I have updated the site for the first time in three and a half years. In the past few years my brother Michael Cooper has been working backwards from our generation to see if he can tie our family into the baronial lineage. This is a monumental task as many of you can appreciate and may never be completed. However, the information he has gathered to date is here.

Therefore I have split the site into two

HISTORICAL NOTES of the BARONIAL HOUSE OF BULMER and ITS DESCENDANTS - AD 1042 TO 1750

The Bulmer & Cooper Families from 1700 – from William Bulmer to Elizabeth Mary Anne Cooper

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What's New

Front page rewritten

Bulmer pages 1700 to present added

31 October 2000

Menu to left redesigned

Search Engine added

5 March 2000

General housekeeping

Map pages added

Note on York Minster added