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COTTRELL Family of Late C18th - Mid C19th Ashbrittle, Appley/Stawley, Kittisford & Taunton, Somerset, with later families in Devon, Lincolnshire, Hertfordshire, Nottingham, Bristol & Middlesex, London

Family name derived from low status "cottagers" whose livelihood was based on a small cottage and
the small parcel of land attaching. Although this family is mainly spelt COTTRELL, records can include the following spellings: COTTERELL, COTTERILL, CATHELL (a common census transcription error), CATTRELL & COTTRILL, etc.

Current head (ancestry sought) is William COTTRELL (c1770-1842), Mason and his wife Ann JANES, JAMES, JONES or GANES (depending or record source, 1780-1844) who were married in Ashbrittle, Somerset on 20.9.1801 (my 4xGGPs). William could be the c. 19.11.1771 s/o Thomas & Agnes at nearby Uffculme, DEV or the Thomas of nearby Oakford, DEV who m. Ann MELHUISH on 9.11.1795 (presumably his first wife). These may be one and the same person, although no death for 1st wife can be verified. William & Ann, with their son John COTTRELL (Mason) were living at "Appley Croft", Stawley in 1841, next door to "Briars" with widowed son William (Mason) & his family.

COTTRELL/COTTERELLs are still farming in the area today. On the 1841 Ashbrittle census there are 5 COTTRELL families in only 6 pages on entries and several in the few pages of Stawley (often as CATHELL in index). Their inter-relationships are not proven. Four sons and a daughter of Appley/Stawley are known.:

• William COTTRELL (1802-47) m. Mary PERRY (1802-38) on 28.6.1823 in Stawley. He was also a Mason in the same village. Not all their children have been traced:

  • Elizabeth COTTRELL aka Eliza COTTRELL (n. 1823 & c. 1828 Stawley). Nothing known after 1841. Possible deaths in Wellington RD in 1843 & 1845 or marriage in 1845;

  • George COTTRELL (c1824-80 Stawley), Mason, m. Elizabeth WARREN (1830-90) in 1852. Two baptism records exist. At Stawley churchyard there is a monument to son George:

    • Rosa Selena Warren COTTRELL (c1853 Stawley). In 1871 she was a lodger at the Old Parsonage (Schoolmistress) in Hockworthy, Exeter, DEV., and a Certified Teacher living at the Old Vicarage Cottage in the same village in 1881. Nothing known after this date;

    • George William Warren COTTRELL aka William George Warren COTTRELL (BMD 1856-89). In 1871, he was a registered pupil at a school in South Street, Wellington, Somerset. In 1881, as William W., with his widowed mother Elizabeth, he was a slate merchant in Tracebridge;

  • Ann COTTRELL (n. 1826 & c. 1829 Stawley). Not found in 1841;

  • John COTTRELL (c. 1828 Stawley). In 1851 he was visiting a laundress in Lower Greenham. It appears John, a Stone Mason Journeyman (slightly younger of Ashbrittle), is married to Sarah DARBY and living in Rockwell Green, Wellington in 1861:

    • Mark COTTRELL (1855-93), Bricklayer, m. Bessie TUTTON (1864-1904) in 1884 Bedminster. Children in Bedminster, Bristol:

      • William Henry COTTRELL (1884);

      • Eleanor Sarah COTTRELL (1885-1965), m. 1908 Bristol;

      • Albert Edward COTTRELL (1887);

      • Minnie Eliza J COTTRELL (1889). After Mark's death, appears to be adopted and is resident in 1901 with the BRADLEY family in Bristol;

    • William COTTRELL (1858), In 1881 a private at the Raglan Barracks. In 1891 & 1901 lodging in Redcliffe, Bristol. An unmarried Bricklayer;

    • Mary Ann COTTRELL (1861);

  • James COTTRELL (c1830 Stawley-1881 Tiverton, DEV), Stone Mason m. Mary LOVELL in 1857 Tiverton, DEV & was living in Hockworthy, DEV. Children:

    • Rhoda COTTRELL (1858). Nothing known after 1881 - a servant in Dartmouth;

    • Walter William COTTRELL (1860-63)

    • James COTTRELL (1861), m. Ellen Jane SEYMOUR in 1888. Children:

      • James Seymour COTTRELL (1889-1948), m. Ethel Louise POLLETT in Wells, SOM in 1909;

        • Mary Beryl Seymour COTTRELL (1910), m. Edward Maurice SMITH in 1934 Edmonton, MSX;

        • Lilian Ethel COTTRELL (1913);

        • Frederick J COTTRELL (1914), m. Gwendoline I L DEWEY in 1936 Edmonton;

        • Winifred P E COTTRELL (1916) m. William J TUCKER in 1936 Edmonton;

        • Audrey Joan COTTRELL (1920-2004), m. Lionel James FARRINGTON in 1941 Edmonton;

      • Emmaline Mary COTTRELL (1890);

    • Sarah Jane COTTRELL (1863), m. 1891 Tiverton to Frederick HILL or George MAUNDER;

    • Mary Hannah COTTRELL (1867). Unmarried by 1901;

    • Frederick William COTTRELL (1869). Unmarried by 1901;

    • Reuben COTTRELL (1872), m. Emily PRATT in 1895 Newton Abbott, DEV:

      • Vida Irene COTTRELL (1896);

      • Victor Frederick COTTRELL (1897);

    • Albert George COTTRELL (1874). Unmarried by 1901;

      • In 1891 & 1901 all listed children single but grandson George Miell COTTRELL (1891)  & grand-daughter Rose COTTRELL (1893) also resident;

  • Henry COTTRELL (c. 1832 Stawley). Not on 1841 census;

  As both parents had died in the 1840's, James & George were living with uncle Richard COTTRELL and family at the Globe Inn in Stawley in 1851 (below):

  
  The Globe Inn, Appley taken in 2003
  
  

• Richard COTTRELL (c1804-57 Stawley), Builder, married Edith HODDER (n. c1802) on 27.4.1831 at Street, SOM (my 3xGGPs). Richard was a Mason & Innkeeper in 1851 at the Globe Inn, Appley/Stawley. In 1851 he sold the Globe Inn to a man named HAWKINS. The area was 1 rod, 18 poles, with an orchard of 2 rods, 30 poles, totaling 1 sq. acre, 8 poles valued at 4 shillings and 8 pence. Richard died in 1858 and widow Edith was working as a servant in 1861. In 1871 she was living with her daughter Lavinia & family. She died in 1881. Richard & Edith had the following children surviving in 1851:

  • Charles COTTRELL (c1832 Stawley). Charles is the family member with descent into the C20th and was much travelled. After being recorded in 1851 at the Globe Inn (above) he may have been the Charles who married Q1 1851 at Wellington to an unknown spouse. However, he did marry Verina KIRK in Marylebone, London in Q3 1857. Their family were first in Lincolnshire (1861/1871/1881) and then Nottingham (after 1881) where she died in 1891 and he in 1905. He was a Station Master for the Great Northern Railway and then a Railway Agent. Their children:

    • Alfred James Richard COTTRELL (1858 Sedgebrook, Grantham). Not found after 1871;

    • Charles Henry COTTRELL (1859 Sedgebrook, Grantham), Railway Clerk in 1881 Islington, London. Married Mary Lumm BROWN in Hitchin, Herts., in 1887, with the family living in South Mimms, Middlesex in 1891 & Wellingore, Lincolnshire in 1901. In 1911, the family are in Ecclesall Bierlow (EB), West Riding, Yorkshire, where his death occurred in Q1 1913;

      • Winifred Mary COTTRELL aka Mary Winifred COTTRELL (1888, Baldock, Herts) in EB in 1911;

      • William Henry COTTRELL (1890, Barnet, Herts) in EB in 1911;

      • Reginald COTTRELL (1893, Barnet) in EB in 1911;;

      • Herbert Edward COTTRELL (1895, Barnet) in EB in 1911;

      • Muriel Hannah COTTRELL (1896, West Ham) in EB in 1911 and boarding in 1901 Woodford, Essex (for unknown reason);

    • Seymour COTTRELL (1862, Grantham), m. Esther KING at Brentford, Middlesex in 1893. As a courier, Seymour was well travelled. their children show this. In 1901, Seymour appears to be outside census area, with family still in MSX:

      • Ethel Jane COTTRELL (1894 Preston, LAN);

      • Tom Seymour COTTRELL (1896 York);

      • Nellie Cottrell (1897 Ireland)

    • Verina COTTRELL (1864, Grantham-1934). Died unmarried in Hailsham, Sussex. Not found in 1891, 1901 or on the 1911 index;

    • Emma Jane COTTRELL (1866, Grantham), probably the one who married Q2 1890 in Nottingham to George OATES;

    • Walter Benjamin COTTRELL (1868, Grantham). He was in West Bridgford, Nottingham in 1891 as a boarder (Shop man in hat trade, as COTTERILL) and in Newmarket, Suffolk in 1901 as an unmarried coachman/groom;

    • Percy COTTRELL (1870, Grantham-1891), Tobacconist's Assistant, was boarding with his sister Emma & husband George OATES in 1891 Nottingham, where he died in the same year;

    • Alice Edith COTTRELL (1873, Grantham). Nothing known after 1881. Possibly married in Norwich in 1891;

    • Ernest Herbert COTTRELL (1876, Grantham), m. Emma Margaretta IRELAND in 1900 Woolwich, London & living in Plumstead in 1901;

  • Lavinia COTTRELL (c1834 Stawley), m. Henry THATCHER in Q4 1855 Taunton. Large family in Taunton (1861), then Bedminster, Bristol (from 1871);

  • Emma COTTRELL (c1837 Appley/Stawley) married Walter William LANE 31.12.1855 at Taunton (my 2xGGPs);

  • Elizabeth COTTRELL (c1839 Stawley). Not found after 1851 census;

  • Alfred COTTRELL (c1842 Stawley), Journeyman Painter & Plumber married Charlotte WELCH, a Glover, in Taunton in early 1861 and were resident there on the 1861 census. In 1871 the couple, without any natural children (but with 9 y.o adopted Jane P COLES), were resident in Weston Super Mare (as CATTERELL). Alfred was a Painter/Paperhanger & Charlotte a Medical Nurse. They are difficult to find after this time. Jane was a servant in Islington in London in 1881, and 60 y.o widow Charlotte is in Brighton, Sussex in 1901 as a Domestic Cook in the house of James & Jane CADMAN, possibly her adopted daughter and husband (Alfred & Charlotte not found in 1881 & 1891). An Alfred COTTERELL (34) is registered as having died in Axbridge, Somerset in Mar 1876 ;

  • Frederick COTTRELL (c1846 Stawley). He is last recorded in Exeter in 1861 as a Telegraph Clerk;

• Ann COTTRELL (c. 1812 Stawley), possibly m. William CUDE of Hockworthy in 1834 Stawley. She reportedly died in 1846, after which he married Harriet MOGG. Two children are known from the marriage to Ann (Anne C (1835) & James (1837) both of Stawley);

• James COTTRELL (c. 1813 Stawley). Nothing known;

• John COTTRELL (c. 1819-74). In 1871, John (of Kittisford) with wife Sarah WEBBER (m. 1841 Wellington) appears to be a farmer of 49 acres at Hemyock, Devon, In 1861 a Lavinia COTTRELL (6) was a visitor (no relationship given):

  • Caroline COTTRELL (1846 Kittisford-1874 Taunton), m. Aaron Henry BROOM in 1868 Wellington. Couple were in Hemyock, DEV in 1871. Aaron remarried.

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Three monument inscriptions in Ashbrittle churchyard read:

"In loving memory of Anne COTTRELL who died March 26th 1863 aged 20 years,
Also James, husband of the above died July 14th 1887 aged 44"
[James n. c1843 - parents unknown; marriage unknown ~1863. He was a Builder & Farm Labourer in 1881 Ashbrittle]

"In memory of Fanny COTTRELL died January 16th 1868 aged 2 years 3 months
Fred COTTRELL died June 26th aged 7 months" [year not given]
[parents not known]

"In memory of Henry COTTRELL who died June 14th 1868 aged 23 years"
[n. c1845 - parents unknown]

Three monument inscriptions in Stawley churchyard read:

"In loving memory William George Warren COTTRELL"
[son of couple below]

"Elizabeth the beloved wife of George COTTRELL"
[Elizabeth WARREN above]

"Mary COTTRELL d. 20.6.1858 (36) & William d. 29.10.1847 (45). George d. (date unreadable)" [would appear to be part of family tree].

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