Family
William was born to Kitty Cooper, a Yorta Yorta woman; and James Cooper a white labourer.
Cooper married Annie Clarendon Murri in 1881; she died in 1889, as did their one child, Emma. Six more were born of his second marriage, to Agnes Hamilton; they were Jessie, Daniel, Gillison, Amy and Sarah. Agnes died in 1910.
His daughter Amy Charles was the matron of the first Aboriginal hostel established in Melbourne in 1959. Lynch Cooper, was an athlete who won the 1928 Stawell Gift and the 1929 World Sprint.
At age 65, William married Sarah Nelson, née McCrae, of Wahgunyah and Coranderrk. There were no children.
He has many prominent relatives. These include the church planter and Governor of South Australia, Pastor Sir Doug Nicholls and the educator Thomas Shadrach James.
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