Saturday, April 29, 2017

Surname Saturday -- COPELAND (England to colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm  up to Ancestor #1779, who is Lydia COPELAND (1661-1727) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this COPELAND family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver (1943-????)

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)


6.  Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976)
7.  Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977)

12.  Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946)
13.  Abbie Ardelle "Della" Smith (1862-1944)

26.  Devier James Lamphier Smith (1849-1894)
27.  Abigail A. "Abbey" Vaux (1844-1931)

54.  Samuel Vaux (1816-1880)
55.  Mary Ann Underhill (1815-1883)

110.  Amos Underhill (1772-1865)
111.  Mary "Polly" Metcalf (1780-1855)

222. Burgess Metcalf (1741-1816)
223.  Jerusha --?-- (1750-1817)

444.  Michael Metcalf (1706-1771)
445.  Melatiah Hamant (1704-1751)

888. Michael Metcalf (1680-1761)
889. Lydia White (1686-????)

1778.  Joseph White, born 17 December 1662 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 28 August 1757 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 3556. Joseph White and 3557. Lydia Rogers.  He married about 1681 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
1779.  Lydia Copeland, born 31 March 1661 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 08 May 1727 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Joseph White and Lydia Copeland are:
*  Joseph White (1683-1737), married 1711 Patience Smith (1691-1784).
*  Lydia White (1686-????), married 1705 Michael Metcalf (1680-1761).
*  Thomas White (1688-1746), married 1710 Deborah Read (1696-1765).
*  Hannah White (1691-1761), married 1711 Moses Aldrich (1690-1761).
*  Abigail White (1693-1720), married 1712 John Thompson (1689-1760).
*  William White (1696-????), married 1721 Elizabeth Thayer (1695-????).
*  Benjamin White (1701-1741), married 1720 Mary Thayer (1701-????).

3558.  Laurence Copeland, born about 1628 in England; died before 25 January 1699 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 16 February 1654 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
3559.  Lydia Townsend, born 1630 in England; died 08 January 1688 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 7118. Thomas Townsend and 7119. Mary Mansfield.

Children of Laurence Copeland and Lydia Townsend are:
*  Thomas Copeland (1652-1652).
*  Thomas Copeland (1654-1706), married (1) Mercy (????-1699); (2) 1692 Mehitable Atwood (1652-1699); (3) 1699 Mary Arnold (1681-1719).
*  William Copeland (1656-1716), married 1694 Mary Bass (1669-1716).
*  John Copeland (1658-1714), married 1682 Ruth Newcomb (1658-1742).
*  Lydia Copeland (1661-1727), married 1681 Joseph White (1662-1757).
*  Ephraim Copeland (1665-1690).
*  Hannah Copeland (1668-1737), married 1735 Ephraim Jones (1672-1752).
*  Richard Copeland (1672-1672).
*  Abigail Copeland (1674-1752), married 1715 Eleazer Isgate (1674-1719).

Information about this Copeland family was obtained from:

*  Warren Turner Copeland, The Copeland Family (Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle Pub. Co., 1937).

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1 comment:

Elizabeth Handler said...

Hello cousin! My mother was a Copeland (line daughtered out after my grandfather). I wrote about my Copeland line at https://frommainetokentucky.blogspot.com/2013/02/surname-saturday-copeland-of-braintree.html.