Coggeshal History, Family Crest & Coats of ArmsThe Coggeshal surname is a habitational name, taken on from the place name Coggeshall, in Essex. This place name in turn comes from an Old English personal name Cogg and the Old English word "halh," meaning "nook." Alternatively, the family could have derived their name from the English "cog," for "a small boat, and shoal, a place where the water is shallow, and where fish abound, a fishing-place." 1 Early Origins of the Coggeshal familyThe surname Coggeshal was first found in Essex at Great Coggeshall, a markettown and parish, in the union of Witham, Witham division of the hundred of Lexden. "This place is supposed by some to have been the Roman station Ad Ansam, and by others the Canonium of Antoninus, with the distance of which latter from Cæsaromagus its situation precisely corresponds: numerous vestiges of Roman antiquity have been discovered. The present town appears to have risen from the establishment of an abbey in 1142, by King Stephen and his Queen Matilda, for monks of the Cistercian order, and in honour of the Blessed Virgin. Coggeshall anciently comprised the parishes of Great and Little Coggeshall, at present consolidated." 2 In fact, the parish dates back to the Domesday Book of 1086. Conjecturally, the surname is descended from the tenant of the lands of Coggeshall, held by Theodroic Pontel from Count Eustace. 3 Ralph of Coggeshall (fl. 1207), was an early chronicler, a native of Bernewell, Cambridgeshire, and a monk of the Cistercian abbey at Coggeshall. 4 The Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 included: (Abbas) de Cogeshalle, Essex; Roger de Cogeshall. Essex; and Reginald Cokkeshale, Kent, while the Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I listed Ralph de Coggeshal, Essex, Henry III-Edward I. 5 6 Further to the north in Scotland, "William de Cogeshale witnessed an East Lothian charter by William the Lion, and also attested a charter by Malcolm, earl of Fife, c. 1214-1226. He was probably a cleric. " 7 Early History of the Coggeshal familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Coggeshal research. Another 140 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1041, 1388, 1394, 1395, 1399, 1402, 1510, 1599, 1600, 1623, 1624, 1632, 1647, 1677, 1681, 1682, 1686, 1690 and 1708 are included under the topic Early Coggeshal History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Coggeshal Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Cogshull, Coggeshull, Cockshull, Coggeshal, Coggeshall, Cogshall, Cockshal, Cockshall and many more. Early Notables of the Coggeshal familyOutstanding amongst the family at this time was
Migration of the Coggeshal familySome of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: John Coggeshall, who arrived in Massachusetts in 1632 with his wife and four children, and became the first Governor of Rhode Island;
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