Person:Godfrey Copley (3)

Name	Sir Godfrey Copley, 1st Baronet
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]^[2]	21 Feb 1623/24	1st son of William Copley, of the same, by Dorothy, da. of William Rooth, of Romley, co. Derby
Baptism^[2]	23 Mar 1623/24	Sprotbrough, co. York (W.R.), England
Marriage	Bef 1653	to Eleanor Walmesley
Title (nobility)^[1]	17 Jun 1661	“Godfrey Copley, of Sprotborough, co. York, Esq.” was created a Baronet of the Kingdom of England by Charles II.
Marriage	Bef 1663	to Elizabeth Stanhope
Death^[3]	17 Feb 1677/78	aged 53 years
Burial^[1]	21 Feb 1677/78	Sprotbrough, co. York (W.R.), England
Probate^[1]	6 Nov 1684	administration

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 COPLEY (cr. 1661) I., in Cokayne, George Edward. Complete baronetage, 1611-1800. (Exeter [England]: W. Pollard, 1900-1906)
3: 211-212.

See transcript. Buried 21 Feb. 1677[/78].
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Church of England. Parish Church of Sprotbrough. Parish registers, 1559-1901. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1988)
FHL # 1545734 item 7. From a record indexed in “England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975”, index, FamilySearch. The original source has not been verified.

Godfray Copley, s. of William Copley; b. 21 Feb 1623[/24]; bap. 23 Mar 1623[/24], Sprotbrough, co. York.
↑ “Heywood's Register, 1650-1702, Burials”, in Turner, J. Horsfall (Joseph Horsfall) (ed.); Oliver Heywood; and Thomas Dickenson. The nonconformist register, of baptisms, marriages, and deaths, compiled by the Revs Oliver Heywood & T. Dickenson, 1644-1702, 1702-1752, generally known as the Northowram or Coley register, but comprehending numerous notices of Puritans and Anti-Puritans in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, London, &c., with lists of Popish recusants, Quakers, &c. (Brighouse: J.S. Jowett, 1881)
p 55.

“Sir Godfrey Copley, High Sheriff Yorkshire died Feb 17. 16[77/]78 aged 53”