'Cotesworth1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Cotesworth of Gateshead Park, Cotesworth of The Hermitage

                               
Michael Cotesworth of Newcastle (a 1670, 1682)
m. Elizabeth (a 1682, cousin/heir of Edward Heslop)
1. John Cotesworth of The Hermitage, Sheriff of Northumberland (bur 23.01.1725/6)
  m1. (10.02.1694) Margaret Wilkinson (bpt 05.08.1672, dau of Hugh Wilkinson of Souith Shields)
  A. Edward Heslop Cotesworth of The Hermitage (dsp bur 06.12.1741)
  m. (19.11.1729) Ann Newton of Hexham Spital (d 22.03.1738/9)
  B. Michael Cotesworth in the East Indies, later of The Hermitage (d 28.11.1754)
  m. Jane (a 1754)
  C. John Cotesworth (bur 09.04.1698)
  m2. Ann Jefferson (a 1726, dau of Matthew Jefferson of Newcastle & Bingfield, widow of William Shafto of Carrycoats)
  D. Jane Cotesworth (bur 06.10.1751)
  m. (28.06.1745) Henry Bloom (bur 19.05.1752)
  E. Elizabeth Cotesworth
  m1. (08.08.1734) Christopher Legge
m2. (01.1744) James Smithson of Monkwearmouth
2. William Cotesworth of London, later of Gateshead Park & Bellister (d by 1727)
  m1. (09.05.1699) Hannah Ramsay (dau of William Ramsay (alderman of Newcastle))
  m2. Hannah Watson (m2. Rev. _ Mawer of Middleton Tyas)
  A. Robert Cotesworth of Gateshead Park (d by 1729)
  B. Ann or Hannah Cotesworth
  m. Henry Ellison of Hebburn)
  C. Elizabeth Cotesworth
  m. Henry Thomas Carr
  D. daughter ("sub-governess in Royal nursery")
3. Charles Cotesworth 'of Eggleburn, co. Durham' (d before 1722, younger son)
  A.+ issue including Charles, John
4. Michael Cotesworth (d by 08.1729)
  m. Catherine of Newcastle (a 1729)
5. Elizabeth Cotesworth
  m. (03.12.1690) John Emmerson
6.+ other issue - Caleb, Edward of London (apothecary), child (bpt 04.06.1659), child (bur 11.02.1667/8), Sarah (bur 06.11.1674)

Main source(s): 'A History of Northumberland' (vol 4, John Crawford Hodgson, 1897, 'Cotesworth of The Hermitage', p145)
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