1 gen 1638 anni - cooper

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The specialist woodworker who made barrels, casks and tubs. 1272 ‘Thomas the<i> Couper’</i>, Wombleton (YRS82/184); 1297 ‘John <i>le Coupere</i>’s house’, Wakefield (YRS29/288). The surname was late to stabilise and the by-name is found into the fifteenth century. In 1424-5, for example, the fabric rolls for Ripon contain this entry: <i>Item Thomae Colleper pro v garthys ligneis, 5d</i> (SS81/152). It had several attributive uses, and an undated set of York ordinances, probably of the fifteenth century, referred to <i>les artificers del coupercraft </i>(SS120/68). Later examples are: 1564 <i>Certein cowper timbre</i> valued at 7s, Clint (SS104/96); 1638 <i>a good quantitie of tymber for seilinge and cowpers ware</i>, Bradfield (YAJ5/382).

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