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Here is a link to the excellelent site run by Dawn Scotting.

Link to The COTTRELLs of Neston (Cheshire UK)

Richard Cottrell also has a good site

Link to Cottrellweb for alternate spellings of the name

Here is one explanation of the history of the name do you have any more?

Cotter : English Occupational name from Middle English cotter a status term during the feudal times which described the tenant farmer or serf who planted only five to ten acres and lived in a cottage on the farm and payed for his place by service rather than rent. There are several variations for the name of this modest farmer, including Cottier, Cotman, Kotter, Kother, Kotter, Kother, Kather, Cotterel, Cotterell, Cottrell, Cotterill, Cothererill, Cotterel, Cottereau , and Cottarel .

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Beth (no surname) is looking for looking for Charles Cottrell (b) 1814 (m) Mary Banks (b) 1812 & daughter Emma Cottrell (b) 1838 @ Manchester England. Can you help her?

An anonymous Cotterill sent this snippet:

In rural Cheshire dialect an A is dropped to an O e.g. apples becomes opples. I have found at least one example of where a Catterall became a Cotterall and one Cottrell who became a Catteral on the 1841 census.

My G G grandfather and G G G grandfather were definitely Cotterell.

and....

The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester.

George Ormerod, Esq., LL.D. F. R.S. & F.S.A. 2nd edition 1882

Page 708
The estates of one line (of the Hortons by some accounts,) passed by an heir to a younger branch of the Alderseys, and (certainly part at least, it may be supposed, is found the subject of a fine levied 36 Hen. VIII. by Thomas, and John Aldersey, senior, of Horton, and Ellen his wife, in favour of David Dodde of Egge, consisting of two messuages, and 83 acres, in Horton ;) those of the other line became vested in John Catherall, in right of his wife, Alice de Horton, about the time of Edward 1. This family were a younger branch of the Catherals of Catheral in Lancashirc, and continued settled at Horton for fifteen generations, until the estate was sold by Dutton Catheral, towards the close of the seventeenth century, to Mr. Dod, a linen-draper of London, (and most probably of the Edge family,) who was in possession in I701. The annexed pedigree brings down the descent of the family from their settlement in Horton to this alienation.

Page 390
"21 Henry VIII. John Horton of Coole most probably son of Roger, not Sir Roger Horton held lands in Coole as before, Val. VIII.; and lands in Worleston, Lostock, Northwich and Twembrook."

Page 390
The Coterells of Coole (an unidentified branch of the Cateralls of Horton, held an estate here. By Inq. -Ric. II. Ran Coterell held thirty acres of land in Coole, of the earl, in chief; after his decease Richard his son entered. John son and heir of Richard, aged 10 years and unmarried. (Chesh. Inqs.) In 1394-5, Roger de Horton, John de Maynwaring, John de Holford, and William de Alkemundelowe, entered into a recog. in 6 marks for the custody of two parts of the lands which were of Randle Coterell of Couele, together with the marriage of John son and heir of Richard Coterell, and the reversion of the 3d part of the said lands held in dower by the wife of the said Richard. (Recog. Ro. 18 & 19 Ric. II. m. 3.). This John occurs as having his writ de etate, on his suing out his livery from the hands of Roger de Horton, 6-7 Hen. IV. Dec. 10 (Rec. Ro. m. 1.). He occurs as lately tenant of a tenement here, out of which a rent of 11s. p. a. issued, in the Inq. of Johic de Fouleshurst of Edlaston. Rec. Ro. 15 & i6 I-len. VI. 111. 3d.

Nantwich Parish Records
28th March 1728 Ralph Horton esq buried Audlem, probably the last descendent of a family who had resided at and owned lands in Coole-Pilate near Nantwich from the time of King Henry IV. (Lysons Cheshire page 473).

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CHESHIRE LIFE, March 1984, by COLIN ROGERS.

IS YOUR NAME COTTERELL? OR COTTRELL Cottrill or any of the other spellings of this old Cheshire surname? They are all variations of the old French word cotier, cottager, so it is not surprising that it originated in several parts of the country. The earliest example I can find in Cheshire is Brice Coterel who witnessed a charter in Bredbury about eight hundred years ago, and there was a Richard Cotrel in Bramhall in 1260. The surname was probably not inherited for another century or so; nevertheless, almost all the Cheshire Cotterells more than three centuries ago lived in the north-east of the county, especially around Dunham Massey, Prestbury and Stockport where Peter Cotterell was mayor as the Civil War broke out. Several other early examples may be of general interest. In 1539, Thomas Coterell, aged 55, gave evidence in the case of Leigh vs Jodrell in the notorious Court of Star Chamber. Ellen Cottrell married Ottiwell Higgenbottom on 22 October, 1587, at Prestbury, and married the same man a week later at St. Mary's, Stockport. Such double marriages were not uncommon over the next 150 years, and may sometimes be explained if the parties came from two parishes concerned. Thomas 'Cottrell' alias Haule (Hall) was born at Woodford in 1583; in those days, an alias normally indicated not criminality but illegitimacy, the alias linking the surnames of the two parents. A small trickle of Cotterells found their way towards Chester over the centuries. Ranulph, probably of Poole, paid the chamberlain of Chester 6d. for the privilege of keeping his pigs in the local forest a 1302; Roger, a sheep shearer, was made a freeman of the city in 1533; and Peter was one of the neighbours who went through the property of the deceased postmaster of Chester, Robert Francis, in 1633 in order to value it for the probate court. Today, though the name is found all over the county, and there is a concentration of Cottrells in the Wirral, the majority of families carrying this name still live in the north-east, where the name originated.

A DICTIONARY OF SURNAMES, Mark Antony Lower 1988 Wordworth Editions Limited. ISBN 1-85326-916-6
(First published as A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom 1860)

COTTERELL. COTTRELL. In feudal times, "the coterellus held in absolute villenage and had his person and goods disposed at the pleasure of the lord." Kennet's Paroch. Antiq. He was probably so called, like the Cotmanni, or Cottarii of Domesd. from residing in a cottage. Another origin may be from the cotarelli, costeraux, coteraux, mercenary soldiers and freebooters whose trade was war and pillage, (Conf. Brabazon) and who were so called from the coterel, a large knife they carried. Cotgrave defines cotereaux as "a certaine crue of peasantly outlawes who in old time did much mischiefe unto the nobilitie and clergie.'

So why does this website exist?

My personal history meant that I have lost touch with my family on my father’s side - here is a brief personal summary:

I have a limited knowledge of my family background and am interested in finding out more. My father was Brian Sydney Cotterell and he died when I was in my early teens. He had a half-Brother, Graham and a full brother and sister, Cyril and Barbara. Barbara married (moved to Sutton Coldfield) and is now known as Davies. I have lost touch with them all many years ago. It would be nice to make contact with direct and indirect family members. I have two brothers and sisters. Graham and Barbara, who are twins, plus Andrew and Caroline. They all live in and around Gosport and Portsmouth in Hampshire, England.

I was born on 2 July 1956, I married Carole on 6 September 1980. Our daughter Katy was born on 12 May 1986 and our son Elliot on 29 March 1988. We lived in Luxembourg from the end of 1988 until late 1998 when Carole, Katy and Elliot returned to the UK. In early 1999, I moved back too. The later date was due to work commitments. We now live in Brighton on the south coast of England. I have recently started a portfolio lifestyle under the tagline “Building Better Outcomes”

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