The D'Arcy Archive
1716–1787

Edward Cotton

Of Ashton Underhill, Gloucester, England.

FamilyAsserted by the family tree. No record has been found for them, and none has been shown against them either. How this archive grades a claim →

Edward Cotton1716–1787direct line · generation 10
marriedElizabethb. 1720tree · direct line
written in a record this archive has read from the family tree, untested

None of the 4 relationships shown here is written in a record this archive has read. Every one comes from the family tree. That is not a claim that they are wrong — it is a statement about what has been checked, and on this site the difference is the point. How claims are labelled →

The record

Born15 SEP 1716Ashton Underhill, Gloucester, England
Died31 DEC 1787Ashton under Hill, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

direct line · generation 10 counting back from the present day

Family

Parents

Lydia Lyon · Edward Cotton

Married

Elizabeth · 1741 at Ashton, Underhill, Gloucestershire, England

Children

Catherine Cotton (1746–1778)

Where this comes from

No relationship on this page has been checked against a record — the parents, marriages and children drawn above are what the family tree says. Nothing else has been found for them either way. How claims are labelled →

Every entry naming Edward Cotton in the register →

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Others of the same name

This family reuses forenames relentlessly. These are different people, kept apart on purpose rather than merged into one. Why →

Everywhere Edward appears in this archive

Every page of this site that writes aboutEdward Cotton in prose, gathered automatically — 3 in total. This counts pages, not records: the lists and registers are skipped on purpose, so a person can be well documented and appear here once or not at all. How claims are labelled →

Errands

…therine Cotton come from?” while the answer — Berkeley, born 11 October 1746, daughter of Edward Cotton and Elizabeth — sits in the data files. Context → 39 Open De Lancey's Brigade muster and commission rolls, 1 June 1778 — for a CO…

How Far Back

…er 1679 — reached through Hannah Saniger, Miriam Wakefield's mother, on the Bristol side. Edward Cotton , born at Ashton-under-Hill, Gloucestershire, 6 January 1687. Lydia Lyon , born at Market Drayton, Shropshire, 3 March 1683. Will…

The work list

…tled 22 September, and two men in this archive's own data settled it without a gazetteer. Edward Cotton, born 15 September 1716, died 31 December 1787 , is recorded born at «Ashton Underhill, Gloucester» and dead at «Ashton under Hil…

Sources attached in the tree

  • Guthrie Web Site — Edward Cotton
  • Our Huge Family Tree — Edward Cotton

These are the citations the family tree carries. Where this archive has checked one against the original, it says so on the relevant page. Method →

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