Anthony Cope (abt. 1531 - bef. 1558)

Born about 1531 in Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Ellen (Stafford) Barlow — married about 1555 in England

Died before Dec 1558 before about age 27 in England

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Biography

Anthony Cope was born in Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England.

Name

Name: Anthony /COPE/

Anthony Cope is named as s son of John Cope and his 1st wife Bridget in History of Parliament ^[1]

Birth

Date: ABT 1531 or 1533

Place: Of Canons Ashby, Northampton, England

Marriage

Status: married

Husband: Anthony Cope

Wife: Eleanor Stafford

Marriage Date: ABT 1556

Place: Canon, Ashby, England

Death

Death Date: before Dec 1558

Will

Anthony Cope by his last will, dated June 6, 1558, and proved Dec. 20 following, desires that his body shall be buried beside that of his father in Canons Ashby church. He therein names Ellen his wife as sister of Sir Humphry Stafford (elder brother of John), “and daughter of dame Margaret Cope (his step-mother); and devises his lands in Eydon to his brother George Cope (Test. Vetusta, 749). He ob. s. p., and Ellen his widow remarried before 1568 Thomas Barlow of Huncote, co. Leicester, by whom she had issue a son, Stafford Barlow (Close Roll, 18 Eliz., p. 4).”). ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Political biography http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/cope-john-1513-58. ...states Date of birth estimated from father’s death. Vis. Northants. ed. Metcalfe, 15; LP Hen. VIII, xvii, NRA 10665, items 1024-5; CPR, 1550-3, p. 1; Req.2/27/89.
2. ↑ Abstracts of Proven Wills of Leicester District Probate Registry [FHL Microfilms 800668, 800669, 800670]."

• Visitation of Northamptonshire Page 15: Cope of Cope's Ashby
• Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume III, page 243 HASTANG 18.