{"id":6072,"date":"2020-09-17T11:24:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T01:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?page_id=6072"},"modified":"2021-08-23T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T01:36:09","slug":"simon-cooper-and-margaret-heydon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?page_id=6072","title":{"rendered":"Simon Cooper and Margaret Heydon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simon Cooper<\/strong> senior was born in 1649 in Watlington, Oxfordshire, England to parents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?page_id=6096\">Thomas Cooper (1623-1700) and Joane West (1626-1695).<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6101\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/All-Saints-Shirburn-Oxfordshire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6101\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6101\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/All-Saints-Shirburn-Oxfordshire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All Saints Shirburn Oxfordshire<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thomas and Joane had married on 12 June 1648 at nearby Shirburn, Oxfordshire, about a mile away from Watlington. Simon was one of nine children born to the couple.<\/p>\n<p>Watlington\u00a0is a\u00a0market town\u00a0and\u00a0civil parish\u00a0about 7 miles (11\u00a0km) south of\u00a0Thame in Oxfordshire, near the county&#8217;s eastern edge and less than 2 miles (3 km) from its border with Buckinghamshire.<\/p>\n<p>It claims to be reputedly the smallest town in England with a dominating 17th century town hall and many historic buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Five episodes of the TV series\u00a0<i>Midsomer Murders<\/i>\u00a0have been filmed partly in Watlington, with the library featuring as Midsomer Library.<sup id=\"cite_ref-31\" class=\"reference\">\u00a0<\/sup>At least one episode of the TV series\u00a0<i>Inspector Morse<\/i> was filmed partly in Watlington.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6072 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?attachment_id=6082'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Watlington-Town-Hall-17th-century-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6082\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6082'>\n\t\t\t\tWatlington Town Hall 17th century\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?attachment_id=6080'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Watlington-village-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6080\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6080'>\n\t\t\t\tWatlington village\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?attachment_id=6079'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Watlington-village-street-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6079\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6079'>\n\t\t\t\tWatlington village street\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Simon Cooper married Margaret Heydon \/ Haiden on 28 July 1672 at Watlington by banns.<\/p>\n<p>Simon and Margaret had seven children &#8211;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Robert b 1670 d 1691 Watlington<\/li>\n<li>Jane b 1674 Watlington<\/li>\n<li>John b 1677 d 1680 Watlington<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?page_id=6071\"><strong>Simon<\/strong> <\/a>b 1679 Watlington d 1751 Chalford, marr Mary Brooks. 7 children.<\/li>\n<li>Margaret b 1682 &amp; d 1721 Watlington, marr Edward Clack. 3 children.<\/li>\n<li>Hannah b 1684 Watlington<\/li>\n<li>John b 1686 Watlington<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"attachment_6081\" style=\"width: 309px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/St-Leonards-Watlington-gate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6081\" class=\" wp-image-6081\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/St-Leonards-Watlington-gate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/St-Leonards-Watlington-gate.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/St-Leonards-Watlington-gate-300x195.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/St-Leonards-Watlington-gate-1024x664.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/St-Leonards-Watlington-gate-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St Leonards Watlington gated entrance<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Cooper died in 1695 at Watlington.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband Simon Cooper died in December 1714 and was buried in Watlington on 5 December 1714.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Cooper senior was born in 1649 in Watlington, Oxfordshire, England to parents Thomas Cooper (1623-1700) and Joane West (1626-1695). Thomas and Joane had married on 12 June 1648 at nearby Shirburn, Oxfordshire, about a mile away from Watlington. Simon &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?page_id=6072\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6072","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7883,"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6072\/revisions\/7883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}