Mt. Jerome Cemetery in Dublin, Ireland - Laura Jane Boyd Cooper 1853-1921 - Part 2

There is a plot that has several of my ancestors buried in Mt. Jerome Cemetery in Dublin, Ireland. No, I was not at this cemetery in Dublin; although, I wish I was there to see it for myself.

Headstone C-106 at Mt. Jerome Cemetery in Dublin, Ireland. Photo taken by Barbara Boyd Hopkins. 

I recently posted about my great-grandmother, Laura Jane BOYD Cooper. She is my father's paternal grandmother. I concluded with

"Laura Jane is buried in Mt. Jerome Cemetery in Dublin at Grave C-106 Grant 2760. This information was researched by a genealogist in Ireland for one of my Boyd cousins. On the actual cemetery card it stated the informant as George Corcoran, her son-in-law. I would love to see a photo of her headstone, if she has one."

My third cousin, Barbara Boyd Hopkins, was at Mt. Jerome Cemetery in 2015. She took the picture of the above headstone at section C-106. There is no mention of Laura Jane Cooper on the headstone.

This week, I was visiting my local Family History Center focusing on Mt. Jerome Cemetery records which are now online only at these centers apart from Salt Lake City. These records are not yet indexed. My first section was to look at the Index Register of Burials for Mt. Jerome Cemetery. Finding 1921, Laura Jane COOPER is listed in the alphabetical C section with Register No. 1501. 

Cemetery Records for Mt. Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. Index Register of Burials. 1915-1941. Microfilm #911,812. Online Film #008088047. Image 42 of 282. Accessed San Diego Family History Center : 19 July 2017.

Secondly, I look at the actual Register of Burials. I find Cooper, Mrs. Laura Jane. She is listed under "No. for the Year 1921" at 1501 as stated in the previous index. 

Register of Burials. Volume 23-24. 1915-1922. Microfilm #910,613. Online film #004029920. Image 722 of 787. Accessed San Diego Family History Center : 19 July 2017.

This page verifies that Laura Jane Cooper died on 28 November 1921 at Meath Hospital of Cancer at the age of 61. She was buried on 30 November 1921 in Registration District of 3 South. She is buried in a [family] plot in "No. 1 grave." She is buried in Section C - Subdivision 106. She is listed in Perpetuity Grant No. 2760. She is buried with a Granite Monument. Here is the verification of George Corcoran, 22 Turlough Terr[ace] of Fairview, her son-in-law, listed as "Relationship of the Attestant." As stated in a previous post, Laura Jane's daughter, Elizabeth Cooper CORCORAN, died 2 months previously of Multiple Sclerosis on 11 September 1921. A future goal is to research this index to find out if Elizabeth was also buried at Mt. Jerome.

Thirdly, the above lead me to find the Perpetuity Grant 
#2760 in the Registry of Grants in Perpetuity of Burial in Mt. Jerome Cemetery, 1861.

Cemetery Records for Mt. Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. Register of Perpetuities, Grants #2001-3992. 1856-1870. Microfilm #910,429. Online film #008087686. Image 226 of 571. Accessed San Diego Family History Center : 19 July 2017.

Here is the jewel I was looking for! Laura Jane Boyd Cooper is buried with her mother, Jane Carrick Boyd who died in 1901; 2 brothers, Robert Boyd 1869 and Andrew Boyd 1888; maternal grandmother, Ellen Carrick 1885; maternal grandfather, John Carrick 1861; her mother's eldest sister or Laura Jane's aunt, Isabella Carrick 1852; and Lillian Carrick 1877, who was Laura Jane's aunt by marriage to her uncle Andrew Carrick.

There are only two of the above names engraved on the front side granite monument. John Carrick 1861 with eldest daughter, Isabella Carrick 1862. John's widow, Ellen Carrick purchased the Perpetual Right on 8 November 1861 (time between the deaths of her husband and daughter). This was updated in 1885 by daughter, Jane Boyd and updated again in 1902 by granddaughter, Laura Jane Cooper. 

My first reference to Mt. Jerome Cemetery. Memory card in author's possession.

My cousin, Barbara, and I wonder if we should have the stone re-engraved to reflect all who are buried in Plot #C-106 for future generations.

Entrance to Mt. Jerome Cemetery. Photo by Barbara Boyd Hopkins. 2015

Carrick-Boyd-Cooper Plot C-106. Mt. Jerome Cemetery. Dublin, Ireland. Photo by Barbara Boyd Hopkins. 2015

There are four sides to this family plot monument. The front side is still readable as seen in first photo of this blog. Notice the broken top of the granite post.

Headstone C-106 at Mt. Jerome Cemetery in Dublin, Ireland. Photo by Barbara Boyd Hopkins. 

Off to the left side from the front, are two more names of Ellen Carrick and Andrew Boyd engraved on the family monument. The rest is unreadable.

The other two sides are also unreadable.

Area where the four infant children of Laura Jane Boyd and Alexander Cooper were buried with no headstones. Many of the headstones were missing, broken or under dirt. Photo by Barbara Boyd Hopkins. 2015 

The above photos will lead me to return to Mt. Jerome's Burial Index to find more family members related to the Carrick, Boyd and Cooper lines of these particular families.

I was finally relieved to find proof of Laura Jane Boyd Cooper's burial at Mt. Jerome Cemetery. 

Laura Jane “Jinny” Cooper Dawes (1876-1959)

Laura Jane "Jinny" Cooper 1927. Original from Doris Cooper.

Laura Jane “Aunt Jinny” COOPER was the first and oldest daughter of Alexander Sisson COOPER and Laura Jane BOYD, born in Dublin, Ireland, on 29 Jan 1876. She is my paternal grandfather's (John 
Carrick COOPER) eldest sister. I find a copy of her birth registration from Salt Lake City. The family was living at 18 Leinster Ave. in 1876.

"Ireland Birth and Baptisms, 1620-1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FR99M-7JD : accessed 25 May 2005), Laura Jane Cooper, 29 Jan 1876: citing Dublin, Ireland, reference v 2-2  p 580; ; FHL microfilm 255,946.

18 Leinster Ave. 2010

She had 10 siblings with only 5 
surviving. I find her mother in the 1911 Ireland Census stating this fact. 

I find Jinny with her family in the 1901 Dublin Census. She is 24, single, working as a clerk. See census record below. There is a reason Jinny's mother's name is crossed out. I will also cover this in Laura Jane BOYD's future post.

1901 Census of Ireland, County Dublin, unpaginated, household no. 139, Alexander Cooper; digital image, National Archives of Ireland, Census of Ireland 1901/1911 (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie : accessed 29 Sep 2016)

 http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai003707038/

In 1905, her father and youngest brother, Alex, Jr. sail for the United States. Three years later, on the 6 Mar 1908, Laura follows them across the Atlantic on the S.S. Baltic from Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland. According  to the ship's record, Line 1, she was living with her Aunt Bessie PEARSON (father's sister) in Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland, when she left for America. She paid for her own passage, meeting her father in New York City. Jinny is 5 feet tall with a fresh complexion, fair hair and blue eyes. She arrives in New York the 14 Mar 1908.

 Manifest, SS Baltic, 14 March 1908,  backside of stamped page 32, line 1, Laura Jane Cooper, age 32, Image New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 Sep 2016).

Manifest, SS Baltic, 14 March 1908,  stamped page 34, line 1, Laura Jane Cooper, age 32, Image New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 Sep 2016).

Two days later, 16 Mar 1908, she married Alexander Chalmers “Uncle Barney” DAWES in Manhattan at City Hall according to marriage registration. Her youngest brother, Alex, Jr. is a witness.

"New York Marriages, 1686-1980," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F648-K2K : accessed    16 March 2017), Alexander Dawes and Laura Jean Cooper, 16 Mar 1908; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 1,452,363.

Barney and Jinny. Original from Doris Cooper.

Alexander Chalmers Dawes

Researching, “Alick,” he is born 19 Aug 1883, to Robert Clement DAWES and Martha COLOHOUN  (several spellings) in Dublin. He sails on the S.S. Etruria from Liverpool on 6 Jul 1907 to meet the same Alexander Cooper, his future father-in-law. Alick was known to family as "Barney." Jinny and Barney knew each other in Dublin. Arrangements were made to send Barney to America first to find a job and a prepare a place for his bride to be. She came six months later. This is why she married two days after her arrival. 

I find the couple in the 1910 census living in the Bronx on East 175th St. Alick is in the Pa “papers” process of Naturalization. His occupation is very general as a “Street Laborer.” Their first son, Robert Clement DAWES, is listed. He is 9 months old. Robert was born on 20 Jul 1909, in Lynhurst, New York.

Four years later on 18 June 1913, Edwin Ashley DAWES was born in Brooklyn, New York.

In the New York 1915 Census, I find this family at 415 Sixteenth St., Kings, New York City. Alick is listed as a Boiler Maker. I find my grandfather, John C. COOPER (Jinny’s younger brother) living with them as a book keeper.

Dawes family 1927. Original from Doris Cooper.

The Dawes family around 1919.
Photo in author's possession.

On January 6, 1920, the DAWES family is living in Brooklyn, New York. Alec DAWES is a boil-maker in a shipyard. His brother-in-law,  Alexander Sisson, Jr., "Alex" COOPER is living with them and is also working in a shipyard as a ship fitter.

He petitions for U.S. Citizenship on 6 April 1920. This document  gives me my first clue for his birthday listed above. He lists his wife’s and two sons’ birth dates and birth locations. His affidavits include Alexander Sisson COOPER his father-in-law and Austin Cooper EDMONDS, his wife’s cousin.

United States. "Selected U.S. Naturalization Records - Original Documents, 1790-1974," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 Sept 2016).

In the 1930 Census, the Dawes family is living on 859 Oakwood Ave. in Schenectady, New York. Barney is now a guard for an electric works company. 

By 1940, Jinny is the source for the census taker. Her husband is a “police man” or security guard for an electrical management program. My aunt remembers that Uncle Barney loved being in "uniform." Their sons are now off on their own. 

Original from aunt.

Alexander "Barney" Dawes died in 1944. Jack Cooper comforts his sister at Barney's funeral in above photo.

Find A Grave, database and images (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 29 Sep 2016). memorial page for Laura Jane Dawes (1876-1959), Find A Grave Memorial no. 16914191, citing Parkview Cemetery, Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York; the accompanying photograph by Dawn Sherman is materially informative,

"Jinny" Cooper Dawes died on 31 Aug 1959. They are both buried in Park View Cemetery in Schenectady, New York.

I wish I knew more about their two sons, Robert “Bob” Clement DAWES and Edwin “Ashley” DAWES. 

Aunt Jinny Cooper Dawes. Original from aunt.

Alexander Sisson Cooper, Jr. (1891-1933)

Alexander Sisson COOPER, Jr. is the ninth child of eleven of Alexander Sisson COOPER and Laura Jane BOYD. See blog on his father with listing of all children of this couple 
http://familyfilmfabricfood.blogspot.com/2017/01/alexander-sisson-cooper-1854-1927-part-1.html

He was born on 24 Mar 1891 at 74 Harold Cross Cottages, Dublin, Ireland. He was baptized in the Parish of St. Peter according to his birth and baptism records.

Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, "Civil Records," database with images, IrishGenealogy.ie (https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ : accessed 21 February 2017), image, birth registration of Alexander Sisson Cooper, Jr.  (24 March 1891, 74 Artisans Dwellings, County of Dublin, city of South Dublin), citing Group Registration ID 10337480; registration filed 18 April 1903 by Rich. Tho. Hearns, in South Dublin Registration District, unidentified register, folio 613, “First page,” stamped no. 01891537, entry152.

Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, "Church Records," database with images, IrishGenealogy.ie (https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ : accessed 21 February 2017), image, baptism registration of Alexander Sisson Cooper, Jr. (26 April 1891,, County of Dublin, city of South Dublin, parish of Saint Peter), citing Record Identifier DU-CI-BA-210268, Image Filename d-45-2-18-125; page 125, entry 997.

Are 74 Harolds Cottages the same place as Harolds Dwellings?
I find him as a 10 year old with his family at 139 Ranelagh Road in the area of Rathmines and Rathgar East on Sunday, 31 March 1901.

1901 Census of Ireland, County Dublin, North Dublin, District Electoral Division (DED) Rathmines & Rather East, unpaginated, Ranelaugh, household no. 139, Alexander Cooper; digital image, National Archives of Ireland, Census of Ireland 1901/1911 (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie : accessed 21 February 2017).

Four years later, Alex encounters a grim; yet, delightful adventure as he kisses his mother goodbye for the last time as he leaves for Liverpool to board the Etruria with his father, for America. Here is a look at the New York Passenger List for 13-21 May 1905. Line 26 states he is 11 years old, in reality he is 14.

"New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 Feb 2017), Image 515 of 545, Line 26, Alexander, Jr. entry; citing List Number 4 of National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, Roll 576; Ship Etruria out of Liverpool, Tho. Potter master, arrived New York on 21 May 1905.

I find this picture of young Alex less than a year later with his Uncle John Edgar Edmonds (who married Alexander Sr.’s older sister, Mary Elizabeth Cooper) and his cousins. The Edmonds family are who the father and son were meeting in America as listed above.

In the U.S. 1910 (5th day of April) Census, 19 year old Alex (Line 22) is found with his father as borders with the Pinkerton family in Manhattan, on West 4th St.

1910 United States Census, New York County, New York, population schedule, Manhattan, enumeration district (ED) 162, Sheet 1-A, Family #7, Alex S. Cooper [John H. Pinkerton] household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 January 2017); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication T624, Roll 1006.

In 1917, when the U.S. is involved in WW1, young Alex enlists on 24 May in New York City. He is mustered with the National Guard Service on 25 July with the 7th Infantry Regiment. He serves overseas from May 1918 to Mar 1919. He is discharged on 2 Apr 1919. 

New York State Archives; Albany, New York; Abstracts of National Guard Service in World War I, 1917-1919; Series: 13721; Box: 6; Volume: 18.  ancestry.com : accessed 21 Feb 2017.

He returns home and by 1920 he is living in Brooklyn working as a ship fetter in the shipyard. The 1920 US Census states he was Naturalized in 1918. He is living with his elder sister, Laura Jane Cooper DAWES. Laura Jane, known as ‘Jinny’ to family came to the US in 1908. Refer to her biography blog post. 

He grows into a fine young man who marries May (Mary) Elizabeth HARVEY in 1923. I find the couple together in the 1925 New York State Census still in Brooklyn. 

Alex with May around 1925. 

By 1930, Alex works as a manager in a Bookbinding Company living on 61st St. still in Brooklyn.

By the 1940 US Census, May Cooper is listed as a widow and living with her parents. For 1935, it states the “Same Place” for her position.

I find Alex’s obituary in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle dated 18 Jan 1931. He died on 16 Jan 1931, of health complications. He is buried in Vahalia Cemetery on 19 Jan 1931.

Alexander S. Cooper, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 18 January 1931, page 17, column 4. 

Newspapers.com on Ancestry.com : Accessed 28 May 2015.

I recently found Alex's death certificate through FamilySearch.org. 
Cause of death is unknown; yet, diagnosis with entrance to hospital was influenza and contributed with Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis. This document states he is buried at Ocean View Cemetery, which is also known as Valhalia Burial Park, according to FindAGrave. He is not listed on this site as of yet. Only 32% of the grave sites are photographed here. 

I will have to request a photo of his plot. Is his wife, May or Mary buried with him? Aunt May died in 1982. This is another genealogy goal to hunt down.

Edwin Irwin Cooper (1889-1935)

Hollywood, Here I Come

Edwin Irwin Cooper 1906

Edwin Irwin COOPER was the third son of Alexander Sisson COOPER and Laura Jane BOYD born on 9 Jan 1889 in Dublin, Ireland. I recently found his birth registration after looking for it for several years. It is listed with only his middle name Irwin. Irish birth, marriage and death records were recently placed online through Irish Genealogy.ie. 

Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, "Civil Records," database with images, IrishGenealogy.ie (https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ : accessed 5 February 2017), image, birth registration of [Edwin] Irwin Cooper  (9 January 1889, 97 Artizans Dwellings, County of Dublin, city of Dublin South), citing Group Registration ID 10438147; registration filed 5 April 1889 by G. Whiteside, in South Dublin Registration District, unidentified register, folio 617, “First page,” stamped no. 01922640, entry 88.

In 2010, church records from Ireland were placed online which lead me to Edwin's baptism record which also listed his birthdate. Here we see first and middle names listed together as Edwin Irwin.
Birth date is 9 Jan 1889 and baptism 12 March 1889.

Irish Church Records. Irish Genealogy.ie St. Peter Parish, Dublin. 1886. No Volume listed. Page 102. Number 814.  https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-45-2-18-102 : accessed 5 October 2016.

I find twelve year old Edwin with his family in the Dublin 1901 Census.

1901 Census of Ireland, County Dublin, unpaginated, household no. 139, Alexander Cooper; digital image, National Archives of Ireland, Census of Ireland 1901/1911 (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie : accessed 29 Sep 2016)

 http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai003707038/

Seventeen year old, Edwin leaves for America on 3 Nov 1906 on the S.S. Carmania and arrives in New York the following week. He meets his father, Alexander and younger brother, Alex Jr., who came to the U.S. the year before.  Another older brother, John C. Cooper (my grandfather) arrived a few months earlier.

The photo above of Edwin is taken after he arrives in New York in 1906. His physical description is listed here on the passenger list. He is 5’ 7” tall, with a light complexion, with brown hair and blue eyes. You can find him on Line 22 on this poor torn copy of the pages of the ship records. See link below for a clearer copy of the document.

http://interactive.ancestry.com/7488/NYT715_795-0397/4041005880?backurl=http://person.ancestry.com/tree/95307/person/-2127445194/facts/citation/-2039688136/edit/record

Two years later, Edwin marries Bertha Raiso in Manhattan on 1 Dec 1908. They have a daughter Eileen born in March 1910. Baby Eileen is found with her parents in the 1910 US Census on East 17th Street in Manhattan. Edwin works in an office as a clerk.

In 1917, Edwin fills out the World War I Draft Registration Card with no new information or so I think. He signed the card on June 5 stating that he is married with an unnamed wife listed. I assume it is Bertha. He is living at 459 West 22nd St.

In the 1920 census, Edwin is found with wife, Edith, the one I know about. It is interesting to see that he is going through his Pa (papers) for naturalization. He has another daughter, Doris, born 25 Feb 1918. Edwin and Edith were married 13 Apr 1917, in Brooklyn, New York. Doris was born in Englewood, New Jersey. 

Edwin Cooper, Doris Cooper, Alexander Sisson Cooper

As Doris states  in her short biography, “I was born in 1918 in the Englewood Hospital, N.J., because my mother had trained there and her older sister was Head Nurse. But my parents were living in Brooklyn, N.Y. and she and I returned there as soon as we could.”

Edwin and Edith have a son, John “Jack” David Cooper, born 13 Dec 1921, in Brooklyn, New York.

Edwin’s occupation during this time is a “moving picture operator” in New York City, with silent movies. He was promoted working for Warner Brothers from 1926 to 1935. He was moved to Hollywood in 1926 with stops on the way in major cities across the United States as he instructed motion picture projectionists in the new SOUND movie technology, “which he helped develop” according to his son, Jack Cooper. Is this a family story that needs more research?

The movie Don Juan premiered in New York City on 26 August 1926, produced by the Vitaphone Corporation along with Warner Brothers.   Don Juan was such a success that the film was sent on the road across the country to Boston, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis and Los Angeles. 1 

How were "out-dated" movie theaters able to keep up with this new sound phenomena? Was this the movie that brought Edwin across the country to Los Angeles? 

The movie The Jazz Singer was a hit the following year, winning a first honorary Academy Award for technical achievement to Warner Brothers for the production of an outstanding pioneer talking picture, which revolutionized the industry. 2

Edwin continued to instruct movie theater projectionists the Vitaphone system throughout the southwestern states.

Edwin and family are found in Los Angeles in 1930. His occupation is listed as an “instructing operator for Vitaphone” in the 1930 U. S. Census. This occupation sent me on a research project.

Photo to the left shows a Vitaphone projection setup at a 1926 demonstration. Engineer E. B. Craft is holding a soundtrack disc. The turntable, on a massive tripod base, is at lower center. 3

This sound system lasted about 5 years and is displayed in the humorous film Singing in the Rain (1952).  

The photo to the right shows Edwin taking a break on the roof of the Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. as written on back of photo and verified by daughter, Doris Cooper.

Edwin Irwin Cooper 1930s.

Edith is listed as a Widow with her 19 year old son, David or known as "Jack," in the 1940 U. S. Census. I hunt down Edwin’s death certificate. I find him in the California Death Index and order a copy from the Department of Health Services in Sacramento, California. He dies on 17 Feb 1935 in Los Angeles, CA. He is buried on 20 Feb at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale.  I also find  his obituary in The Los Angeles Times on 19 Feb 1935, from Ancestry.com.

Photo taken by author

Edwin Irwin Cooper obituary, The Los Angeles Times, 

19 February 1935, p. 18, col. 8.Newspapers.com on

Ancestry.com : Accessed 12 Jul 2016.

I started researching my father’s side of the family in 2000 after my maternal side had a family reunion. My father’s cousin, Jack, was many of the first Cooper cousins I connected with who helped with photos and family stories. His sister, Doris, was also a great help as she was excited over our family history. Doris also met me in Salt Lake City for family research in 2003. I even took two trips to visit them in         Arizona.

Growing up, I remember visiting my grandaunt, Edith Richter Cooper, 
with my parents whenever we were in California. 

In 2005, both Jack and Doris came to visit me and my mother, 
along with my aunt Eileen, their cousin. 

We lost Jack in 2011 and Doris in 2012. I miss them both. I treasure the opportunity I had connecting with them and renewing our “adult” family relationships.

I recently made a trip to Hollywood to find out more about Uncle Edwin. This adventure continues in my next blog post. 

Sources:
1. Filmmaker IQ. The History of Sound at the Movies. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot5IryUt9SM. 
2. The Jazz Singer. Wikipedia. 
3. Auto Engineering Society. Motion Picture Sound Part 1. http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/recording.technology.history/motionpicture1.html

Alexander Sisson Cooper (1854-1927) Part 1

Alexander Sisson COOPER is the third child, second son of Austin COOPER and Elizabeth GIBSON. He was born 3 Oct 1854 in Marlinstown, Westmeath, Ireland, according to the family Bible. See previous post. http://familyfilmfabricfood.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-old-cooper-bible.html

By 1875, I find him in Dublin. He married Laura Jane BOYD on 17 Jul 1875 in St. Anne Church in the Parish of St. Anne. I find the marriage register by writing to Roscommon after finding their names in the index found online from Salt Lake City. 

Dublin, Ireland. Ireland Marriage Records. 1875. Quarter 3. Vol. 12. Page 495.Civil Registration Office, Roscommon, Ireland. Accessed June 2008.

The groom is listed as Alexander Sisson Cooper, age 20, a bachelor, occupation as a clerk, living at 27 Upper Buckingham St. His father is Austin COOPER, also a clerk. 

The bride is listed as Laura Jane BOYD, age 21, a spinster, no profession, living at 14 South Frederick St. (which is right around the corner from the church). Her father is William BOYD, a what? I could not figure out his occupation. The witnesses are listed as J. C. Boyd and Edward Grange. (The same week-June 2008- I received this record from Roscommon; on Ancestry.com, I was contacted by some Boyds in Australia, who just discovered an older sister of six younger brothers, two who emigrated to Australia before 1878.) These are the third cousins I visited in Australia in October 2016.

I was in Dublin back in 2010. I spent an afternoon walking around St. Stephen’s Green and Merrion Square. (More about that story later.) I tried to visit St. Anne’s. The door was locked on a Monday afternoon.

Years later, I was able to find this same marriage registration online, but a different written copy which answered the question of William BOYD's occupation, a Commercial Traveller!! 

https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-344-3-6-022

I find Alexander and Laura Jane listed next in the 1901 Irish Census.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai003707038/

Alexander Cooper is listed as the Head of the Household and family are all listed as Protestants with the Church of Ireland. The family can read and write. He is 44 and a Bookkeeper. He is married and born in the County of Westmeath. His wife, Laura Cooper is listed as Wife. Age 47, born in Scotland. She is crossed out. I later find her listed with her mother, Jane CARRICK Boyd on the evening of 31 March 1901. More about that when I write about the Carricks.

The children are listed as:

Laura Cooper, daughter, 24, clerk, single, born in the City of Dublin.

John Cooper, son, 14, scholar, single, born in the City of Dublin.

Edwin Cooper, son, 12, scholar, single, born in the City of Dublin.

Alexander Cooper, son, 10, scholar, single, born in the City of Dublin.

I am familiar with these four children listed, as all of them came to the US from 1905-1908, as well as their father, Alexander S. Cooper, Sr. I hunt down their birth/baptism records finding six more children. 

Child #1 - Laura Jane Cooper born 29 Jan 1876 Dublin, Ireland. MF#255,946

"Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FG2P-VT5 : 8 December 2014), Laura Jane Cooper, 29 Jan 1876; citing Dublin, Ireland, reference v 2-2 p 580; FHL microfilm 255,946. Accessed 25 May 2005.

Child #2 - Male Cooper born 9 June 1877 Dublin, Ireland. MF#255,980 

"Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGXF-5RG : 8 December 2014), Cooper, 09 Jun 1877; citing Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, reference v 7-2 p 591; FHL microfilm 255,980 : accessed 24 Sep 2009.

Child #3 - Elizabeth Cooper #1 born 4 Apr 1878 Dublin, Ireland. MF#256,003

"Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGKG-ZM9: 8 December 2014), Elizabeth Cooper, 04 Apr 1878; citing Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, reference v 2-2 p 550; FHL microfilm 256,003: accessed Feb 2006.

Elizabeth died 6 hours later due to premature birth. 

Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, "Civil Records," database with images, IrishGenealogy.ie (https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/: accessed 14 January 2021), image, death registration of Elizabeth Cooper (4 April 1878, 142 North Strand Road, North Dublin,  County of Dublin, city of Dublin), citing Group Registration ID 7008735; registration filed 4 April 1878 by J. P. Nowlan, in North Dublin Registration District, J. R. Ferguson Register, folio 439, “First page,” stamped no. 07198165, entry 114.

Child #4 - Austin Sisson Cooper born 27 Apr 1879 Dublin, Ireland. MF#256,028

"Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGLB-43J : 8 December 2014), Austin Sisson Cooper, 27 Apr 1879; citing Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, reference v 2-2 p 586; FHL microfilm 256,028 :  accessed Feb 2006.  

Child #5 - Elizabeth Cooper #2 born 30 Apr 1881 Dublin, Ireland. MF#906,717 

Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, register of labour patients, master's ward book; records of births, admissions and discharges, 1797-1882. Master's Ward Book Vol. 4 1879-1881. Microfilm #906,707 Salt Lake City. Accessed 23 Sep 2009. 

On my second trip to Salt Lake City in 2009 for research in the Family History Library, one of my goals was to focus on Dublin Hospital birth records and Birth Registrations that were available there. On the last page of the Master’s Ward Book Vol. 4 1879-1881 I found the following. This only listed these facts. Bed No. - 83. Name of Mother - Laura Cooper. Age - 26. Date & Condition of Patient on Admission - 30th. No. of Pregnancy - 5. Date & Hour of Delivery - 30th & 5 hrs. Hours ill - 3. Length of 2nd Stage in Hours - 1/2. Length of 3rd Stage in Minutes - 12. Sex & State of Child Now Born - F & 6 1/4.  Total # of Births at Viable Period - 2 males 3 females. [On next page not posted here.] Result to Child - [blank]. Result to Mother - May. 7". This does not list name of child. I found this unindexed document going through microfilms page by page. I found this on the last page[s]. 

I later find Elizabeth's baptism record with the matching above date.

https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-298-2-9-042

Child #6 - Female Cooper born 10 Apr 1884. Dublin, Ireland. 

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1884/02692/1991510.pdf

Interesting to see the father listed as a Robert Cooper. I connected with my distant cousin who collaborates with me over our BOYD side of the tree. The address listed here matches with Laura's mother, Jane CARRICK Boyd and maternal grandmother, Ellen CARRICK (died in 1885) at this time. Robert must be an error from the person who recorded this birth who was present at birth. 

Child #7 - John Carrick Cooper born 5 Nov 1886 Dublin, Ireland. Roscommon order. See blog posts about John Carrick Cooper (my grandfather) in six parts. Now online. See below.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1886/02583/1954474.pdf

https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-298-2-9-085

Child #8 - Edwin Irwin Cooper born 9 Jan 1889 Dublin, Ireland.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1889/02486/1922640.pdf

https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-45-2-18-102

Child #9 - Alexander Sisson Cooper, Jr. born 24 Mar 1891 Dublin, Ireland. 

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1891/02390/1891537.pdf

https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-45-2-18-125

Child #10 - Samuel Pearson Cooper born  12 Oct 1894. Dublin, Ireland. Samuel Pearson Cooper died a year later on 4 Oct 1995.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1894/02240/1843764.pdf

https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-751-2-1-088

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1895/05916/4679531.pdf

I find Laura Jane BOYD Cooper in the [2 April] 1911 census by herself in Dublin.  

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000192382/

It states that she is married for 36 years. It lists that 5 children are still alive of birthing 11 children. I know this includes her 4 children who came to the United States and one Elizabeth who married with a family by 1911. See “The Letter That Started It All”). So, yes, she had one more child, which I now need to search for their birth records. Most of these Ireland BMD Records can now be found online at Irish Genealogy.ie. https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/ which are referred to above.

She died on 28 Nov 1921, in Dublin, at Meath Hospital, age 65, Cancer of the Liver for 5 years & ???? (Can anyone read this?) for 3 months. It states she was still married as a wife of a clerk. 

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1921/05085/4395624.pdf

I asked my aunt if she was ever told why Laura Jane Boyd Cooper, her grandmother, remained in Ireland as she said "Good-bye" to her husband and four of her children as they left for the United States, some to never return home to Ireland again. My aunt told me Laura Jane was sickly and she felt she did not have the strength to cross the Atlantic Ocean. 

I feel both Alexander and Laura Jane wanted a better future for their surviving younger four children by the turn of the century because of the political upheaval in Ireland at the time for independence. My cousin contains a century old scrapbook with newspaper articles covering these troubled times before Ireland's Independence from England. Two children, Elizabeth Cooper Corcoran and Austin Sisson Cooper remained in Ireland. Or did they?

Alexander Sisson COOPER's adventures in America will continue in my next blog.