Cottle Family History
- Cottle Name Meaning
- metonymic occupational name for a maker of chain-mail, from an Anglo-Norman French diminutive of Old French cot(t)e ‘coat of mail’ (see Cott). metonymic occupational name for a cutler, from Old French co(u)tel, co(u)teau ‘knife’ (Late Latin cultellus, a diminutive of culter ‘plowshare’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 384,502 Historical Documents with Cottle on Ancestry
- 91,927 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 56,180 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,192 Military Records
- 3,594 Immigration Records
- 226,609 Member Trees
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Number of Cottle families
 219 - 436  74 - 218 |
 1 - 73  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cottle families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cottle census records
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- England (38)
- Ireland (28)
- Great Britain (5)
- Canada (2)
- Cape Breton,United States of America (2)
- Wales (2)
from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Cottle census records
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