Cooper Family History
Cooper Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a maker and repairer of wooden
vessels such as barrels, tubs, buckets, casks, and vats, from Middle
English couper, cowper (apparently from Middle Dutch
kuper, a derivative of kup ‘tub’, ‘container’,
which was borrowed independently into English as coop). The
prevalence of the surname, its cognates, and equivalents bears witness
to the fact that this was one of the chief specialist trades in the
Middle Ages throughout Europe. In America, the English name has
absorbed some cases of like-sounding cognates and words with similar
meaning in other European languages, for example Dutch Kuiper.Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of Kupfer
and Kupper (see Kuper).Dutch: occupational
name for a buyer or merchant, Middle Dutch coper.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cooper
Name Distribution of Cooper Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cooper families
 5,647 - 11,291  1,883 - 5,646 |
 1 - 1,882  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cooper families
|
438 - 874 147 - 437 |
1 - 146 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cooper census records
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Cooper Family Origin
Cooper Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cooper Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Cooper Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cooper census records
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