Coote

There seem to be several families with this surname in  the Castle Camps/Shudy Camps area. These are my deductions of family groups based on the parish registers. Please contact me if you have an interest in these families.

Descendants of:

1. John & Ann Coote - 1560s to early 1700s

2. William & Martha Coote 1760s to 1830s

3. Henry & Mary Coote 1750s - 

A. John COOTE had the following children baptised in Castle Camps:

• Dionise bp 17 Aug 1567

• Thomas bp 26 May 1571

• Ann bp 28 Feb 1573

• John bp 19 Aug 1577

• Robert and William (twins) bp 8 May 1581 (William may have married Francys and had John bp 1 Sep 1605)

• Steven bp Jun 1789

In 1612 (22 Apr) John Coote senyor was buried and Ann, wife of John was buried two years earlier 19 Jun 1610.

Dionise (or Sionise) had a daughter baptised Elizabeth Feb 28 1597.

Thomas appears to have married Martha JAGGARD 2 Mar 1603. Their children were all baptised in Castle Camps.

• Thomas bu 30 Nov 1604

• Thomas bp 12 June 1605

• Robert bp 9 Nov 1606

• Aylce bp 1 May 1608 bu 5 Jul 1608

• Francis bp 15 Oct 1609 (possibly the same as buried 27 Feb 1688)

• Elizabeth bp 13 Sep 1612

• Marye bp 2 Jul 1615 bu 13 Jul 1615

• Catherine bp 20 May 1616 bu 18 Jul 1616

• Alice bp 21 May 1618 bu 19 Apr 1639

• William bp 24 Dec 1620

• John bu 26 Jun 1625

Thomas was buried 21 Jun 1647 (aged about 76). Widow Coote, who may be his wife Martha, was buried 17 Feb 1650.

John may have married Joan HOGATE 10 June 1604 in Castle Camps. They had two children:(father is listed as John jnr on both baptism entries)

• John bp 21 Apr 1605 
• Willyam bp 10 July 1608

William (son of Thomas & Martha, bp 24 Dec 1620) was the right age to have married Ann/Hannah BROWNE 16 Apr 1652 in Shudy Camps, and had the following children baptised, all in Castle Camps:

• Francis bp 18 Feb 1652 bu 9 Sep 1659
• William bp 8 Jan 1655
• Samewell bp 14 July 1660 bu 23 Sep 1660
• Francis bp 3 May 1663

Anne/Hannah was buried 8 May 1687 followed by William on 6 Jul 1691.

Their son William could have married Margaret DOVEE (DOVES) 8 Nov 1682. Margaret was the daughter of William & Alice DOVES bp 9 Sep 1659 in Shudy Camps.

• Margaret bp 27 Oct 1683 bu Nov 16 1683 Shudy Camps
• William bp 12 Apr 1685 Shudy Camps
• John bp 9 Oct 1687 Shudy Camps
• Robert bp 6 Apr 1690 bu 13 Jul 1690
• Richard bn Nov 23 bp 5 Dec 1697

There is a burial for William Coote on 12 May 1726, and for Margaret Coote, a poor widow, 12 Jan 1739, both in Shudy Camps.

Francis, youngest son of William & Anne, was bp 3 May 1663. He and Ann had the following children bp in Castle Camps:

• Francis bp 24 May 1686 
• Elizabeth bp 11 Dec 1687
• William bp 30 Mar 1690
• Anne bp 18 Sep 1692 (Poss m. Robert HOCKLEY 8 Dec 1714 CC)
• Robert bp 6 Jan 1695

Ann Coote, a poor woman, was buried 13 Nov 1728 Castle Camps, and Francis Coote, a poor man, buried 10 days later on 23 November 1728.

John Coote m. Sarah BONDS/BONES/BOWER  4 Oct 1713. Their children were baptised in Shudy Camps:

• Sarah bp 24 Oct 1714
• Margaret bp 1 Jan 1715
• Anne bp 12 Oct 1718
• John bp 19 May 1723 bu 21 May 1723
• John bp 26 Jul 1724
• Elizabeth bp 11 Feb 1727 bu 30 Dec 1749

Sarah was buried 12 June 1748 in Shudy Camps.

B. William Coote and Ann RAWLINGSON had a base born son William, bp 22 May 1757 and bu 8 Jan 175 in Castle Camps. This may be the same William who later married Martha and had the following children baptised in Castle Camps.

• Martha bp 9 Jun 1758 (m? 1 Jan 1788 Robert HAYDEN of Helions Bumpstead)
• William bp 4 May 1760
• Elizabeth bp 17 Oct 1762
• John bp 10 Feb 1765
• Betsey bp 24 May 1767
• Marye bp 19 Feb 1769 (poss bu 16 Jan 1774)
• James bp 26 Aug 1770
• Rebecca bp 19 May 1772

William Coote the son, possibly married Ann DEBNEY in 1790. He was a labourer and lived at Camps Endway. There were 11 known children.

• Betsy bp 21 Aug 1791 (m. 11 Dec 1817 Samuel PILGRIM of Chesterford)
• Patty bp 26 Feb 1797
• Sarah bp 4 Aug 1799 bu 15 Nov 1803
• Mary Ann bp 25 May 1800 m. 29 Oct 1830 John BARRETT
• John bp 22 May 1803
• William bp 11 May 1806 
• Susanna bp 17 Aug 1806 (poss Anne Coote, infant who was buried 3 Aug 1808)
• Mary Jane bp 29 Jan 1809 (she had two illegitimate children; William 13 June 1831 and James 29 Mar 1833)
• Rebecca bp 4 Feb 1810
• Charles bn 31 Oct 1812
• Peter bn 20 May 1815

C. Henry Coote married Mary FREEMAN 9 April 1751 in Shudy Camps. He was a blacksmith and was buried 1 June 1782 in Castle Camps, several years after his wife Mary, who was buried 16 January 1774, also in Castle Camps.

• Elizabeth bp 8 Sep 1751 Shudy Camps
• William bp 2 Sep 1753 CC bu 1 May 1816 (Camps Green, blacksmith aged 64)
• Henry bp 14 Dec 1755 bu 10 Apr 1809
• Ann bp 25 Dec 1759 (m. either Francis ROOKS 17 Feb 1782 or James LEONARD 1 Nov 1781)
• Amy bp 4 July 1762
• Susanna bp 18 Jan 1767 (mbanns 5 Oct 1788 Samuel Smith). They later had a duaghter Elizabeth bp 13 Nov 1791)
• Mary bp 3 nov 1771

Henry Coote bp 1755 married Judith CHAPMAN 4 Mar 1778 in Castle Camps.(Poss bp 17 Jan 1744 Balsham, the daughter of Sarah CHAPMAN)

• Ann bp 12 Apr 1778 (poss bu 1 Oct 1797)
• Joseph bp 6 May 1781
• Robert bp 1 Sep 1782
• Amey bp 25 July 1784
• Sarah bp 14 May 1786 bu 21 May 1786

Jude died in childbirth and was buried 24 May 1786. Henry remarried on 10 April 1796 Rebecca BROWN (bp 10 Apr 1774, the daughter of Thomas and Eliza) and had 6 more children:

• Mary bp 21 Jan 1798
• Susann bp 18 May 1800
• Henry bp 28 Mar 1802
• William bp 5 Aug 1804 (poss bu 20 Aug 1822 labourer aged 18 of Camps Green)
• Charles bp 27 Jul 1806
• Elizabeth bp 29 May 1808 m. 12 Jan 1829 Stephen BARKER

Henry was buried 10 April 1809 and Rebecca on  5 June 1855 in Castle Camps.

Joseph Coote married Susanna BARKER 24 Jan 1811 in Shudy Camps. (She was the daughter of John & Mary BARKER bp 28 Nov 1798 Shudy Camps). The following are likely to be their children:

• Sarah bp 25 July 1813 Little Wilbraham
• Henry bp 24 June 1815 Little Wilbraham
• Philip bp 12 Oct 1817 Little Wilbraham

Susanna died and was buried in Castle Camps 16 Oct 1833.

Joseph later remarried widow Susanna Free on 21 September 1835, was married bliss was too much and he died in November and was buried on 6th of that month.