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488. Katherine Fitzgerald Cooper (Cahterine Cooper) (Catherine Copper) (Married Thomas Chancellor (#487) on 3 March 1723/24 by the Rev. Mr. David Stuart, Rector of St. Paul's Parish, Stafford County, Virginia) (Source: The Wroe and Chancellor Families Compiled by William Clarke Wroe, 1992, page 65. )

 

Born: 17?? 1705 in Copla Parish, Westmoreland, Virginia (another says about 1710) (another says 1700) of Dr. John Cooper (#975) and Lady Katherine Fitzgerald (#976)

Died: about 1767 in Westmoreland, Virginia (another says Prince William County, Virginia)

 

[She had no siblings]

 

Miscellaneous:

The marriage of Thomas Chancellor and Katherine Fitzgerald Cooper is recorded on a plaque in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Stafford Co. VA (south of Washington DC).

"Thomas Chancellor and Katherine Fitzgerald Cooper, according to family oral tradition, are said to have eloped. Nevertheless, Dr. Cooper followed the custom of the times by making a gift to his newly married daughter and son-in-law. On March 6, 1724, he conveyed by deed 100 acres of land in Nominy, Westmoreland County, 'for and in consideration of the paternal love and affection which I have and do bear unto my son-in-law Thomas Chancellor and for the present advancement of my daughter Katherine, his wife, to them and their heirs forever- said 100 acres formerly purchased by me 1 August 1720 of John Shapperd.' Dr. Cooper also gave the young couple 'one Negro slave named Sam,' the latter transaction recorded April 29, 1724." (Source of this quote is The Wroe and Chancellor Families Compiled by William Clarke Wroe, 1992, page 67.) [Note: If Thomas and Katherine eloped, it is unknown why William Clarke Wroe would have a record of Rev. Mr. David Stuart, Rector of St. Paul's Parish conducting the wedding ceremony on 3 March 1723/24 as stated at the top of this page.]

"Thomas and his wife Katherine had six children: (1) John, (2) Katherine, (3) Grace (#244), (4) Rebecca, (5) Thomas, and (6) Sarah." (Source is The Wroe and Chancellor Families Compiled by William Clarke Wroe, 1992, page 67.)

Thomas and Katherine's daughter Grace married William Wroe and their daughter Sarah married William's half brother Benjamin. Four Chancellor daughters married four Wroe brothers. John Chancellor, married Jane Monroe in 1747, and they had 7 children, several of whom married Wroes. Jane Monroe was the only paternal aunt of President James Monroe. (The information about John Chancellor and Jane Monroe is from The Wroe and Chancellor Families Compiled by William Clarke Wroe, 1992, pages 87-88.)

 

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