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Lily Grace Cockaday (nee Cawdron)

Re: Cockaday family, Norwich

Amanda Cockaday (View posts)
Posted: 16 Apr 2004 4:55PM GMT
Classification: Query
Did you receive the message I sent directly to you last night?

If not let me know and how I can contact you directly by e-mail

Re: Cockaday family, Norwich

Posted: 27 Jun 2004 12:55PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 9 Oct 2004 5:58PM GMT
I am directly descended from John Alfred Cockaday, the eldest son of John and Emily who lived in Museum Court Norwich. I know a little about the family and am keen to know more. I have a photo in my possession which I believe to be of John Alfred Cockaday.

Re: Cockaday family, Norwich

Posted: 28 Jun 2004 2:23AM GMT
Classification: Biography
I understand that you are in contact with my nephew, Christian Cody. The family last name was changed legally to Cody after my Dad's death in 1969. You can read about him as COCKADAY, Sergeant Arthur John (R90414) because he received the Distinguished Flying Medal for his actions in WWII. It is at www.airforce.ca/medals/dfm/btm. Two of his brothers Sgt Albert Cockaday RCAF-POW fflying Wellington XHZ-273 coded QB-G & Sgt Cecil Cockaday RCAF flying Wellington III X-3814 coded PT-P did in action in 1943. He also had two other brothers George and Jack and a sister named Lillian. That makes 5 boys and 1 girl. I hardly know anything about the family as Dad and Mum (Catherine Anastatia nee Sevigny) moved to New Brunswick to live until 1954 having had 6 children (my siblings). That year Dad had to go into Sunnybrooke Veterans Hospital in Toronto and so that is how we came back to Ontario and the youngest child was born in Toronto that year.
As I am not sure what you would like to know and how much I have to tell, I certainly don't mind

Re: Cockaday family, Norwich

Michele Pearson (View posts)
Posted: 28 Jun 2004 8:14AM GMT
Classification: Query
Emily Engall (Ingall) married John Cockaday (Cockeday) at Thorpe Episcopi Church on 4 Oct 1840. See my previous note re register entry. John was a man servant and Emily a weaver, both living in Thorpe Hamlet. On certificate his father is John Cockeday, a gardener, and her father is Thomas Engall, also a gardener. The couple had 12 or 13 children, I have census info on some of them. John was the oldest and 2nd was Emily Ann (my side of the family, on whom I have lots of information).
I believe Emily Ann Engall was born on 14 May 1821 and christened 20 May 1821 at Saint Martin At Palace. Father Thomas Engall or Ingle and mother Mary - found them living at Worlds End Lane, St Martin at Palace in 1851 census. (Not to be confused with Thomas Barnabus Engall, coal merchant and licensee of Fleckered Bull.) Possible brother of Emily = Thomas Ingall, born 21 Jan 1815 at St Martin at Palace to 'Tho Ingall and My'.
I believe John Cockaday (who married Emily) was probably the one born 22 Jan 1821 and christened 28 Jan 1821 at Saint James Pockthorpe. Father John Cockaday and mother Susanna Johnson. They married 3 Jan 1804 at Saint Michael Coslany. This John could have been born 8 Mar 1785, christened 24 April 1785 at Saint James Pockthorpe, parents Gideon Cockaday and Mary Base. I have devised a very rough tree of Gideon and Mary's children and grandchildren but nothing followed up and verified yet.
Confused yet? I am!
My great grandmother always said that the John Cockaday who married Emily Engall was the son of a John Cockaday who eloped with a younger daughter of Costessey Hall. My research so far hasn't shown any sign of this, so I'm disappointed. If anyone has any more information about John and Emily and their relatives/ancestors I would be fascinated to hear of it.

Re: Cockaday family, Norwich

Posted: 28 Jun 2004 10:12PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 9 Oct 2004 5:58PM GMT
Thankyou for providing that very interesting account of the early history of the Cockaday family. I myself have only recently begun to research my family history: there`s probably very little that I know about the Cockadays that you don`t already know, but feel free to pick my brains anyway! I can confirm that John & Emily Cockaday had at least 13 children. Emily was widowed fairly early on (in the 1860s); she eventually remarried in 1883 (to William Berry Blackburn), and died in 1893. John and Emily`s first son, John Alfred (1841-1916), was my great-great-grandfather. He married Edith Brown, from Aldsworth (Gloucestershire), in 1871. They spent most of their married life in the City of London, where he worked as a grocer`s porter and a valet. They had at least 3 children. The third child, Violet Elizabeth Emma (b.1878), spent the whole of her life in the London area. She became the mother of William Thompson Watts (b.1897), who was the father of my mother, Joan Marjorie (b.1921).
That is my connection to the Cockaday family!
I shall be more than happy to exchange further information about the family, either on the message board or directly by email.

Re: Cockaday family, Norwich

glyn cockaday (View posts)
Posted: 8 Jun 2005 8:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
i am also related through gideon and mary base i can go back to 1620. interested then please reply

Re: Cockaday family, Norwich

Posted: 27 Sep 2005 9:08PM GMT
Classification: Query
the cockaday family were flemish walloons who settaled in norwich , the first one on record is noe coquidee. if you would like any more information please get in touch

Re: Cockaday family, Norwich

Posted: 29 May 2006 6:16PM GMT
Classification: Query
my ancestor is Noe Coquidee can we chat my number is 01603 893005

Re: Cockaday family, Norwich

Posted: 28 Sep 2007 3:31PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: cockadays
i have a george cockaday who was married to ann barnard
his fathers name was john dont no his mothers yet
also george had 3boys and 7 girls
george 1878 walter1882.frederick1894.
eliza 1881, minnie1890,beatrice1896, edith ?,gemmima?, and gertrude jessica 1892. (my nanny) has anyoneheard of any of these as ive got as far as john and now im stuck
sue
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