Click on the link to download a report showing the descendants of Samuel Cooper - please email if you can add more and I will update the file
Samuel Cooper File

Cooper Alice 14 Sep 1890 Warnslow/Mary AnnTravellerHawker born 11 May 1882
Cooper Oliver 14 Sep 1890 Warnslow/Mary AnnTravellerHawker born17 May 1889
Cooper Walter 3 Sep 1893 Warnslow/Mary AnnTravellerLicenced Hawker born 7 Mar 1893
Cooper Major 5 Jul 1891 Spicer/Alice St Giles Farnborough Kent Travellers fruit picker born 28 mar 1891
Cooper Frederick 10 Jul 1892 Spicer/Alice St Giles Farnborough Kent Labourer Born 21 Aug 1888
Cooper Mary 4 Feb 1894 Spicer/Alice Walton on the Hill Surrey Sojouner
Cooper William 16 Jul 1899 Spicer/Alice All Saints Orpington Kent Fruit Pickers
Cooper Cinnamentia 9 Jul 1893 Lucy St Giles Farnborough Kent Base born 8 Jul 1893
Cooper Walter 11 Jun 1899Lucy St Giles Farnborough Kent Gipsey
Cooper(Lee Crossed Out) William4 Nov 1900 Isaac/AliceSt Giles Farnborough Kent Travellers Born 11 Sep 1900(William Was the child of Isaac Lee and Alice Cooper)
Cooper Mary Ann 9 Aug 1817 Ambrose/Hannah Beckenham Kent Traveller Born 9 Aug 1817
Cooper Rachel 30 Jun 1895 William/Amy All Saints Orpington Kent Traveller Born 13 Jan 1895
Cooper Jane 13 Feb 1898 Leander St Giles Farnborough Kent

http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/gypsy/images/hcoop.jpg This link shows a picture of Harry and Dick Cooper ( Harry the larger man seated and Dick the man at the front of the photo). Some people have said they are the sons of a Gypsy called Billy Cooper. However, according to some information provided by Robert Dawson they may have been the children of Samuel Cooper (my direct ancestor). Can anyone give me conclusive proof one way or another?

The Croydon Chronicle & East Surrey Advertiser

22 March 1856 Death of the King of the Gipsies
On thursday last, Mr W Carter, coroner for the eastern division of Surrey, held an inquest at the George the Fourth Tavern, Gipsy Hill, Norwood, on the body of Samuel Cooper, aged 62 years, well known in almost every part of the country as the king or chief of the gipsies, being the last of the 11 sons of the last king, who enjoyed a very unenviable notoriety, especially in the county of Surrey. The deceased was married twice, and the second wife, who died some time since, was, it is understtod, the widow of one of Cooper's brothers, who was killed by another brother. From the evidence given at the inquiry, which lasted some time, it appeared that the family of Coopers had been located at Norwood for many years, on a small piece of land, where they lived in tents and carts, and they never proceeded on any of their wanderings without leaving one of their children or a horse or a dog to hold posession of the land, which they claimed as their freehold. The land, however, was required by the Crystal Palace Railway, and only lately some arrangement had been come to by the company with the family. On Wednesday, while the deceased was at work, the chimney of the house in which he resided caught fire, and in consequence of some bricks having been remoed from the flue, the flames rushed through the aperture towards the roof, and the building was in greatest danger of being burned to the ground. At this time Cooper and two of his sons mounted the roof and by means of some sacks, saturated with water, extinguished the flames. While on the top of the house the deceased placed his hands on his side and exclaimed to his son, Nelson Cooper, "I feel very giddy, I shall fall." He was then persuaded to seat himself in the gutter of the house, to prevent his falling, but scarcely had he done so when he suddenly expired. The deceased had for several days before his death complained of a great difficulty breathing, and palpitations of the heart, for which he received medical assistance. A verdict to the effect that the deceased died from natural causes was returned by the jury. The inquiry caused a great deal of interest amongst all classes of inhabitants of Norwood and vincinity, the deceased being well known as claiming the title, and being recognised by his own tribes as the King of the Gipsies of England.

The following information was given to me from Tiggi

1882 Saturday July 1st Wisconin Two members of the anicent tribes of Cooper and Taylor were married with protestant rites at St Mary's Church East Moulsey in England the other day prior to the marriage ceremony a baby belonging to the Cooper family was baptized. The church was crowded with gypsies who were in the neighbourhood to attend the Hampton races. Almost all the gypsies present were profusely decorated in wild flowers.