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ZEMA WARBAIN VERA COGILL (LATER HOWARTH)

I am going off at a tangent, but it may be of interest. While searching Cogills recently on the internet, I came across the person mentioned above.  She was a celebrated artist in Canada.  When I checked, she was born in S Africa, had gone to England to study art, married an englishman called peter Howarth, and emigrated to Canada in 1924.

She was born in eastern cape in 1900, the daughter of William Henry Cogill and Zema Augusta Meyer.  William Henry was the son of William Henry, eldest son of William Cogill and Elizabeth Fulcher, and Annette Gillman.  William Henry and Annette emigrated from SA to England about 1882 and lived at Surbiton.

All the Williams and Henrys get a bit confusing sometimes!

Just to elaborate on my reply, as I can't contact you by PM:
HenryCogill was a gunner in the Royal Navy.  He married Ann Nicholson at Woolwich in 1801.  They had 4 children that I know about:  Henry j
James 1804, William 1806, Ann (date unknown), Elizabeth 1814.

William's history can be traced.  He was admitted to the Royal Naval School at Greenwich in 1816.  Papers give names of parents.  They said that the father could no longer afford to maintain the child.  The petition for entry to the school stated that the Boy could remain at the school "as long as the Commissioners think fit and when of proper age he should be disposed of at their discretion as Apprentice to the Sea in the Merchant Service or placed as a sailor in his Majesty's Navy." 
William was a Purser's Steward on HMS Undaunted (a job for an educated man).  He married sarah Billing at Stoke Damerel in 1830, just before the ship left for the 'Colonies'.

The ship as at the Cape from 1831 to 1833. He made an allotment (deduction from pay) to Sarah until 1832, then stopped. I don't know what happened to Sarah. He left the ship in June 1833 and married Elizabeth Fulcher in August 1833. I imagine that becoming an hotel owner would be a natural profession for a man who had been a Purser's Steward on ship.

Regarding his father, Henry, the 1841 census says born in Scotland.  As the vast majority of Cogills seem to come from Caithness area, I think the informant at William's death got mixed between William and his father.

I hope this helps confirm William's birth and ancestry.
Jim

I was responding to Jim Heubner's post regarding relationship with David Coutts/Alexander Coutts/Isobel Leith.  They are part of my family line and as far as I know not related to the Canadian Coutts.

More information on this.
George Blair had a son George baptised in 1808, so it is quite possible that the George, a tailor, who married Marion Goodall and died in 1834 is the son, rather than the father.  I know the death in 1834 is the one who married Marion Goodall, as she remarried Alexander Gillespie and two of her Blair children lived with her in 1841.

I note that most baptisms of George Blair's children between 1800 and 1816 have witnesses Thomas Blair and Peter Lyall.The only Thomas Blair I can find in Inveresk is Thomas who married Marion Fairly in 1896.  This suggests he may be a brother of George.  If so, I believe his father may be Charles Blair, who married Katherine Simpson in 1869.  However, there is no apparent baptism of George in Charles's family and, apart from Thomas, other childrens' names (Robert and Christian) are not repeated in George's family.  All this assumes that the Blairs all lived in Inveresk, as it becomes very complex if I look wider!
Jim