Catherine Cooper

Catherine Farquharson was born 06/11/1780; baptised 17/01/1782 at St Elizabeth, Jamaica. Her parents were Charles Farquharson MD and Frances Tatham Smith. She married John Maybelle Cooper in the 1790s; they had probably five children: Frances Charlotte, Margaret, John Maybelle, William Salmon, and Charles Farquharson. Their eldest daughter, Frances Charlotte, married John Salmon Jr (q.v.) in 1820.

Catherine Cooper was a slave-owner: St Elizabeth (1817-1823) and Westmoreland (1826). Some enslaved were registered by (Hon.) John Salmon as her attorney in St Elizabeth in 1817, and Catherine Cooper herself registered 10 and 7 enslaved people (St Elizabeth, 1820 and 1823); then 3 in Westmoreland in 1826.

She died in 1858.

We are grateful to David Barker for assistance in compiling this entry.

Families from Registers and Wills, Descendants of Charles Farquharson, Jamaican Family Search; last reference here - -’Relict of John Mable Cooper’; Jamaican and English Baptism records; London, England, C of E Baptisms, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938, St George Bloomsbury, 1820; Slave Registers 1817 to 1826, St Elizabeth and Westmoreland; ‘Sacred to the Memory of Catherine Cooper, Relict of John Mable Cooper, born November 6th 1780, died August 4th 1858’, Global, Find a Grave Index, St Andrew, Jamaica, 1858.