Cope Family History
- Cope Name Meaning
- English (common in the Midlands): from Middle English cope ‘cloak’, ‘cape’ (from Old English cap reinforced by the Old Norse cognate kápa), hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made cloaks or capes, or a nickname for someone who wore a distinctive one. Compare Cape.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,146,924 Historical Documents with Cope on Ancestry
- 386,682 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 214,953 Census and Voter Lists
- 29,455 Military Records
- 17,874 Immigration Records
- 497,960 Member Trees
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Number of Cope families
 938 - 1,873  313 - 937 |
 1 - 312  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cope families
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51 - 100 18 - 50 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Cope census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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