Birth Name: Quade Santini Cooper
Place of Birth: Auckland, New Zealand
Date of Birth: 5 April, 1988
Ethnicity: Māori, English, some Scottish, possibly Irish
Quade Cooper is a New Zealand-born Australian rugby union player and boxer.
Quade’s mother is named Ruhia. She was eighteen when Quade was born. His biological father left when he was six months years old. Quade was raised in Tokoroa, New Zealand, and moved to Brisbane, New South Wales, Australia, when he was thirteen.
Quade is a cousin of rugby union players Sean Maitland and Cheyenne Campbell.
Quade’s paternal grandfather was Nesbit Cooper (the son of Wiremu Kape Cooper and Murungahara Mangu). Wiremi was the son of Aperahama Kopa II, who was of half English and half Māori descent, and of Matehaere Hana Pera Tunua, who was Māori. Murungahara was the daughter of Te Ahi Kapura Mangu and Raiha Hinu Cooper or Kopa, and evidently had Māori and European ancestry, possibly Irish.
Quade’s paternal grandmother was named Millie.
Quade’s maternal grandfather’s surname is Jenner.
Quade’s maternal grandmother is Carole Menzies (the daughter of Robert Bruce Menzies and Audrey Beryl Fowler). Carol was born in Lautoka, Fiji. Robert was the son of Robert Menzies, whose parents were Scottish, from Renfrewshire; and of Dorace Mae Huia Faulkner, who was of English, with roots in Whitby in Yorkshire, Nottingham, and Manchester, and one quarter Māori, ancestry. Quade’s great-grandmother Audrey was the daughter of English parents, Francis Henry Fowler, from Lancashire, and Doris Amelia Yallop, from Tottenham.
Quade’s maternal four times great-grandfather, John Lees Faulkner, was a prominent English-born trader, shipbuilder, and farmer. He was deported as convict to Tasmania, Australia, at twelve, and later settled in New Zealand, where he married a Māori woman.
Sources: https://www.nzherald.co.nz
Family history of Quade Cooper – https://www.dailymail.co.uk
Genealogies of Quade Cooper (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
https://www.familysearch.org
Genealogy of Quade’s maternal great-grandfather, Robert Bruce Menzies (through his sister) (focusing on his own mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Information about Quade’s maternal ancestor, Lees John Faulkner – https://teara.govt.nz
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