Cottam Family History
Cottam Name Meaning
English (chiefly Lancashire): variant of Cotton.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cottam
Name Distribution of Cottam Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cottam families
 14 - 26  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cottam families
|
554 - 1,106 185 - 553 |
1 - 184 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cottam families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cottam census records
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Cottam Family Origin
Cottam Immigration Information
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You can find out when most of the Cottam families immigrated
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Cottam
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Cottam Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Cottam census records
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Cottam Civil War Service Records
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