Ancestry of
John Dryden

England's First Poet Laureate

John Cope

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of John Dryden — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18 
  • Father:
  • William Cope 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Spencer   
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  • 22 Jan 1557/1558 
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  • Bridget Raleigh
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  Elizabeth Cope (Ahnentafel No:9 )

  Anthony Cope

  • Notes: 
  • Sheriff of Northamptonshire

    John Cope's surname is also seen as Coope.

• Additional marriages for John Cope

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  • Spouse:
  • Margaret Tame
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 8 May 1548

• Sources for John Cope

  • ¹ Pope, Charles Henry, ed., Paine Ancestry: The Family of Robert Treat Paine, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Including Maternal Lines, Boston: Printed for the Family (1912), 188.
  • ² Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 1, pp. 121-122.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 431.
  • ⁴ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650, Lancaster, Mass: (1950), 34.
  • ⁵ Wilkinson, M. M., Genealogy of Wilkinson and Kindred Families, Shelby, Mississippi: Shelby Book Store, Publishers (1949), 63.