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Cottingham (Summerville)
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Originally from Cheshire, many members of this family were clergymen. The Reverend James Cottingham of Ballyhaise, county Cavan, was born in 1677. His youngest son and namesake the Reverend James Cottingham was rector of Cavan and headmaster of Cavan Royal School. His only son James Henry Cottingham, born 1762, was resident at Summerville/Somerville, in the parish of Ballymachugh. He married Catherine Woollery of Barbados and their third son the Reverend Henry Cottingham, rector of Ballymachugh, held a townland in each of the parishes of Urney and Annagh in the 1850s. Reverend Henry did not marry but his older brother Major Edward Cottingham of Belfield, county Dublin, had a number of sons including Colonel Edward Roden Cottingham. The representatives of the Reverend H. Cottingham owned 381 acres in county Cavan in 1876.
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