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 COPE



Origin: English

Coat of Arms: A silver shield with three gold fleur de lis on a blue chevron between three red roses.

Crest: A greyhound.lost tribe genealogy

Motto: Equo adeste animo.
Cope coat of arms English

Origin: English

Spelling variations include: Cope, Coap, Coape, Copes and others.

First found in Leicestershire where they were seated from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Edward Cope who settled in Rhode Island whose sons Richard and William became noted shoemakers of Boston; Giles Cope who settled in Virginia in 1654; William Cope settled in Barbados in 1680.




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