GeneJ Follow Up - Gilman Cooper Lincoln and related

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Notes on Cowper-Cooper of Hingham Norfolk, England
Gilman Wills
Cowper-Cooper in Hingham, Norfolk, Parish Registers

Need to add spreadsheets for (1) Wills and (2) Hingham to Hingham

Follow up on the tangled mess of Mary (Cowper) Hawkes (1586-abt.1626), Thomas Cowper (1550-1620), etc.

Lincoln, etc. wills in The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln .... https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t6737d699?urlappend=%3Bseq=252

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Ann (Browning-5288) — 03/19/2022 JUst found this on Waalt AG v Thwaites

STAC 5/A6/27 - C I D - 40 Eliz - Norfolk - AG v Bridget Thwaits, Thomas Cooper, Robert Cooper Examinations taken at Hardingham co Norfolk 25 Sept 40 Eliz before Danyell Rieve DD, Martyn Sidley esq, Thomas Thetford esq [in the case] between William Terrold, Richard Thwaite et al Defs and Edward Cooke AG compl. Interrogatories to be ministered to Bridgett Thwaites widdowe Thomas Cooper yeoman, Robert Cooper yeoman on the part of William Terrold, Richard Thwaites and Thomas Amyas, three of the defs to the information of Edward Cooke AG. Depostion of Thomas Cowper of Depeham co Norfolk aged 60: that he hath heard that there were letters directed to certain knights and esquires in the said county from the lords of HM PC authorizing thaen therby to here and determine all matters of controversy that were then betwene Thomas Thwaites of Hardingham and Anthony his eldest sonne. see also STAC Thwaits We have a Thwait in a will

What was the date on that? Is that Bridget Cowper, daughter of Peter Cooper 1554 and Margaret Cowper 1582. She had brothers named Thomas and Robert. She was unmarried as of 1582

I have the link from Jo for the regnal calculator. Let me check If I did it right, then the year is 1598

Great stuff @Ann (Browning-5288)! I managed to sneak off to the library at lunchtime the other day and grabbed the will of Thomas Cowper the grocer of Attleborough, since you said it might be particularly important. I've just added it to the Google Drive and extracted the following:

Thomas the grocer of Attleborough made 23 Sep 1598 Wife Marye (executor) Mother Allice Chambers living in Attleborough Son Thomas (under 22 years) John Mowle (purchased land from him) Son John Daughter Elizabeth Peeter Moore of Hingham (purchased land from him) Richard Hunke and Thomas Curtis (supervisors) Raffe Chambers (witness) Robert Cawdwell (scrivener) Proved 13 June 1599

File MS 1669, 1E1 - Indenture: Feoffment. (1) George Cowper alias Cooper of Rollesby, husbandman, son and heir of Thomas Cooper of Norwich, worstead weaver, decd, and grandchild of Thomas Cowper of Attleborough, grocer, decd, and Thomas Cowper of Norwich, woolcomber, younger son of John Cowper of Norwich, tailor, decd. (2) Thomas Colman of Attleborough, grocer, and Mary, his wife. https://nrocatalogue.norfolk.gov.uk/index.php/indenture-feoffment-1-george-cowper-alias-cooper-of-rollesby-husbandman-son-and-heir-of-thomas-cooper-of-norwich-worstead-weaver-decd-and-grandchild-of-thomas-cowper-of-attleborough-grocer-decd-and-thomas-cowper-of-norwich-woolcomber-y