Gilbert Cope

1840 - 1928  (88 years)

• Name	Gilbert Cope
  Birth	17 Aug 1840	Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Dec 1928	Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Burial	Oakland Friends Cemetery, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Person ID	I16974	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Joseph Cope,   b. 27 Dec 1794   d. 4 Apr 1870 (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Eliza Gilbert,   b. 4 Nov 1799   d. 18 May 1862 (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	6 Apr 1838
  Family ID	F5795	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna Garrett,   b. 7 Dec 1848, Birmingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 7 Oct 1918, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	1880
  Children	+ 1. Herman Cope,   b. 21 Nov 1880, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 30 Aug 1945, Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 64 years)   2. David Garrett Cope,   b. 18 Aug 1885, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 12 Sep 1885, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 0 years) + 3. Joseph Cope,   b. 21 Nov 1886, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 27 Jun 1983, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 96 years)
  Family ID	F5798	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  The youngest of eight children, as his father was before him, Gilbert Cope was born August 17th, 1840, in East Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, two miles west of West Chester. Gilbert Cope was fifth in descent from Oliver Cope (c.1647-1697), one of William Penn's First Purchasers in England, who, arriving in Pennsylvania from Abury, Wiltshire, in 1683, settled upon his grant of land, on Naaman's Creek, just over the Circular Line, in New Castle County, present State of Delaware. It was the immigrant's son, John Cope (1691-1773), who established the family in Chester County. He chose a location on the east side of Brandywine Creek, East Bradford Township, where he purchased his land in 1712. There he lived in the employment of farmer and malster. He became a Quaker, in membership with Bradford Meeting. By his wife, Charity Jefferis (1695-1743), daughter of Robert and Jane (Chandler) Jefferis. Upon the death of his father, Gilbert Cope, in 1872, removed from the farm to West Chester, where he remained for 48 years. Upon his marriage, in 1880, he built a new house at 532 North Church Street. Here he assembled his great and unrivaled genealogical and historical collections and issued the chief of his printed works. For the safety of the most important collections he had a fireproof vault build so as to open into his library. His peculiarly retentive memory of these accumulations, aided by systematic arrangement, in wooden cabinets of his own silful handiwork, made their contents readily available to him. In 1880 he married Anna Garrett (1848-1918), daughter of David and Mary Ann (Hoopes) Garrett. Leaving a truly remarkable record of three score and ten years of devotion and contribution in his chosen field, Gilbert Cope, the widely-known Quaker genealogist and local historian, having reached the venerable age of 88 years and 4 months, died December 17th, 1928. [Extracted from Chester County Historical Society from Publications of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. X; No. 3, pp. 242-249, West Chester, Pennsylvania. March, 1929; Research: Elaine Lucas]