie Natalelli Waloszek. (This transcription is by Glenn Russhell and is his will written in 1665.) (C-1333b, 2249) 57
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Aaron Coppock, son of John Coppock and Margaret Dean, was born 25 December, in 1665, Moberly Parish, Cheshire England, and baptised 6 January 1666, in Mobberley, Cheshire, England.
He was married/1 in January 1687/8 in Mobberly to Mary Orrell, who was born about 1669, and whose family lived next door to the Coppock farm.
Aaron�s family was not Quaker when his 2nd born child died on 9 February 1691, and was buried at the Church of England. The first indication that he had turned Quaker was in 1695 when he was fined 1 lb for failure to tithe to the Church of England. He paid the fine in corn.
Their five oldest children were born in Mobberly. The Mobberly Burial Ground is just across the road from the Coppock farm. A pair of brass cow collars are still on the farm.
The family was given a certificate of transfer. It indicated that on 3 September 1701, they had left for Bristol, Port of Embarkation. The family then consisted of 3 children, 2 infants having died. Mary was not alive by the time Aaron and children arrived in America.
They were received at Haveford Monthly Meeting (now Delaware County, Pennsylvania) on 1701-3-23, and lived in Aston township for a short while. Then they were received at Nottingham Township, in Chester County, Pennsylvania on 1704-4-3.
�The ship �Welcome,� Robert Greenway, master, which sailed from Deal on 31 August 1682, and arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 28 October 1682 brought to America for his first visit, the Lord Proprietor of Pennsylvania, William Penn, himself.
In the will of Isaac Ingram of Garton, Surrey, yeoman, signed by mark on board the �Welcome� on 26 7mo 1682; (witnesses, included George Thompson,) left the residue of his estate to Adam, Miriam, and Ann Short, children of the testator�s deceased sister Miriam Short, who died 26 7mo 1682.
If Miriam, the elder, accompanied her brother on the voyage, then she died enroute, but there is no evidence to show her aboard, but seems to show that the three children came with their uncle. Since both Miriam and George Thompson were aboard, this could have been a shipboard romance. In the 14 weeks between the arrival of the �Welcome� and the first session of the court, George had courted Miriam and married her by Lutheran rite. They had one child, name and sex not recorded. When the court held at Chester, 6 11mo 1684, they conferred together how to provide maintenance of Miriam Thompson and her child.�. from �Welcome Notes,� by George E. McCracken, Ph. D, F. S. G. Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
By 6 November 1684, Miriam applied for public maintenance for herself and her child. George Thompson either deserted her or the marriage was dissolved before 1698 when George was listed among the married men of a church.
In Cope�s �Genealogy of the Bailey Family of Bromham, Wiltshire, England,� page 14, implies that she was a widow. She married William White, wheelwright, who had a warrant for land in Brandywine Hundred, Newcastle County, Pennsylvania in 1692, and was dead by the time in 1704, when Miriam was married, thirdly, to Aaron Coppock of Aston Township. in 1713 they removed to Nottingham where he died 10 10mo 1726. For subsequent history, see Cope�s �Bailey Family.�
A resident of Aston Township, Aaron was married/2 to Miriam Short, (widow Thompson, widow White) on 9m, 30d 1704, at Upper Chichester Friends Meeting under Nottingham, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. She was born 10 May 1664, Ford Parish, Sussex, England. Her family came from Garton, Surrey County, England. Her mother was Miriam Ingram.
Aaron died 10mo, 10, 1726; his will was probated 12mo, 17, 1726, at Elkton Court House, Cecil County, Maryland. He named his six surviving children, John, Lydia, Miriam, Sarah Frazier, Martha Robinson, Mary Sinclair, and Stepchildren Ralph Thompson, Samuel White, and Eliza White, and wife Miriam, who died in 1746, Pennsylvania.
"A testimony from Nottingham Monthly-Meeting in Pennsylvania, concerning Aaron Coppock.
"It appears he was born in Cheshire in Old England, the 25th of the tenth month 1665, was convinced of the truth when a young man, came to America soon after and lived near Chester; about the year 1714 he, with his family, settled at Nottingham in said county; being a man of an exemplary conduct and much esteemed by friends, he was chosen an elder for the particlar meeting of East-Nottingham, until he appeared in public testimony, and therein was often concerned to exhort friends to a life of self denial, watchfulness and prayer, the which he did in great sincerity, zeal and innocency. In the forepart of his last illness he complained of much poverty but before he died had a prospect of happiness, and a sure hope of obtaining the same. He departed this life on the 10th day of tenth month 1726, and was buried in Friends burying ground in East Nottingham the 12th of the same month, aged sixty-three, and a minister 7 years."
Family legend has it that his prayer book, now lost, stated in his handwriting "We are the Clan MacDonell of Keppoch and our clan cry is God & St. Andrew." Name later changed to Ceapach (Gaelic form of Coppock).
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