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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Cosier Huguenots
« on: Saturday 30 December 23 10:28 GMT (UK)  »
My name is Trevor Ellis from Sydney australia and my late mother was Ottilie Smithers (nee Cosier). Our family history says that the Cosiers were Huguenot refugees and I found a reference to Jacob Cosier,

Jacob Cosier, born in Burgundy, aged 26, servant with Andrew Mullenbeck, gun-
maker. 1565?
Ref. /ProtestantExilesFromFranceChieflyintheReignofLouisXIVortheHuguenotRefugeesandThe_10708958.pdf

I have not been able to find his descendants but the Cosiers go back many generations in Wendover and my latest find is John Cosier, married Nov 1695 at Tring Hertfordshire. I also have found  the following:
RG9/840 Folio 68 Page 26
Flamstead, Hertfordshire
John Cosier 24 Grocer Flamstead
Sarah 31 Straw Hat Maker Flamstead
Mary Anne 8 Scholar Flamstead
Maria 6 Scholar Flamstead
William 2 Flamstead
Fredrick 1 Flamstead
Joseph Wilder brother in law mar 36 Iron Founderer High Wickham Bucks
Maria Wilder sister mar 26 Straw Hat Maker Flamstead
John Joseph Wilder nephew 2mo Flamstead

So, any help in connecting through to Jacob Cosier would be very much appreciaated.

Kind regards

Trevor Ellis

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: Ancestry DNA ISle of MAn
« on: Friday 29 December 23 07:15 GMT (UK)  »
OK, in 1565 an ancestor the Cosier family, my maternal side, left France to escape the Huguenot persecution. I am having trouble linking him to the rest of the Cosiers who were mainly storekeeps but is it possible he arrived via the Isle of Man?

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Ancestry DNA ISle of MAn
« on: Friday 29 December 23 06:59 GMT (UK)  »
My name is Trevor Ellis from Sydney Australia and my Ancestry DNA says that 65% of my DNA is from Northern England including the Channel Islands and isle of Man. Can anyone please help me as I want to find my ancestors who lived there. My gg Grandfather John Ellis was born in Colne in 1802 but ho father was listed, only his mother, Ann Ellis. He was a convict and sent to Norfolk Island for 7 years.

regards

Trevor Ellis
sydney Australia

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Ancestry DNA ISle of MAn
« on: Friday 29 December 23 06:53 GMT (UK)  »
A couple of years ago I had my  DNA tested by Ancestry. It was pretty accurate when I compared it to the family tree I had built. However, there is one question that I have. 65% of my DNA is England and  the Channel Islands including Northwestern Europe. at this stage I have not been able to find any link to the Isle of Man. My GG Grandfather, John Ellis, was born in Colne Manchester in 1802. His mother was Ann Ellis but no father was listed. I believe that her father was John Ellis also, but no mother listed. I am unsure if he is the link to the Isle of Man or not but would love to find which set of relatives came from there.

There is a rumour that the Cosier part of my family came to England around 1565 from France as Heugenot refugees. The Cosiers were in England for many generations but I am finding it very hard to track him through.

If anyone can provide any help to these problems, I would be very grateful. John  Ellis was sentenced to 7 years for Larceny and sent to New South Wales as a convict to Norfolk ISland. There were some thoughts he was born in Wales but in the 1851 census, i  England, he was in YASS NSW with his wife and 2 children. He was swept away in a flood at Yass in 1852, along with 89 other folk.

I live in Beverley Park, Sydney NSW. Australia

Thanks in advance

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Cosier Huguenots
« on: Thursday 10 February 22 07:21 GMT (UK)  »
Hi guys,
my name is Trevor Ellis and my late Grandmother was Adelaide Smithers (nee Cosier). She is directly linked to the Cosiers in Cherry Tree Hill and our family oral tradition was that the Cosiers fled France to escape religious persecution, went to England and opened a business/s and one of them, Henry Charles Cosier (a real rogue), even did time in Australia, came to Australia after basically being chased out of N ew Zealand. He came from Hackney, Middlesex. My research shows the Cosiers were basically from Wendover, Buckinghamshire. I have traced them back to William Cosier (no birth or death date), but he married Mary Gudgeon in 1754 at Wendover and her birth date was 1729. At this stage this is as far as I have reached HOWEVERR today I found a Jacob Cosier in a list of Hugenote refugees who was born in Burgundy and was 26 and assistant to a gunmaker called Mullenbeck!! The linking occupation seems to be a Grocer.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Bray family
« on: Monday 03 May 21 06:50 BST (UK)  »
Hi JOhn,
my name is Trevor Ellis and my late Grandmother was Jessie May Ellis (nee Bray). She married my Grandfather, John Alexander Ellis, both from Forbes and her sister married Joseph Ellis, Johns brother. I am writing a history of the Ellis Clan and the Brays are an important part. Could we please chat as I am very keen to get any information about the Brays in Forbes. Jessie May was committed to a mental home in 1919 and died there in 1938. warm regards Trevor

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Family History Beginners Board / Jessie May Ellis (nee Bray of Forbes)
« on: Monday 25 May 20 08:20 BST (UK)  »
Greetings,

I have been researching the various sides of my family during the last three years since I retired and I recently found out that Jessie May Ellis  cemetery in Sutherland. I have never know much about her but intend to visit her grave now that lock down is over. I know a reasonable amount about my side of the family (Ellis), but would love to find out any information about the Brays. Jessie May's father was William Bray and it the Bray side of the family that I am trying to trace. So, if anyone has any information about the Brays or Ellis's from Forbes, I would be very grateful. I knew Robert Ellis my late cousin very well and my two sons, now grown up, visited him and his late wife. Regards  Trevor Ellis

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