• Born: 1808, Hunslet, Leeds, Yorkshire, England
• Married: 18 Aug 1835, New Shoreham, Sussex, England ¹
• Died: 1862, Brighton, Sussex, England ²

  Research Notes:

In 1852 John Copley was named in the Will of his father-in-law Henry Mockett of West Firle as husband of his daughter Ann.

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INSOLVENT DEBTORS to be heard before the Judge of the County Court of Sussex, at Lewes, holden at the County Hall, Lewes, on Tuesday, the twelfth day of February, 1861, at Twelve o'clock at noon:—

JOHN BURROUGH COPLEY, formerly of the Running Horse, King-street, and late of the Mitre Tavern, 65, Queen's-road, Brighton, Victualler and Engineer, both in Brighton, in the County of Sussex, a Prisoner in the Gaol of Lewes, in the County of Sussex....

Sussex Agricultural Express, 19 January 1861, p. 5

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The licence for The Mitre Tavern, Queen's Road, Brighton, was transferred from John Borough Copley to John Cox, on Monday, 3 Mar 1862, as reported in the Brighton Gazette, 6 March 1862, p. 5

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John Copley died aged 54 years. ²