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Hello again Cousins
Just a quick note mainly directed at our Australian members,
I have recently found a photograph from Charlton, Victoria, Australia of
A.A. Coath's Boot Palace in 1898.
Is anyone able to shed light on the identity and story of A.A. Coath?
I have the honor to be
With the highest respect
Your faithful & obedient servant
Steve Coath
researching COATH One-Name Study
Heraldry Society Bookstall Manager
Listowner COATH-L
www.coath.info
Hello everyone, I hope this finds you all in good health.
Since my last message there have been some big changes. Some of you who we
thought belonged to one branch of the family actually belong to another.
The redeployment started with my search through the records of the Excise
department while searching for the records of Walter Coath, the father of
the blackbirder John Williams Coath.
During this search I discovered not only his entry papers but also those of
several other Coath's.
Although these do not give the name of the father they do give the year of
birth as well as the place. In addition they give the name, location and
trade of two character witnesses.
I then moved on to the minute books of the Excise department, all 750 of
them.
These give a daily account of the whole department including notes on every
time an Excise man was promoted, joined or moved to a new location.
I had amongst my records one Robert Coath, Excise man, his wife Elizabeth
Coath, nee' Coath and there children.
I had already traced there descendants right up to the present day but was
unable to discover who Robert's father was and whether he had married his
cousin, a widow or it was a mistake in the records.
The proof came when we found a Quaker record which stated that Robert was
born (Quaker records show date of birth, not baptism) on 27th Nov 1797, the
son of Robert Coath of Polperro, Excise man.
The very same Robert who was the son of Francis the sheep stealer and who
was a witness for the prosecution in a case against one of Polperro's
infamous smuggling families.
It seems that after their fathers execution three of the brothers, William,
Thomas and Robert had left Polperro for Liskeard.
Robert's son had later married Thomas' daughter, his first cousin.
So I had now traced my Excise man right back to John Coathe 1400,s, however
this still left Walter Coath.
I knew that Robert son of Francis had married Ann Easterbrook but Walter was
the son of a Robert Coath and Margaret Williams.
I looked through Walter's Excise entry papers and his character Witnesses
were John Williams (his grandfather) and Philip Northy the husband of Ann
Coath who according to her baptism records was the daughter of Robert Coath,
Excise man of Liskeard and Margaret Williams.
Armed with this a short trace revealed that Ann Coath nee' Easterbrook had
died (probably in childbirth) and Robert had then married Margaret Williams.
The Robert Coath and Margaret Williams on the Edward Coath family tree were
a different couple who never had children.
Apologies if anyone is having problems keeping up,
So, this now means that Walter Coath is actually part of the John Coathe
family tree and therefore so are all his descendants obviously.
So Walter, John Williams the Blackbirder, David Decimus the Civil Engineer
and Teak Harvester, Robert David the WW1 fighter ace and many others have
now been properly located in their correct lines.
This does of course mean that I have lost some of you as relatives (or at
least until I can identify Edward Coath 1730's parents) but on the other
hand it means that some of you have now increased the size of your families.
And for our Australian cousins, you now have John Williams Coath in your
branch.
I have the honor to be
With the highest respect
Your faithful & obedient servant
Steve Coath
researching COATH One-Name Study
Heraldry Society Bookstall Manager
Listowner COATH-L
www.coath.info
I have the honor to be
With the highest respect
Your faithful & obedient servant
Steve Coath
researching COATH One-Name Study
Heraldry Society Bookstall Manager
Listowner COATH-L
www.coath.info