Cottage Family History

Cottage Name Meaning

English (Cambridgeshire): unexplained; apparently from Norman French cotage, perhaps denoting the status of a cotter (see Cotter 2).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Name Distribution of Cottage Families

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England & Wales

Scotland

Number of Cottage families

20 - 37

7 - 19

1 - 6

from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data

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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data

Cottage census records

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Cottage Family Origin

England;Great Britain (1)

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Cottage Emigration Information (US)

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Cottage Family Occupations

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Military Service by Cottage

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