Family Tree Frank Cooper

James Cooper
b [born] 14 Mar 1841
d [died] 6 Oct 1899 aged 68 yrs [years]
m [married] 5 Aug 1865  

Mary Letitia Taylor – daughter of Thomas & [and] Catherine Taylor,
b 1841? In Birr, Offally Ireland
d 17 Sept 1878  aged 37 yrs

1  John
b 5 May 1866
d 24 Jan 1867

2  Mary Letitia
b 7 July 1867
m 31 Aug 1895   George Symonds

3  William    m Ruby Wise

Letitia (Letty) m William NICHOLSON

William
Ian
John

Dora May b 1904  
m William PATTERSON

Barbara Marion m Lindsay BELL

Thomas
Anne

Marion (May) b 1906
m Basil JONES

Lloyd
Kerry

3  Dora Teresa b 15 Oct 1868
m 12 Sept 1903   Peter McHARDY
d 20th Jan 1925

4  James William b 7 May 1870
m 1 July 1893   Olinda Melley (Separate Page)

5  Laurence Taylor b 10 Jan 1872

m 27 Apr 1897   Sarah Ann McGREGOR

d 23 Dec 1923 Aged 51 yrs
(separate page)

6  John Thomas b 20 Feb 1874
d 24 Sept 1874

7  ?John

8  Francis b 10 July 1875

m    Annie PALETHORP
d ?1971 aged 96 yrs?
(separate page)

Francis
Lawrence (Butler)
Dorothea
Annie
Selwyn (Sam)
Leonard
Letitia (drowned)
Linda (Mickey)

[Francis 1875] m. Maisie Evelyn Wilson d Sep 2008

Frank
Letitia
Patricia
James
Margaret

*Letitia and James met at Te Mata (Chambers). She was a maidservant and he a general farmhand.
Later owned his own farm till bank crash. Sold up and became a coachman. Suffered from arthritis due to working in inclement weather.

James came out from England possibly on the ‘War Spirit’ 1863.
He worked 1st on ‘Gwavas’ then for the chambers at ‘Te Mata’.
In 1863 he won a ploughing competition in Havelock North.