Re: Kneeland/Cooper connection??
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Re: Kneeland/Cooper connection??
Kurt Kneeland 12/05/01
Found something I missed doing the last posting.There is a Lennox, MA connection.Charles Kneeland (Sr.) apparently moved there with his whole family sometime after the birth of his youngest child, Anna, in 1836, but prior to her death in 1858.All of his children died young and are buried there. George (b. 1832) and Henry (b. 1834), both died on June 13, 1859, and Charles Jr. (b. 1830) died in 1866.Charles Jr. married Louise Taintor in Hartford Ct in 1854, and then had 3 reported children in Lennox MA in 1856-1861 (but no Clarissa listed).
Option 1 is that Clarissa is a 4th child of this marriage, of whom we have no previous record, and Louise Taintor Kneeland remarried to a Cooper who subsequently adopted Clarissa (and perhaps the others).
Option 2 is that Charles Jr's going off to war was a result of breaking up with Louise, and that Clarissa was a result of his relationship (may or may not have been second wife) with another woman, Clarrisa Alagher, who may have subsequently married a Cooper.
In any event, I now think the most likely possibility is that Charles Kneeland, Jr. is your Charles Kneeland Cooper, and that Clarissa was born Clarrisa Kneeland and became a Cooper by adoption.
You may want to watch the postings about Henry Kneeland (Sr and Jr) of NY City since they're closely related (grand-father and uncle, repectively) of Charles Kneeland Jr.