Margaret COOPER

Abt 1843 - 1878  (35 years)

• Name	Margaret COOPER
  Birth	Abt 1843
  Gender	Female
  Death	21 Sep 1878
  Person ID	I206	Hannah
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2004

  
  

  Father	Joseph Garley COOPER
  Mother	Agnes HANNAH,   b. 1818, Ayr,Ayrshire SCT
  Marriage	16 Jan 1841	Ayr,Ayrshire SCT   [1]
  Family ID	F31	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	John CRAWFORD   d. Abt 1866
  Marriage	20 Feb 1863	Ayr,Ayrshire SCT
  Family ID	F61	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Thomas YOUNG
  Marriage	4 Jun 1869	Glasgow,SCT
  Children	1. Annie YOUNG   2. Thomas YOUNG   3. Joseph Cooper YOUNG   4. Peter YOUNG
  Family ID	F62	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Worked as a mantle manufacturers journeywoman (Glasgow) Margaret led a colourful life, spending some time as a concert hall singer under the stage name of Madam Cooper. Her husband Thomas spent some time in prison and she was left to look after the children, often applying for poor relief for them. She contracted psythis, (TB), and died in the poor house on 21 September 1878, aged just 34. Her children were farmed out but on Thomas

  
  

• Sources

  [S65] Marriage, Agnes HANNAH (77) and Joseph COOPER (96), 1841 RD 578/00 0012 Frame 315 (Reliability: 3).