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![Show Contents]() Cospatrick History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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 England
Early Origins of the Cospatrick familyThe surname Cospatrick was first found in Northumberland in the year 1061 when Earl Gospatrick accompanied Tostig on a pilgrimage to Rome. He was of Saxon and Pictish blood. He was "son of Maldred by Algyth or Ealdgyth, daughter of the Northumbrian Earl Uhtred, by his third wife, Elgiva or Ælfgifu, daughter of Ethelred the Unready, was probably the young noble called 'Gaius patricius' in the 'Life of Eadward the Confessor' " 1 Hutton-Rudby, a township, in the parish of Rudby-in-Cleveland, union of Stokesley in the North Riding of Yorkshire was an ancient family seat. "This place, in Domesday Book written Hotun, was the property of Gospatrick, Earl of Northumberland, but on the rebellion of that noble was bestowed by the Conqueror upon the Earl of Morton." 2 Early History of the Cospatrick familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Cospatrick research. Another 169 words (12 lines of text) covering the years 1067, 1125, 1295, 1455 and 1487 are included under the topic Early Cospatrick History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Cospatrick Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Gospatrick, Cospatrick and others. Early Notables of the Cospatrick familyMore information is included under the topic Early Cospatrick Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Cospatrick familySome of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: settlers, who arrived along the eastern seaboard, from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and to the islands.
| Contemporary Notables of the name Cospatrick (post 1700) | + |
- Sir William Cospatrick Dunbar (1844-1931), 9th Baronet of Mockrum, Scottish peer
- Cospatrick Alexander Home (1799-1881), 11th Earl of Home, Scottish peer, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1828-1830)
- Smith, George (ed), Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. Print
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
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