Researching Joan Cooper
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 72849 people with the Cooper surname? In that year Cooper was ranked number 30 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Joan means "God's gracious gift" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Joan Cooper on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Joan Cooper and the Cooper Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 94703 people with the Cooper surname in the UK? Cooper is now ranked number 32 for popularity in the UK. |
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Joan Cooper
Joan Cooper (23 August 1922 – 1 July 1989) was a British actress.
Her second husband was the actor Arthur Lowe whom she met at the Manchester Repertory Theatre in 1946. They were married at the Register Office, Strand, London, in January 1948. She had three children – Jane Gatehouse and David Gatehouse (children from a previous marriage) and Stephen Lowe (born 1953 at Hammersmith, London, UK).
She had some minor roles alongside him, particularly playing Private Godfrey's sister Dolly in some episodes of Dad's Army.
Lowe died in April 1982, and five years later she moved to his parents' cottage in Hayfield, Derbyshire, which had been vacant since his mother's death in 1981. Cooper lived there until her death from stomach cancer two years later at the age of 66.
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