When John Cottle was born on 10 April 1706, in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Cottle Sr, was 30 and his mother, Jane Looke, was 25. He married Zerviah Hillman on 6 January 1731, in Martha's Vineyard, West Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died in February 1804, in British Colonial America, at the age of 97.
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English (South western England):
metonymic occupational name for an armorer, probably first derived from Old French cotel ‘coat of mail’; later examples may also derive from Old French cotel, coutel ‘short knife or dagger’ (from Late Latin cultellus), used to denote a cutler.
perhaps also a habitational name from written forms of any of the three places in Devon named Cotleigh or Cotley.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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