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Coward - IOW, Hampshire, Wilts,Som, Dorset

Chris Coward (View posts)
Posted: 23 Feb 2000 6:00PM GMT
Interested to here from anyone researching
Coward family of Isle of Wight, Hampshire, Somerset area

coward family

dorothyjohn (View posts)
Posted: 1 Mar 2000 5:06PM GMT
chris is your family line from Mere in Wiltshire,my grandfather WAS Christopher born in 1838.

Coward Family of Somerset

Doyle King (View posts)
Posted: 5 Mar 2000 7:29AM GMT
The only Coward line I have is a Hester Coward who married Richard Frampton in Ilchester, Somerset, Eng., in 1746. I would like to correspond with anyone with Cowards from Somerset.

Coward Family of Somerset

Graham F. Coward (View posts)
Posted: 24 Mar 2000 6:58PM GMT
Hi Doyle,
Can't see any connection but there is probably one there somewhere.
See my web site at:

http://sites.archivenet.gov.au/coward/

COWARD FAMILY Wiltshire.

Graham F. Coward (View posts)
Posted: 24 Mar 2000 7:02PM GMT
My g.g.g. grandfather Thomas Coward lived in the MERE area in the late 18th century.

Have a look at my web site for more information.

COWARD FAMILY Wiltshire.

Graham F. Coward (View posts)
Posted: 24 Mar 2000 10:09PM GMT

Coward family

Alison (View posts)
Posted: 16 May 2000 12:39PM GMT
I am tracing my family who also come from Mere. I have traced back to my GGG Grandfather James Coward (b.1798) married Margaret Baverstock also of Mere (m.16.07.1823) at the congregational church. We have found a record of Baptism giving a Christopher Coward baptised on 13.05.1838, son of a Robert and Elizabeth. Is this your family? We are not sure if this connects with ours.

Coward family Mere,Wilts and Dorset

Alison (View posts)
Posted: 16 May 2000 12:41PM GMT
I am tracing my family who also come from Mere. I have traced back to my GGG Grandfather James Coward (b.1798) married Margaret Baverstock also of Mere (m.16.07.1823) at the congregational church. We have found a record of Baptism giving a Christopher Coward baptised on 13.05.1838, son of a Robert and Elizabeth. Is this your family? We are not sure if this connects with ours.

Re: COWARD FAMILY Wiltshire.

Leonard Van Valey (View posts)
Posted: 6 Nov 2001 10:51AM GMT
Classification: Query
My g.grand father was Thomas Coward from Paris, Texas. His father was from Birmingham, Alabama. His father was in South Carolina in the 1800's. In fact, there is a town named, Coward, South Carolina after a Confederate Colonel. Rumor has it that the name Coward is either English, Irish, or Scotch-Irish. I'm trying to find the source of the name. One definition I read said that the name Coward came from a Celtic name meaning Cow Herder. Do you know the source of the name? Where is the primary location of the Cowards in Great Britian?

Re: COWARD FAMILY Wiltshire.

Graham F. Coward (View posts)
Posted: 6 Nov 2001 11:11PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: COWARD, CRAGO, PIKE, KENNY
This is my understanding of the origin of the name. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

The name COWARD is derived from "cow herder". There are two concentrations of the name in England. One is around the Somerset, Wiltshire area in the south-west of the country. The other is around Yorkshire in the north. It is possible that each concentration independently grew from one couple who adopted the name when surnames became compulsory in England about 800 years ago. If this is so, then all COWARDs from the north are related and all COWARDs from the south are related. There are also COWARDs in Norway but they are descended from a person who emigrated from England several hundred years ago. There are now COWARDs in practically every country that was colonised by the English including Australia, Canada, South Africa and USA. I have been told that there were COWARDs on the Mayflower. There are possibly COWARDs who can not claim English ancestry but they would be a minority.

See my web site at :-
www.alphalink.com.au/~coward/
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