NameWilliam COUP, 5G Grandfather
Birthabt 1731, North Leverton, Nottinghamshire
Baptism20 Sep 1731, North Leverton, Nottinghamshire
DeathJun 1813, North Leverton, Nottinghamshire
Burial29 Jun 1813, St. Martin’s, North Leverton
OccupationTailor
Spouses
Birthabt 1731
Deathabt Jan 1794
Burial6 Jan 1794, North Leverton, Nottinghamshire
Marriage14 Aug 1763, South Leverton, Nottinghamshire
Notes for William COUP
Name, trade, baptism date and location and burial date and location from a descendant John Coupe.
Parish Records - St. Martin, North Leverton cum Habblesthorpe
Coupe’s Child September ye 20th, 31 [1731?, baptism?]
[This seems to be written, with others on a strip and pasted along the edge of the paper which has 1731 and other years.]
UK Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices’ Indentures
February 6 1772 William Coup of North Leverton in the County of Nottingham, Taylor, Sampson Ream?
UK Land Tax Redemption
North Leverton, Nottinghamshire
Proprietor William Coupe, occupier self, sums assessed 9 shillings 5 pence, May 6 1799
Proprietor William Coupe, occupier William Cuthbert, 2 shillings, 4 1/2 pence
[It is possible this is his son William Coupe who would be 23 years of age at the time.]
Parish Records - St. Martin, North Leverton cum Habblesthorpe
Gervas Coupe & Rebecca ???? [transribed Adsets] were mars by banns May 18th, 1730
[Could this be Williams parents. married about a year before he was born?]
[Note: William & Elizabeth Coupe had a daughter Rebecca]
Gervis Coupe buried January ye 10th, 1773
Also UK Register of Apprentice Indentures, March 25 1717 ffrancis Adsetts of Nottingham Taylor, apprentice: Jervas son of Jervas Coupe of Derby, 25 September 1717
[Could jervas or Gervas Coupe apprenticed to Francis Adsetts for 7 years, then married his daughter about 6 years after completing the apprenticeship?]
[Note William Coupe was a Taylor.]
Notes for Elizabeth (Spouse 1)
Name, approximate birth year, marriage date and location and burial date and location from a descendant John Coupe.
England Select Marriages
William Coup and Eliz. Kirkby All Saints, South Leverton, Nottingham, England
[South Leverton is about 1 kilometre south of North Leverton.]
Parish Records All Saints, South Leverton, Nottinghamshire
William Coup of the parish of North Leverton and
Elizabeth Kirkby of this parish
Married in this Church by Banns
this 14th Day of August 1763
by me Thomas Hurst, Vicar
This marriage was solemnized between us William Coup, ELiz: Kirkby
In the presence of James Wrigglesworth?, and J Bingham