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Wibroe Griggs Cooper

Birth
Olney, Milton Keynes Borough, Buckinghamshire, England
Death
1662 (aged 68–69)
Suffolk County, New York, USA
Burial
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John Cooper married in Olney, Buckinghamshire, 18 October 1618 Wibroe (Griggs) Pierson, born about 1593 (aged 42 in 1635). (Wibroe Griggs married (1) Olney 25 July 1609 William Pe[i]rson and had with him a son Henry.
They had five children: Ann White Phillips, Mary, John, Thomas, & Martha Cooke.
As part of the Olney cluster, John Cooper and his family were neighbors at least to the Kirklands, Farringtons, Newhalls and Fullers. Wife Wibroe was mother of immigrant Henry Pierson and may have been a close relative of the George Griggs family, who also immigrated on the Hopewell.
On 1 April 1635, "Jon Cooper," aged 41 years "of Oney in Buckinghamsher," was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the Hopewell. On the same ship were "Wibroe 42 years wife of Jon Cooper" and "Mary Cooper 13, Jon Cooper 10, Tho[mas] Cooper 7, Martha Cooper 5 children of Jon Cooper aforesaid."
John Cooper married in Olney, Buckinghamshire, 18 October 1618 Wibroe (Griggs) Pierson, born about 1593 (aged 42 in 1635). (Wibroe Griggs married (1) Olney 25 July 1609 William Pe[i]rson and had with him a son Henry.
They had five children: Ann White Phillips, Mary, John, Thomas, & Martha Cooke.
As part of the Olney cluster, John Cooper and his family were neighbors at least to the Kirklands, Farringtons, Newhalls and Fullers. Wife Wibroe was mother of immigrant Henry Pierson and may have been a close relative of the George Griggs family, who also immigrated on the Hopewell.
On 1 April 1635, "Jon Cooper," aged 41 years "of Oney in Buckinghamsher," was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the Hopewell. On the same ship were "Wibroe 42 years wife of Jon Cooper" and "Mary Cooper 13, Jon Cooper 10, Tho[mas] Cooper 7, Martha Cooper 5 children of Jon Cooper aforesaid."


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