Mentioned in Will.1

of Thomas Lambe - probated 1768
Described as - "my daughter Mary Lambe spinster"

Licence obtained for marriage to Robert Harris COOPER in Faculty Office.6

Groom - Robert Harris Cooper
Bride - Mary Lambe

From the Marriage Licence :-
Faculty Office
"On which day appeared personally Robert Harris Cooper and made Oath that he is of the parish of Saint Mary Newington in the County of Middlesex a Bachelor aged twenty five years and upwards, and intendeth to intermarry with Mary Lambe of the parish of South Weald in the County of Essex Spinster aged twenty one years and upwards, and in which parish she hath had her usual place of abode for the space of four weeks last past.
He this Deponent not knowing or believing any lawful Let or Impediment by mean of any Precontract, Consanguinity, Affinity or any other lawful means whatsoever to hinder the said intended Marriage and prayed a Licence to Solemnize the said Marriage in the Parish Church of South Weal aforesaid.
R. H. Cooper"

Mentioned in Will.2

of Hannah Lambe née Steare
Described as :-
"my daughter Mary Cooper the wife of Robert Harris Cooper"

Mentioned in Codicil to Will.2

of Hannah Lambe née Steare
Described as :-
"my daughter Mary Cooper the wife of Robert Harris Cooper"

Died in Turnford.3

From the General Evening Post :-
"Last Wednesday died, at Turnford, Herts, the lady of Robert Harris Cooper, Esq; Portugal merchant"

Buried in Bunhill Fields.4

From the Parish Register :-
In a vault
Parish of abode - Cheshunt

Research Note :-
Cheshunt Parish covered the area of Turnford.

Legal in High Court of Chancery.5

Hopkins v. Towle

"Hannah Lambe by her Will devised to J. Fullager and Thomas Towle ... ... ..."

Testatrix bequeathed one moiety of the Residue of her Personal Estate to her Daughter Hannah, for her separate use, during the joint lives of her and her Husband; and, if she survived, to her absolutely; if not, to her children who should obtain 21; and the other moiety for the benefit of her Daughter Mary and her Children; with a Bequest over, if she died without children, to Hannah and her children, in like manner as the first moiety. By a codicil she bequeathed the whole Residue, if both her daughters died without leaving a child show should attain 21, to the Appellant. Both the Daughters dies without Issue, but Hannah survived her Husband; held neverless, that Appellant was entitled to the Residue"

The Appellants were the sons of the brothers of the Testatrix, Hannah Lambe.

Married Robert Harris COOPER