Person:Joseph Copley (7)

Personal History

Joseph William Copley,^[1][2] son of Joseph Copley and Cecil^[1] (Hamilton), was born on 26 July 1804, and he was baptized on 13 August in the parish of St Marylebone, Middlesex, England.^[1]

Joseph William, the only son of Sir Joseph Copley Bt., matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, on 25 April 1823, then aged 18 years.^[4]

Upon the death of his father on 21 May 1838, Joseph succeeded to the Baronetcy (4th, created 1778).

Marriage and Family

(see the Family page for references)

On 19 November 1831 in the mansion house at Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, Joseph William Copley of Sprotborough Hall, Yorkshire, and the Hon. Charlotte Anderson Worsley Pelham of the parish of Brocklesby were married by special licence by the rector, John Parkinson, in the presence of Joseph Copley [groom's father] and Lord Yarborough [bride's father, then Baron and later Earl].

Death and Probate

Sir Joseph William Copley Bt., then of Sprotborough Hall, in Sprotborough, Yorkshire, died 4 January 1883 at 35 Duke street, in the parish of St. James, Middlesex^[2] (registered in the district of Westminster^[3]).

On 7 April 1883, at London,^[2] his will was proved by the executors, the Rev. William Bridgeman Simpson of Babworth Rectory, Nottinghamshire, and the Rev. Arthur Henry Faber of Sprotborough, Yorkshire. His personal estate was in the amount of £86,755-6-11.

The Baronetcy became extinct at Joseph's death.

Resources

Transcribed sources:

• Cokayne, George Edward. Complete Baronetage. (Exeter: Pollard, 1900–1906). In vol. V, p. 200, under “COPLEY”, see IV. “Sir Joseph William Copley, Baronet”.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Church of England. Parish of St Marylebone (Middlesex). Parish Registers, 1668–1925. (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969–2002)
   London Metropolitan Archives, City of London P89/MRY1/084 [Day book of baptisms, May 1803–Dec. 1809].

   Digital image in London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1624/31280_194665-00250 : accessed 3 May 2018).
   
   [1804 August] “13 Joseph Will^m. of Joseph Copley Esq^r. & the Honble Lady Cecil Copley b 26 July”

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} “Wills and Administrations, 1883”, in Principal Probate Registry (London). Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration: Made in the Principal Registry and in the Several District Registries of Her Majesty's Court of Probate. (London, United Kingdom: HM Stationery Office, [1859?]–present)
   vol 3, p 337, COPLEY Sir Joseph William Bart.

   Digital image in England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1904/31874_222756-00342 : accessed 14 Nov. 2017).
   
   Will with codicil of Sir Joseph William Copley late of Sprotborough Hall, co. York, baronet, died 4 Jan. 1883 at 35 Duke-street, St. James, co. Middlesex, proved 7 April at Principal Registry by Rev. William Bridgeman Simpson of Babworth Rectory, co. Nottingham, clerk, and Rev. Arthur Henry Faber of Sprotborough, co. York, clerk rector of Sprotborough, the exors.; personal estate £86,755 6s 11d.

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} England. General Register Office. General Index: Deaths Registered in England and Wales in the Months of January, February and March, 1883
   p 76.

   “Copley, Joseph William”, age 78, Westminster dist., vol. 1a, p. 363.

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Foster, Joseph, and University of Oxford. Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886: their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of their degrees. (Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1888, 1891)
   1: 296.

   “Copley, (Sir) Joseph William (Bart.), o.s. Joseph, of St. Marylebone, Middlesex, baronet. Christ Church, matric. 25 April, 1823, aged 18; 4th baronet, died s.p. 4 Jan., 1883. See Foster's Baronetage.”