COGSWELL
I happened upon the family and descendants of Samuel Cogswell and Elizabeth Tilley through inquiries made by regular mail.
Samuel was a weaver by trade. He was born in 1760 and died in 1849 at Trowbridge, England.
Samuel and Elizabeth had six children, Sarah, Jacob, James, William, John and Benjamin.
According to the Cogswell Family Historian, William left home at the age of fifteen years to try and make his way to New Zealand, and was never heard from again. For a fifteen year old boy to do this he would have to work his passage.
Our William arrived in Newfoundland at the age of eighteen years, which would be appropriate timing in those days for a sailing ship to be three years at sea. Perhaps he tired of the ocean and decided try his land legs again. When landing in Newfoundland, William worked with a couple of the Morgan boys, who had family on Cape Breton Island. It was while on a visit to Cape Breton with these boys that he met and married their sister, Bridget
THUS THE PROLIFERATION OF THE COGSWELLS BEGAN ON CAPE BRETON ISLAND.
b.06/08/1896 d.12/1965
m. Mary Rosina Proctor
*Elenor b.08/05/1921 d.1962 married Charles Kublek
*Marjorie b.10/25/1922 m.Howard Sleep
*Melinda b.08/17/1925 d.06/20/1970 m.Alan Perry
*Mary Theresa b.05/16/1927 m.11/18/1946 to Charles A. McNamara
*John b.unknown died in infancy
* Geraldine b.1941 d.1941 age 3 months
*Pearl b.1942 d.1948
*Alexander b.1930 d.05/13/1992
m.Marie McNamara
*James b.05/24/1934 d.05/15/1994
m. Catherine MacDonald
*Lester b.Sept/? m.Anne MacNeil
*Dolores b.(unknown) m. John Matthews
*Elizabeth b.(unknown) d.(unknown)
m.Gordon Roberts (Eliabeth disappeared in 1969)
*Carol Ellen b.01/27/1944 m. Guiseppi Galati
*Nelson b.09/16/1946
*Philip b.1951 d.1995 (1) m. Mary Agnes Doucette (2) m. Adrienne Bohaychuk
(2)m. Philomena (Forgeron) McNamara
(b.1857 d.1936)
*Charlotte b.1889 m.10/22/1910 to John MacDonald
*John Albert b.01/12/1893 m. Evangeline McNamara
*Charles Vincent b.02/07/1894 d. Sydney, N.S. m. Veronica Connor of Glace Bay, N.S.
*Nelson Alexander b.06/08/1896 d.12/1965 m. Rosina Proctor
*Caroline Louise b.04/20/1898 d.06/04/1965 at Pictou, N.S. m. Alexander Murphy Hemming
*Ann Melinda b.08/26/1900 d.12/19/1983 m.Gordon McNamara
*Francis Domenic b.12/19/1904 d. Evanston, N.S. m. Sarah (Sadie) McNamara
David's wife Philomena also had three children from her first marriage to William McNamara. David raised these children as his own.
*William Patrick b.06/06/1882
*Joseph William b.11/17/1883
*Mary Catherine Emily b.09/10/1886
b.1810 England
m.Bridget Morgan 1832
(b.1816)
*Sarah b.1832 m.11/18/1870 to James Childs
*David William b.1837 at River Inhabitants (1) m. Caroline Upton (2) m. Philomena(McNamara) Forgeron
*MaryEllen b.1845 (1)m.James Gordon 10/20/1871 (2) m.John Ross 09/15/1873
*John b.1849 m.Mary Upton (John drowned off Port Hood, Nova Scotia09/26/1884
*Elizabeth b.1850 m. Patrick Cloake 08/05/1879
*James b.03/29/2854 m. Nancy Upton
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David William Cogswell
was married twice. First to Caroline Upton and then to Philomena (Forgeron) McNamara. Between them they raised eighteen children,his, hers and theirs.
Issue from David's first marriage to Caroline Upton are as follows:
*John James b.10/19/1866
*William b.10/18/1869 d.Maine, U.S.A.
*Louise Ann b.12/21/1871 d.04/03/1951
m.02/01/1898 to Edward J. McNamara
*Joseph b.10/19/1873 d.10/22/1957
m.01/07/1903 to Mary Catherine MacCormick
*Bridget Ellen b.12/18/1875 d.11/20/1905 married to Sydney Vincent
*Patrick b.06/25/1878 d.09/1973
m.09/05/1906 to Margaret Ann MacCormick
*James Hugh b.07/23/1880 died in Maine, U.S.A.
*Edward Martin b.10/10/1883 d.03/23/1949 m.01/13/1913 to Nellie Proctor
