COOPEY (links with Churchdown) (General)
Looking at Gloucestershire Marriage CD pre 1800 (not FOD) - COOPYE/COOPY/COOPEY - seems to be based the other side of the Severn i.e. Dursley/Cam/Churchdown/Charfield/North Nibley
e.g.CHURCHDOWN (family names?)
- John COOPEY/Elizabeth HERBERT - 10 June 1757
- Joseph COOPEY/Mary HONE - 22 September 1763
- Richard COOPEY/Elizabeth GAZE - 20 October 1760
- did they wander down to Churcham.... (7 miles)
no more male COOPEY marriages at Churchdown after 1763
1 female marriage
Ann COOPEY/Nicholas WRENFORD - 24 April 1758
and one later marriage
Elizabeth COOPEY/James HOOPER (of Cheltenham) - 11 May 1789
FOD records
Marriage at Bulley - 8 December 1734
William COOPY
Grooms residence: CHURCHDOWN
married
Sarah HAMPTON
Brides Residence: CHURCHAM in Diocese of Gloucester
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IGI Batch Numbers for Churchdown (baptisms) - COOPY/COOPEY/COWPEY