When William Wallace Cottrell was born on 29 November 1813, in Buffalo Cove, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States, his father, William Wallace Cottrell, was 34 and his mother, Lucy M Day, was 33. He married Susannah Shearer on 6 March 1835, in Caldwell, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Lenoir, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States in 1860 and Lower Creek Township, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years. He died on 2 March 1885, in Caldwell, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Lenoir, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States.
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English (southern and western England): status name for a cottager, from Old French coterel, a diminutive of cotier ‘cottager’ (see Cotter ). In southwestern England, there may have been some confusion with Cottle , the place Frampton Cotterell, earlier recorded as Franton' Ade Cotelli, having been named after the Cotel family, who held the manor from the 12th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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