Descendants
As noted elsewhere, the handwritten document prepared by Elizabeth Cooper in 1938 and held by the family has been the lynchpin on which my research has been performed. Additionally, some arms of the family had lodged documents pertaining to their part of the family tree with my father and these have also been available to me. Using them I have built up a fairly full family tree which can be accessed by means of the two menu items on the left, each of which opens up a new page in your browser.
I am a paying subscriber to “Ancestry” and also use their Family Tree Maker software on my PC. It is the latter that produces the information I present at the left. If you have access to the “Ancestry” website, my family tree on that site is called “VTDC” and it is Public. If you search the public trees for an appropriate family member you should arrive at my tree. Alternatively, if you are not subscribing to “Ancestry” I can give you access to my tree if you send your email address to me at my email address – here.
In presenting the family material I have covered only 5 generations. I have done this to avoid displaying information about living persons. Some of the names in the tree are the result of my personal research activities and could be incorrect. Additionally I may have missed some members of the tree. Please contact me with any appropriate additions/ corrections here.
One of Elizabeth Cooper’s handwritten documents tells us that at the time of Ann’s first husband’s death only three of their children were surviving – two males and one female. We know the identity of one of the males – Thomas Lewis – from Elizabeth Cooper’s family tree and, interestingly, this part of the tree narrowed to just one person – Susanna Lewis – who had further family. Susanna married Thomas Tiplin and this means that all the family tree members descended from Thomas Lewis will have “Tiplin” roots.
As of the time of writing this (December 2016) I am unaware of any descendants of Ann Rosser other than the “Tiplins”. From Evan Richards’ Will (Ann Rosser’s father) we know the identity of the surviving daughter of Ann Rosser to be Mary Lewis. In 1798 Mary inherited Evan Richards’ land and house. But a search by Gwent Archives on my behalf does not inform me of which land and house this was. This seems to be because the earliest land ownership records they have date only back to 1811. So in between 1798 and 1811 Mary Lewis either died or was married – or even, perhaps she sold the property. As Lewis is a fairly common name, to date I’ve not been able to determine if she married and had children.
This leaves a surviving son who would have been either John or William. Again, given the commonality of the Lewis surname I’ve been unable to find further family information on either of these sons of Ann Rosser.