Walter Cottrell Genealogy
Record modified: 2008-06-25
This is my direct ancestor 11 generations back.
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Born: (unknown)
Died: (unknown)
Marriages:
1.
Children of Walter Cottrell and (unknown) (unknown):
Notes:
One RootsWeb entry says he was born c1624.
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St. Mary’s Co MD, 1638-50: mentioned a number of times in the Archives during this period as a planter, tax payer and voter. He was doubtless one of the original emigrants and the ancestor of the later members of the family mentioned hereafter.
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This page has:
about 1645 COTTERELL, Walter Patents Liber 2 Folio 517 Immigrant source Skordas
Gust, Early Settlers of Maryland
1 Jan 1648 William COTTRELL demands land for transpoting himself near Cedar Point
Liber ABH source Burns, Annie Walker, Mary Early Settlers page 13.
26 Jan 1648 William COTTRELL - Thomas Petitte demands 100 acres of land from
William COTTRELL and William COTTRELL demands land for transporting himself and assigned it to Thomas Petite the same day - the land on the Potomac River near Cedar Point. source - Burns, Annie Walker - Maryland Early Settlers p 13.
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Charles County Circuit Court, Liber A; 12 May 1659, Page 55
110. Hennerie Grace, Plt.; John Gey, Def.; petitioner "wraught" 5 weeks work last crop with John Gey
and also gave him a waistcoat which cost 80# tobacco; petitioner being formerly arrested at suit of said
Guy could not appear because of illness; defendant denies having had any work of Gey but did have
waistcoat, Walter Cotterell swore in open that Grace did work but very little; verified by oath of William
Hinschow; plaintiff ordered to work and afsd. Waistcoat should be pay for his diet.
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The tradition has been handed down in several branches of the family that the
progenitors of the Cockrell family in America were two brothers who emigrated from
England to Maryland with the first Lord Baltimore expedition in 1634 or shortly
thereafter, that one of the brothers remained in Maryland and the other moved to
Virginia. Although no record has been found to positively prove this, such records as
have been available tend to substantiate it, and therefore until evidence is found to the
contrary it will be assumed that this tradition is true.
[Note: Cottrell and Cockrell are variants of the same name. Cockrell is actually a more widely-spread spelling than Cottrell.]
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Apparently he also had a son James who married Elizabeth Burford, and a son William.
Hinds Site: Genealogy of Ken Hinds -- page 1759
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