Cope of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England
John Cope b 1355, of Denshanger, Northamptonshire, England, d abt 1415. He md Joan abt 1386. She was b abt 1368, of Northamptonshire, England, d 1434.
Child of John Cope and Joan was:

William Cope b abt 1395, of Denshanger, Northamptonshire, England. He md Daughter
Gossage
, abt 1420, daughter of William Gossage. She was b abt 1400, of Spratton, Northamptonshire.
Child of William Cope and Daughter Gossage was:

Alexander Cope b abt 1425, of Spratton, Northamptonshire, England. Wife unknown.
Child of Alexander Cope was:

William Cope b abt 1462, of Grimsby, Northamptonshire, England, d 1513, of Hanwell, Oxfordshire, England. He md [1] Agnes Harcourt 1470, [2] Jane Spencer bef 1496, daughter of Sir John Spencer, Knight, and Ann Empson.
Children of Wiliam Cope and Jane Spencer were:

  • Anthony Cope b 1496, of Hodnell, Warwickshire, England, d 1551; md Jane Crew.
  • William Cope b 1500, of Hodnell, Warwickshire, England.
  • Sir John Cope b abt 1504.
Sir John Cope b abt 1504, Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England, d 22 Jan 1558. He md Bridget Raleigh abt 1525, prob Northamptonshire, England, daughter of Sir Edward Raleigh, Knight, and Anne Chamberlain.
Children of Sir John Cope and Bridget Raleigh were:
  • Erasmus Cope b abt 1526, prob Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England.
  • George Cope b abt 1528, prob Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England.
  • Elizabeth Cope b 1529.
  • Anthony Cope b abt 1531, prob Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England; d young.
  • Anthony Cope b abt 1533, prob Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England, d 1558.
  • Joan Cope b abt 1535, prob Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England; md Stephen Boyle abt 1560, Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England.
Elizabeth Cope b 1529, Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England. She md John Dryden abt 1553.


SOURCES:
AR: Line 14[38-39]; SGM: Ronny Bodine [ref: The History of Parliament 1386-1421, Baker's History of Northamptonshire]; David Blackwell, [ref: The American Ancestors of Oratio Dyer Clark and of His Wife Laura Ann King, together with the ancestry of Anne Hutchinson, by John Edwin Salisbury, 1917].

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