| ![Show Contents]() Coggere History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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Etymology of CoggereWhat does the name Coggere mean? The ancient name of Coggere finds its origins with the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It comes from a name for a sailor or master of a type of small boat called a cog in Old English. A cogger was a person who sailed such boats. 1 2 The Latin forms are derivatives of MedLat coga, cogo ‘boat’ (c. 1200, 13th MLWL), for Middle English cogge, OFr cogue ‘small ship, cock-boat’, used by Chaucer of the ships in which Jason and Hercules sailed. A cogger (c. 1450) may have been a builder of cogs but was more probably a sailor or master of the cog." 3 Early Origins of the Coggere familyThe surname Coggere was first found in Lincolnshire, where the earliest entry was in the Latin form of the name, Arnaldus Coggorius who was listed in the Pipe Rolls of Lincolnshire for 1195. A few years later, Osbert (le) Coggere was found in the Pipe Rolls for Dorset in 1195. Roger le Cogere and John le Cogger were bailiffs of Dunwich in 1218 and 1219 respectively. 3 Early History of the Coggere familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Coggere research. Another 62 words (4 lines of text) covering the years 1191, 1197, 1218, 1219, 1621 and 1628 are included under the topic Early Coggere History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Coggere Spelling VariationsSound 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 Coggere family name include Cogger, Coggere, Cogere, Coger, Coggorius, Cowger and others. Early Notables of the Coggere familyMore information is included under the topic Early Coggere Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Coggere familyFor political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, 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 Coggere surname or a spelling variation of the name include : John Cogger and his wife Elizabeth, who emigrated from Ireland to Woburn, Massachusetts in 1693; Peter Cogger, who sailed to Philadelphia in 1738; and Thomas Cogger, who immigrated to Detroit in 1854..
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