| [Index] |
| James COOPER (1824 - 1909) |
| labourer, policeman, farmer, manager Queanbeyan Roller Flour Mil |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
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Mary COOPER (1847 - 1852) Martha COOPER (1849 - 1922) Joseph COOPER (1851 - 1943) Mary Ann COOPER (1853 - 1922) Ann COOPER (1854 - 1914) James COOPER (1856 - 1866) William COOPER (1858 - 1891) Ellen COOPER (1863 - 1952) Sarah COOPER (1865 - 1956) James COOPER (1869 - 1963) |
James COOPER (1824 - 1909) + Martha WITTS (1825 - 1912) |
Joseph COOPER | ||
| Harriett SIMMONDS | ||||
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| b. 1824 at Horton, Gloucestershire, England |
| m. 20 Dec 1846 Martha WITTS (1825 - 1912) at Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales |
| d. 04 Feb 1909 at Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia aged 85 |
| Parents: |
| Joseph COOPER |
| Harriett SIMMONDS |
| Siblings (1): |
| Edward COOPER (1821 - ) |
| Events in James COOPER (1824 - 1909)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 1824 | James COOPER was born | Horton, Gloucestershire, England | |||
| 20 Dec 1846 | 22 | Married Martha WITTS (aged 21) | Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales | 26/586 | |
| 20 Dec 1847 | 23 | Birth of daughter Mary COOPER | Treforrest, Glamorgan, Wales, UK | ||
| 1849 | 25 | Birth of daughter Martha COOPER | At sea | V18502080 37A/1850 | |
| 21 Nov 1849 | 25 | Immigration | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | per 'Petrel' | 18 |
| 1851 | 27 | Birth of son Joseph COOPER | Molonglo, New South Wales, Australia | ||
| 1852 | 28 | Death of daughter Mary COOPER (aged 5) | |||
| 1853 | 29 | Birth of daughter Mary Ann COOPER | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | V18531741 39A/1853 | |
| 29 Nov 1854 | 30 | Birth of daughter Ann COOPER | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | V18541721 40/1854 | |
| 1856 | 32 | Birth of son James COOPER | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 7405/1856 | |
| 1858 | 34 | Birth of son William COOPER | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 11556/1858 | |
| 1863 | 39 | Birth of daughter Ellen COOPER | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 12834/1863 | |
| 1865 | 41 | Birth of daughter Sarah COOPER | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 14379/1865 | |
| 1866 | 42 | Death of son James COOPER (aged 10) | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 6322/1866 | |
| 1869 | 45 | Birth of son James COOPER | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 17193/1869 | |
| 04 Dec 1891 | 67 | Death of son William COOPER (aged 33) | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 12797/1891 | |
| 04 Feb 1909 | 85 | James COOPER died | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 3033/1909 | |
| 21 Nov 1949 | 125 | Immigration | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Petrel | |
| Personal Notes: |
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LIVING STONES
The Story of the MethodistChurch in Canberra By James S Udy Published 1974 Methodist Witness on Canberra Plains 34 Tenders for the erection of a SLAB CHURCH at CANBERRA will be received by the undersigned, until 12 o'clock, noon, on Saturday, the 3rd proximo. For further information apply to Edward D. Madgwick, Wesleyan Minister. The following month when representatives of Parkwood and Queanbeyan congregations met for the regular Quarterly Meeting it was decided to proceed with the erection of the first Canberra Methodist Church. Tenders were submitted and that of Messrs. Cooper and Taylor accepted for the erection of a small church at Canberra on a portion of land generously given for the purpose by Mr Peter Shumack, sen." Methodist Witness on Canberra Plains 35 Both the builders, Cooper and Taylor, were staunch Methodists. James Cooper arrived in Sydney from England in 1850 and proceeded immediately to Queanbeyan where, after working as a labourer and then a police constable, he selected land on the road between Queanbeyan and Sutton after the passing of the Robertson Land Act (1861). The latter also emigrated to Australia from England, arriving in 1852 at Sydney where he was assigned to Duntroon station. He too selected land in the 1860s and made a success of farming. Both men and their families were closely linked with the Methodist Church until they died at Queanbeyan in 1909 within two weeks of each other. One of Samuel Taylor's grandsons, Rev. L. A. R. Taylor. has served as a minister of the New South Wales Conference. And one of James Cooper's great granddaughters, Mrs Pam Ray, took part in the dedication of a section of the old Canberra Methodist Church erected in National Memorial Church as a reminder of the early Methodist pioneers of Canberra Plains. The one, rood given by Peter Shumack for the site of the Canberra Methodist Church was cut from the 100 acres of his portion 34. It was legally registered under 'the Model Deed 27th February 1840, of the people called Methodists' on 30 October 1868.37 The trustees were Thomas Southwell, John Gale, John Southwell, Samson Southwell and Samuel Walker." The new Canberra Church, built of slab boards with a bark roof, was officially opened on 7 February, 1869. The Queanbeyan Age of Thursday, 11 February, 1869, described the ceremonies at some length. “GUNDAROO” by Errol Lee-Scarlet published 1972 - Pages 125-126 At Woodfield, J. Deacon and the Bingley brothers built with local subscriptions a tongued and grooved weatherboard Methodist chapel opened in August 1901; it measured about 15 ft. x 20ft. and was capable of seating sixty worshippers. In that area there developed a sizeable Methodist community in the early free selection period with the settlement of the families of James Cooper, a former Queanbeyan policeman, and William Bingley, an ex-brewer from Queanbeyan who was converted and became a pillar of Methodism. By the eighties a third generation of both families included twelve young Southwells at Willow Lodge, children of the marriage of Tom Southwell and Mary Ann Cooper. The other important, but less prolific, family at Woodfield was the Gambells whose founder, William Gambell, one of the very first residents in the area, had clung to his Methodism despite his marriage to a Catholic. He frequently walked twenty miles to Queanbeyan and back on Sundays before services were commenced closer at hand. In the mid-eighties in addition to the services at Sutton (which were finally abandoned in 1888 because the chapel was too dilapidated for use) services were commenced at James Cooper's house "Rose Cottage", where the presence of a vine bearing succulent grapes was much appreciated by boys who could snatch a few while passing through the doorway to attend service. Cooper was a licensed preacher and occasionally officiated, with frequent aid from Josiah H.W. Walker of Queanbeyan. Services continued at his house until the opening of the new Chapel. |
| Source References: |
| 6. Type: Book, Abbr: Queanbeyan Register, Title: Biographical register of Canberra and Queanbeyan: from the district to the Australian Capital Territory 1820-1930, Auth: Peter Proctor, Publ: The Heraldry & Genealogical Society of Canberra, Date: 2001 |
| - Reference = 56 (Name, Notes) |
| 18. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: e-mails general pool, Title: e-mails general pool |
| - Reference = Bevan Stone 3 Jun 2018 (Immigration) |