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COTTRELL Family from Late C18th Devon & Somerset Borders
With migrant families to Lincolnshire, Hertfordshire, Nottingham, Bristol, Middlesex/London

INTRODUCTION

The 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.

There are many COTTRELL families in the rural area along the Somerset & Devon border and genealogies can be complex to resolve without church records. There are many family members of the same name born at the same time to couples who live within a few kilometres of each other, so it is not always possible from later records to determine which person is which. As a result, the synopsis provided below relating to my direct ancestry is subject to change as new information comes to light. The most up-to-date COTTRELL information and genealogies are kept on my Ancestry.com tree “CreativeGraces.net”. In late 2013, based on church records, I completed a detailed follow up of all identified COTTRELL lines out of the area, so general enquiries relating to the family name in this area are welcome. Most are farmers or stonemasons by trade. Villages and hamlets of interest include Appley, Ashbrittle, Holcombe Rogus, Kittisford, Sampford Peverell, Stawley & Uffculme, as well as the nearby larger towns of Tiverton & Wellington and the city of Exeter.

- Updated December 2013 -

Current head (proven ancestry sought) is William COTTRELL (c1770-1842), Stonemason and his wife Ann JANES, JAMES or GANES (depending or record source, 1777-1844) who were married in Ashbrittle, Somerset in 1801 (my 4xGGPs). William could be the 1771 s/o Thomas & Agnes at nearby Uffculme, Devon or the Thomas of nearby Oakford who m. Ann MELHUISH on 9.11.1795 (who would have been his first wife). These may be one and the same person, although no death for a 1st wife can be verified. William & Ann, with their son John COTTRELL (Stonemason) were living at "Appley Croft", Stawley in 1841, next door to "Briars" with widowed son William (Stonemason) & 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 of entries and several in the few pages of Stawley (often as CATHELL in index). Their inter-relationships are not proven.

The following synopsis is my “proven” COTTRELL ancestry from Stawley:

• Son 1: William COTTRELL Jr (1802-47) = Mary PERRY (1802-38) in 1823 in Stawley. He was also a Stonemason in the same village. Not all their children have been traced:

  • Elizabeth COTTRELL aka Eliza COTTRELL (1823-1842 Stawley);

  • George COTTRELL (1825-80 Stawley), Mason = Elizabeth WARREN (1830-90) in 1852. Two baptism records exist. At Stawley churchyard there is a monument to son George:

    • Rosa Selena Warren COTTRELL (1853-1887). In 1871 she was a lodger at the Old Parsonage (Schoolmistress) in Hockworthy, Exeter, Devon, and a Certified Teacher living at the Old Vicarage Cottage in the same village in 1881 = Alfred SHATTOCK in 1885;

    • George William Warren COTTRELL aka William George Warren COTTRELL (1856-89). In 1881, as William W., with his widowed mother Elizabeth, he was a slate merchant in Tracebridge;

  • Ann COTTRELL (1826-26);

  • Elizabeth COTTRELL (1828-28);

  • John COTTRELL (1828-1890), a Stonemason Journeyman = Sarah DARBY (1822-87) and lived in Rockwell Green, Wellington in 1861:

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

      • William Henry COTTRELL (1884-), a Labourer in 1901 and not found thereafter;

      • Eleanor Sarah COTTRELL (1885-1965) = 1908 Bristol to Samuel Henry SALTER;

      • Albert Edward COTTRELL (1887-1960) – 1911 census data is unclear whether he a single Able Seaman in Devonport or married to an Alice of Ebbw Vale, Glamorgan and living in Bristol. Death date assumes he remained in Bristol;

      • 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 (1858-1920), In 1881 a private at the Raglan Barracks. In 1891 & 1901 lodging in Redcliffe, Bristol. A widowed Bricklayer by 1901 (spouse unknown);

    • Mary Ann COTTRELL (1861-72);

    • Frederick COTTRELL (1864-1931), Bricklayer - unmarried;

  • James COTTRELL (1830-1881), Stonemason = Mary LOVELL in 1857 Tiverton, DEV & was living in Hockworthy, DEV. Children:

    • Rhoda COTTRELL (1858-1914). Unmarried, a servant in Dartmouth then Paddington, London;

    • Walter William COTTRELL (1860-63);

    • James COTTRELL (1861-1919) = Ellen Jane SEYMOUR (1858-1939) in 1888. Children:

      • 2 children born/died in period 1888-1901 based on 1911 census;

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

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

        • Lilian Ethel COTTRELL (1913-2001) = Elliott Albert COE in 1936 Edmonton;

        • Frederick James COTTRELL (1914-99) = Gwendoline Isabel L DEWEY in 1936 Edmonton. Children in Westminster, London:

          • Alec J COTTRELL (1937);

          • George K COTTRELL (1937-1937);

          • William F COTTRELL (1937) = Corinne J COLEMAN in 1964;

          • Christopher D COTTRELL (1947) = Angela V CRAIG in 1975;

        • Winifred Patricia Ellen COTTRELL (1916) = William J TUCKER in 1936 Edmonton;

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

      • Emmaline Mary COTTRELL (1890-1971);

      • Annie Ellen COTTRELL (1895);

      • Grace Lovell COTTRELL (1896-1967) = Charles Percy BREWSTER in 1919 Bruton, Somerset;

    • Sarah Jane COTTRELL (1863) = 1891 Tiverton to Frederick Francis HILL;

    • Mary Hannah COTTRELL (1867-1958). Unmarried, but 2 illegitimate children known:

      • George Miles COTTRELL (1890-1970) = Lilian Mary HANNABUSS in 1912 Tiverton (no known children);

      • Rose COTTRELL (1893-1958) = Thomas HILL in Tiverton in 1956;

    • Frederick William COTTRELL (1869-1939) = Frances Elizabeth THOMAS in Builth Wells, Wales in 1908. Child:

      • William Henry COTTRELL (1916-1995) = Mary Evelyn BARNETT in 1947 Swindon;

    • Reuben COTTRELL (1872-1915) = Emily PRATT in 1895 Newton Abbott, DEV:

      • Vida Irene COTTRELL (1896-1964) - unmarried;

      • Victor Frederick COTTRELL (1897-1980);

      • Agnes Mary Louise COTTRELL (1907-1996);

    • Albert George COTTRELL (1874-1959) = Melinda DARCH in 1903. Child:

      • Marion COTTRELL (1904-76) - unmarried;

  • Henry COTTRELL (1832-1832);

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

  
  The Globe Inn, Appley taken by this webauthor in 2003

• Son 2: Richard COTTRELL (1804-57 Stawley), Builder, married Edith HODDER (c1803) on 27.4.1831 at Street, SOM (my 3xGGPs). Richard was a Mason & Innkeeper in 1851 at the Globe Inn, Appley near 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, totalling 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:

  • Charles COTTRELL (1832 Stawley – 1905 Nottingham), Stonemason. Charles is the family member with COTTRELL descent into the C20th and was much travelled. After being recorded in 1851 at the Globe Inn (above) he married Verina KIRK (1835-1891) 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 (1858-1896) = Emma NORTH in 1890 Nottingham. Child:

      • Muriel Hannah COTTRELL (1896-1966) = Thomas Alfred BINNS in 1919;

    • Charles Henry COTTRELL (1859-1913), Railway Clerk in 1881 Islington, London = 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, West Riding, Yorkshire, where his death occurred;

      • Winifred Mary COTTRELL aka Mary Winifred COTTRELL (1888, Baldock, Herts - 1982) unmarried;

      • William Henry COTTRELL (1890, Barnet, Herts) in EB in 1911 - a black & white artist;

      • Reginald COTTRELL (1893-1963) = Constance M PALMER in 1929 London;

      • Herbert Edward COTTRELL (1895-1945);

    • Seymour COTTRELL (1862, Grantham) = 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 the census area, with family still in MSX. In 1911 the 2 girls are boarding at Bentham House School in Yorkshire and Tom a musician with the 16^th Lancers based in Norwich (he served in the 17^th Lancers in WWI). Seymour & Esther both retired and died in Dunfermline, Scotland:

      • 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;

    • Emma Jane COTTRELL (1866, Grantham – 1920) = 1890 in Nottingham to George OATES;

    • Walter Benjamin COTTRELL (1868, Grantham – 1936 Newmarket). 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. In 1906 = Susan Ann ELLINGTON. Newmarket children:

      • Winifred COTTRELL (1906);

      • George William COTTRELL (1908-98) = Victoria May BISHOP in 1938:

        • Madge J COTTRELL (1941);

        • Brian J COTTRELL (1945);

      • Cecil COTTRELL (1915-96) = Gladys DIXON in 1952;

      • James Douglas COTTRELL (1920-96);

      • Lewis John W COTTRELL (1922-2005) = Violet Doris OLLEY in 1954:

        • Theresa E COTTRELL (1957);

    • 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-1929) = Emma Margaretta IRELAND in 1900 Woolwich, London & living in Plumstead in 1901. Children:

      • Ernest Herbert COTTRELL (1901-1901 Woolwich);

      • Alfred Seymour COTTRELL (1903 Watford - 1959) = Doreen A M GREEN in 1949 Watford;

      • Florence Margaretta COTTRELL (1905-90) = Frederick Derrick EMERTON in 1926 Watford;

      • Ernest Herbert COTTRELL (1907-87) = Margaret NICHOLSON in 1932 Watford:

        • Iris COTTRELL (1933);

        • Alfred E COTTRELL (1936-39);

        • Beryl COTTRELL (1940);

      • Edith Winifred COTTRELL (1910 Watford) = Sydney A WRIGHT in 1931;

      • Leonard COTTRELL (1912 Watford - 1999);

      • Arthur Percy COTTRELL (1914-78) = Matilda J TIBBLES in 1936 Watford. Children:

        • Terence David COTTRELL (1937-96);

        • Michael J COTTRELL (1944);

      • Rosetta M COTTRELL (1915 Watford) = Basil Stephen B TUCKER;

      • Gladys COTTRELL (1919 Watford);

  • Lavinia COTTRELL (c1834 Stawley-1922) = Henry THATCHER in 1855 Taunton. Large family in Taunton (1861), then Bedminster, Bristol (from 1871);

  • Emma COTTRELL (c1837 Appley/Stawley-1906) = Walter William LANE in 1855 at Taunton (my 2xGGPs);

  • Elizabeth COTTRELL (c1839 Stawley-1899) = Robert SNELL in 1867;

  • Alfred COTTRELL (c1842 Stawley-1876), Journeyman Painter & Plumber = 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;

  • Frederick COTTRELL (c1846 Stawley). He is last recorded in Exeter in 1861 as a Telegraph Clerk – may have worked onboard ships or joined the military (history unknown);

• Ann COTTRELL (c1812 Stawley-1846) = William CUDE of Hockworthy in 1834 Stawley. After her death he married Harriet MOGG. Two children are known from the marriage to Ann (Anne C (1835) & James (1837) both of Stawley);

• James COTTRELL (c1813 Stawley-1831);

• John COTTRELL (1818-44);

The outline above is indicative only and not necessarily fully correct or complete.
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Three monument inscriptions in Ashbrittle churchyard:

"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 was the 1843 s/o John COTTRELL & Sarah LAMPREY 1863. Census information suggests he later married Maria MILTON. Ann would be Ann CROWE who he married in 1861].

"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]
[children of James & Maria]

"In memory of Henry COTTRELL who died June 14th 1868 aged 23 years"
[assumed to be s/o John & Sarah by elimination]

Three monument inscriptions in Stawley churchyard:

"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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