'Cowper2'
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Families covered: Cowper of Chester, Cowper of Overlegh
| Ormerod identifies the arms of the following family as "Azure, on a bend engrailed Or, between two wolfs heads erased, Argent, three cross crosslets Gules". | |||||||||||||||
| Thomas Cowper ("page of honour to prince Arthur, eldest son of king Hen. VII") | |||||||||||||||
| m. (c12.1498) Isabel Goodman (dau/heir of Richard Goodman, Mayor of Chester, by Isabel (Linnet?)) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Richard Cowper (dvp) | ||||||||||||||
| 2. | Thomas Cowper (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anna Donne (dau of Raph Done of Flaxyards) | |||||||||||||||
| 3. | William Cowper | ||||||||||||||
| m. Dorothy Brerewood (dau of Robert Brerewood, Sheriff of Chester) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Robert Cowper (d unm 1544) | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Thomas Cowper of Chester (a 1547) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Catherine Aldersey (dau of John Aldersey of Aldersey) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | John Cowper, Mayor of Chester (bur 04.07.1579) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Beatrice Calverley (dau of Sir William Calverley of Calverley) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Thomas Cowper, Sheriff of Chester (a 1582) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Eleanor Smith (dau of Sir Lawrence Smith, Mayor of Chester) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Thomas Cowper of Chester (bur 01.01.1620) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Juliana Ellis (dau of Matthew Ellis of Overleigh) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Thomas Cowper, Mayor of Chester (b 1594-5, d 19.07.1671) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (13.08.1622) Catherine Thropp (b c1599-1600, d 29.05.1672, dau of Thomas Thropp, Mayor of Chester) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Thomas Cowper of Chester & Overleigh (bpt 19.12.1624, bur 30.11.1695) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Baskervyle (b 1644, bur 14.12.1716, dau of John Baskervyle of OId Withington) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Thomas Cowper (b 29.08.1669, bur 02.09.1669) | ||||||||||||||
| (b) | Thomas Cowper of Chester (bpt 03.11.1670, bur 18.08.1718, MP) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (18.08.1693) Martha Callis (dau/heir of Robert Callis of Lincolnshire) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Thomas Cowper of Chester (bpt 17.09.1696, d 25.05.1736, 2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Esther Alleyne (b 1700, bur 04.10.1766, dau/coheir of John Alleyne of Greseley, m2. Col. Charles Gordon) | |||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | Thomas Cowper (bpt 19.11.1723, bur 06.06.1725) | ||||||||||||||
| ((B)) | Esther Cowper (bur 10.11.1740) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Roger Wilbraham of Durfold | |||||||||||||||
| ((i)) | John Wilbraham (bur 10.11.1740) | ||||||||||||||
| ((C)) | Arbella Cowper (bpt 11.08.1725, bur 13.08.1792) | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Hincks of Chorlton | |||||||||||||||
| ((i))+ | issue - Thomas Cowper, 2 daughters (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| ((2))+ | other issue - Thomas (bpt 13.09.1694, bur 02.02.1695-6), Elizabeth (bur 02.02.1700), Martha (b c1703-4, bur 21.04.1780) | ||||||||||||||
| (c) | John Cowper of Overlegh (bpt 16.01.1671, bur 29.09.1718, vicar of Middlewich) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Catherine Sherwin (bur 30.12.1727, dau of William Sherwin of Oxford) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | William Cowper, Mayor of Chester (bpt 29.07.1701, dsp 1767, 2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (19.08.1722) Elizabeth Lonsdale (bur 1728, dau of John Lonsdale of High Ryley) | |||||||||||||||
| ((2)) | Edmund Cowper of Overlegh (bpt 07.01.1708-9, d 28.09.1787, 7th son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (04.10.1739) Dorothy Gartside (bur 08.02.1753, dau/coheir of Josiah Gartside of Rochdale) | |||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | Thomas Cowper of Overlegh (bpt 17.05.1749, dsp bur 001.08.1788, recorder of Chester) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (13.10.1785) Harriet Raikes (d 03.03.1811, dau of Timothy Raikes of London) | |||||||||||||||
| ((B)) | Dorothy Cowper (b 14.021746, bur 02.06.1786) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Chulmondeley of Vale Royal) | |||||||||||||||
| ((C))+ | other issue - John (b 28.081748, bur 04.09.1748), John (bpt 21.10.1750, bur 02.04.1751), Mary (bpt 23.09.1740, d unm 11.05.1786), Elizabeth (b 07.07.1747, d 21..07.1747) | ||||||||||||||
| ((3)) | Thomas Cowper (bpt 20.05.1714, dsp bur 30.06.1784) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (01.1758) Sarah Clarke (dau of John Clarke, widow of Edward Trevor of Bodynrot) | |||||||||||||||
| ((4))+ | other issue - John (bpt 29.04.1700, bur 06.11.1701), John (bpt 04.12.1702, d unm 08.11.1730), Thomas (bpt 26.12.1403, bur 08.12.1709), Peter (bpt 19.06.1705, d unm bur 21.10.1782, rector of Sutton & vicar of Ashby), Catherine (b 09.06.1699, bur 21.06.1699) | ||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Catherine Cowper | ||||||||||||||
| m. (30.05.1642) Arthur Walley, Mayor of Chester | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Alice Cowper (bpt 01.12.1626) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Edmund Moldsworth of Chester | |||||||||||||||
| (iv)+ | other issue - John (bpt 25.01.1628, bur 17.02.1629), Richard (bpt 12.12.1630, d unm), John (bpt 112.04.1633, bur 1676), William (bpt 21.08.1636, d unm bur 29.1.1685-6) | ||||||||||||||
| (B) | Matthew Cowper (dc04.1644/5) | ||||||||||||||
| (C) | daughter | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Ratcliffe (recorder of Chester) | |||||||||||||||
| b.+ | other issue - Robert of Chester (d 1603, leave-looker), John (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Anne Gamul (dau of William Gamul of Chester) | |||||||||||||||
| d. | Anne Cowper | ||||||||||||||
| m. Henry Hardware | |||||||||||||||
| 4. | John Cowper | ||||||||||||||
| A. | Thomas Cowper, Bishop of Lincoln (d 29.04.1594) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Amey | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Elizabeth Cowper | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Bellew (chancellor of Lincoln, Provost of Oriel College) | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Mary Cowper | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Goldwell | |||||||||||||||
Main source(s): Ormerod (Cheshire, vol 1, 'Cowper of Chester and Overleigh', p293+)
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