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![Show Contents]() Colquite History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Colquite is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the family once having lived in Newcastle. The name means "at the coal pits," and is found in the area around the great coal mines in Newcastle and the surrounding area in Shropshire. 1 "I have observed this name about Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It was probably assumed in the first instance by a person resident near a coal-pit." 2 Early Origins of the Colquite familyThe surname Colquite was first found in the historic county of Durham, now part of Tyne and Wear in the Newcastle upon Tyne area. Early records of the family are rare. The first record we found of the name was a marriage record in London of Nicholas Collpotts and Katherine Tatham, (1576-1577.) Braund's Newcastle lists John Colepitts as a hoastman in 1720 (epitaph, St. Nicholas, Newcastle-on-Tyne); and George Colpits, of Killingworth in 1763. 1 Black has no record of the family in Scotland, so one can presume that the family remained in this area. Today Colpitts Grange is a village in Northumberland and Colpitt Lake is a lake near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Early History of the Colquite familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Colquite research. Another 24 words (2 lines of text) covering the year 1576 is included under the topic Early Colquite History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Colquite 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 Colquite family name include Colpitts, Coldpitts, Colquit, Colquite, Colquitt, Colquits, Collpotts and many more. Early Notables of the Colquite familyMore information is included under the topic Early Colquite Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Colquite familyFor 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 Colquite surname or a spelling variation of the name include: Robert Colpits who arrived in Nova Scotia in 1775 and Ann Colpitts in Australia in 1791.
- Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
- Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
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