Bartholomew Loper (1591 - abt. 1599)

Born 1591 in Dover, Kent, England

Died about Jun 1599 at about age 8 in Dover, Kent, England

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Bartholomew Loper died young.

Biography

Bartholomew Loper (Lopar) was born in 1591 and baptized on 29 September 1591 at St. Mary the Virgin, Dover, Kent, England. He was the son of Cornelius Loper.^[1]

He is probably the unknown son of "Cornellys Lopar" who was buried at St. Mary the Virgin on 16 June 1599.^[2] He is not named in his father's will made in Dover on 22 December 1620.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Transcripts of the Parish Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Dover, Baptisms 1557-1879, p. 25; FHL 355,633, DGS 7,905,443, image 31 (baptism of Bartholomew SOPER (or LOPER), s. of Cornelius, 29 Sep 1591)(FHL/FHC access only); image available here.
2. ↑ Transcripts of the Parish Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Dover, Marriages 1557-1843, Banns 1754-1812, Burials 1558-1841, p. 1272; FHL 355,634, DGS 7,905,444, image 402 (burial of ___LOPAR, s. of Cornellys LOPAR)(FHC/FHL access only); image available here.
3. ↑ Consistory Court of Kent, Liber 46, f. 207b, will of Cornelius Loope; FHL 188,859, DGS 8,315,357, image 237 (FHC/FHL access only); image and transcription available here.

See also:

• John Anderson Brayton, “The English Ancestry of Thomas Cullen,” The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal 26 (2000): 363-375, at 368-369 (summarizing records relating to the "Loper Family of St. Mary's, Dover").