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I have the good fortune to be married to a Copson.  My Copson is descended from a James Copson who lived in Wolston, Warwickshire in the late 18th/early 19th century.  My brother-in-law is currently waiting for results of a Y-DNA test by Family Tree DNA and I see there are 2 other Copson DNAs on the Family Tree DNA database.  They could be the first members of a new Copson Y-DNA Surname Project which would aim to establish the genetic relationships between the global Copson community.  Do you think there would be interest in this?  FTDNA offers tests at discounted rates for Surname Project members - see http://www.familytreedna.com/projects.aspx

My wife is descended from James’s son Edward who was a glover in Wolston and also owned a some land there.  In the 1840’s he was one of two Edward Copsons living in the Wolston area.  The other lived in the nearby hamlet of Brandon and was a more affluent landowner and farmer.  He was descended from Thomas Copson of Sheepy Magna, Leicestershire.  Thomas’s descendants include a Lt.Col Edward Copson who served in the Peninsula War  and in America in 1814.  He died at St.Lucia in the West Indies.  The Colonel’s sister Ann married Henry Windsor 8th Earl of Plymouth.

James Copson married Comfort Parson at Wolston in 1781 and their ten children were baptised there.  He may be son of Caleb Copson who had four children baptised at Wolston in the period 1768 - 1778.  Caleb was a glover of Lutterworth Leicestershire (approximately 10 miles from Wolston as the crow flies).  He married Eliza(beth) Powers at Catthorpe Leicestershire in 1760.  I have yet to research Caleb’s roots and to find James’s baptism.

We enjoy reading your Copson Chronicle - thank you for publishing it.

Best wishes

Nigel Bond

jnigelbond@yahoo.co.uk

My great grandfather was one of two sons of Ephraim Copson.  Robert was the oldest, a broom maker in the Omaha area after the Civil War.  His son Robert moved to Los Angeles and died in the 1920s.

My great grandfather was David Alington Copson, who went to Indiana on the Kentucky border, fought in the Civil War and worked with Robert in his broom making business and died in the Civil War home in Marion Indiana.  His daughter, Ethel, was my grandmother, but she died when my father was very young.

David was married prior to his marriage to my great grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Bevins Nichols and had a son Clyde who was an artist.

Do you have any additional information about any of these people?

Thank you
Linda Sheldon

“My maternal grandmother was Ethel Copson, who married Abner Edgar Cousins of New Haven, Connecticut. My grandmother always spoke of the Copsons, and told a story that her father came from near Leicester, England and settled in North-Eastern Massachusetts. When living near Boston in the 1960s, I found a William Copson’s grave marker in Lowell, Massachusetts. My kids and grandkids sometimes ask about their great grandparents and family origins, and while I have some scant info on my Dad’s side, I am very interested in further information regarding my grandmother Cousins’ (Copson) side. I noted with some interest that in Derek Copson’s entry from August 11, 1999, that there was a William Copson (name of my great-grandfather) whose wife was named Ethel (name of my grandmother).

“My grandmother was born an Episcopalian. After marriage she converted to Jewish, then after divorce to Christian Scientist, then with true inner happiness to Zen Buddhist, and finally was a follower of Gurdjieff and his explorative movement. An interesting Copson, to be sure, Grandma was an antique dealer in New York’s Greenwich Village in its heyday.”

http://picasaweb.google.com/copsons/RonaldCopsonPhoto?authkey=Gv1sRgCNy3pM3mjKDVrQE#5330655880935631330

Here is another

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Ronald published Durener Eisenbahn in 1976.

Gunther’s email address  is guenther-klebes@gmx.de

If you have information on Ronald, please let the Copson blog know as well!

(To view these photos, click on this URL.  You may need to toggle back and forth to see them both.)

http://picasaweb.google.com/copsons/YoungChappy?authkey=Gv1sRgCO6dr-e798Hi4gE#5318685566221079170

The Fighters are Young Chappy, Al Markie and Jimmy Mack. The single photo is that of my dad Bobbie Copson who when he did fight, fought under the name of Bobby Mack. All of the boys were abandoned by their father Charles J. Copson.
The were placed in different homes later to be found and raised by their step-father Christian Mack who the boys
greatly admired.

We lived the in Kensington section of Philadelphia and moved to the Bucks County area in 1951. My dad married
Anna Rose and raised four children. Loretta, Evelyn, Robert (decd) and Thomas. While living in Philadelphia
my dad worked at Artloom Carpet Company.

I am presently in touch with cousins from each of the Copson Family of Fighters by doing the family genealogy
We are all sharing information and hope to complete my project by meeting them. If any one has any information
I would be very grateful to receive it.

Thanks,
Evie (Copson) Kellett
eviekellett@verizon.net

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I noticed your website and thought I’d give you the etymology/history of the name “Copson”.  A close family friend of mine from New Zealand is called Copson and a few years back he asked me to look into his name history.

I have not read all of your site’s theories on the origin of the name but I can discount one immediately.  The name does not stem from the place name Copston Magna.  Nor is the greatest concentration of Copsons in/near Coventry.  The greatest concentration is actually further northeast.

I can also tell you that Copson is not of Scandinavian origin.  The “Copi’s Farm” idea would have lead the name to be “Copby”.

The origin is this: “Copstán” in modern English often rendered “Copstone” from the Old English “Cop” or “Coppie”, meaning hill, and “stan” (pronounced “staan”) meaning stone.  The word “cop” for hill can still be seen in Dutch and especially Frisian and Afrikaans where “koppie” is the preferred word for hill.

Therefore, to summarise, the name ‘Copson’ is derived from Anglo-Saxon (also called Old English) and was originally Copstán.

Hope this helps!