Cockullson History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Cockullson is a name whose history is connected to the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from when the Cockullson family once lived in the region of Colston, a parish in the county of Nottingham.

Early Origins of the Cockullson family

The surname Cockullson was first found in Northumberland where they held a family seat from very ancient times.

Important Dates for the Cockullson family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Cockullson research. Another 113 words (8 lines of text) covering the years 1090, 1200, 1379, 1680, 1760, 1668, 1636, 1721 and 1722 are included under the topic Early Cockullson History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Cockullson Spelling Variations

Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Cockullson family name include Coulson, Colson, Colsune, Colsoun, Colsoune, Culson, Culsoune, Cullson, Collson, Coullson, Collsoun and many more.

Early Notables of the Cockullson family (pre 1700)

Notables of this surname at this time include: John Colson (1680-1760), British mathematician, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. He "was son of Francis Colson of Lichfield, vicar-choral of the cathedral and nephew of John Strype, the ecclesiastical historian." ^[1] Lancelot Colson ( fl. 1668), was an astrologer who practised at the sign of the Royal Oak on...
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Migration of the Cockullson family

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Cockullson surname or a spelling variation of the name include: John Coulson who settled in Hampstead, Connecticut, in the year 1666; John Coulson settled in Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia in 1774; and Adam Colson settled in Reading sometime before 1668.