Genealogy of the Bryan and Martin Families
Ronald Walter Cotter
1920 - 1991 (71 years)1. Ronald Walter Cotter was born on 2 Apr 1920 (son of Walter James Cotter and Vereker Rind Sparks); died on 13 Nov 1991. Ronald married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
2. Walter James Cotter was born on 31 Oct 1891 in Notting Hill, Australia (son of George Sackville Cotter and Charlotte Eliza Harrison); died on 15 Nov 1940 in Camberwell, Victorida, Australia. Walter married Vereker Rind Sparks on 16 Jan 1916. Vereker was born on 4 Feb 1897; died on 15 Nov 1940. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Vereker Rind Sparks was born on 4 Feb 1897; died on 15 Nov 1940. Children:
- Edna May Cotter was born on 7 Jan 1916; died on 19 Jul 1978.
- Living
- 1. Ronald Walter Cotter was born on 2 Apr 1920; died on 13 Nov 1991.
Generation: 3
4. George Sackville Cotter was born on 20 Nov 1865 in Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia; was christened on 10 Mar 1868 (son of John Quarry Cotter and Catherine Wenz); died on 13 Oct 1921 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia. George married Charlotte Eliza Harrison on 10 Jul 1889. Charlotte was born in 1867 in Boroondara District (Hawthorn) Melbourne, Victoria; died on 17 Jul 1931 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. Charlotte Eliza Harrison was born in 1867 in Boroondara District (Hawthorn) Melbourne, Victoria; died on 17 Jul 1931 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia. Children:
- Ethel Louisa Cotter was born on 10 Apr 1890 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia; died on 12 Jul 1953 in 108 Atherton Road, Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia.
- 2. Walter James Cotter was born on 31 Oct 1891 in Notting Hill, Australia; died on 15 Nov 1940 in Camberwell, Victorida, Australia.
- Florrie Cotter was born in 1895 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia; died in 1895 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia.
- Mary Cotter was born in 1897; died in 1897 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia.
- Cecil George Cotter was born in 1900 in Notting Hill, Australia; died on 18 Apr 1940 in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- George Sackville Cotter was born on 5 Jan 1903 in Notting Hill, Australia; died on 26 May 1973 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia.
- John Waverley Cotter was born on 26 Jan 1905 in Glen Waverley, Australia; died on 22 Jun 1973 in Beaumaris, Australia.
Generation: 4
8. John Quarry Cotter was born on 30 May 1832 in Castlemagner, County Cork, Ireland (son of Rev. Joseph Rogerson Cotter and Mary Susannah Purcell); died on 29 Aug 1903 in Rockforest, Waverley Road, Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 1 Sep 1903 in Oakleigh Cemetery, Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: Farmer, minister
- Religion: Wesleyan
Notes:
John Quarry Cotter was probably born in the rectory of the church at Castlemagner, County Cork . Nothing is known of his early life in Ireland but, judging from his family background and the academic achievements of his brothers, he probably attended a good school . Family tradition , which of course must be treated cautiously, indicates that J.Q. Cotter's health failed while he was studying law, and he came to Australia to recuperate. It was intended that he return to County Cork when his health was restored, but it is said he liked life in the colony so well that he refused to do so - much to the irritation of his father, who had sent him money for his return fare (which he may have used to buy his property in Waverley Road). Hence his father disinherited him. He is said to have emigrated to England and lived there a short time before embarking for Australia. This may have been to circumvent the then current system of limited quotas of Irish immigrants to Australia by travelling to England to board a migrant ship, so that the records showed them as English migrants. J. Q. Cotter, then aged 16, was on the immigrant ship "Chaseley" when it sailed from "the Downs" on 27 December 1848. He was in the company (and probably in the charge) of his sister Jane Emily Percival Butler and her husband, Joseph Rogerson Cotter Butler, who was a cousin of Jane and John. Both Cotter and Butler are described as farmers on the passenger list. (John and Jane were apparently also related to the Butlers through their father's first wife, who was Anne Charlotte, daughter of Capt G.B. Butler, who was probably J.R.C. Butler's father's sister). The ship reached the Moreton Bay (Brisbane) settlement on 1 May 1849 .
John married Catherine Wenz on 20 Mar 1857 in St. James (Church of England), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Catherine (daughter of Johann Wenz and Julia Anne Webster) was born on 29 Jul 1833 in Hattenheim, Germany; died on 11 Sep 1901 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 13 Sep 1901 in Oakleigh Cemetery, Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. Catherine Wenz was born on 29 Jul 1833 in Hattenheim, Germany (daughter of Johann Wenz and Julia Anne Webster); died on 11 Sep 1901 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 13 Sep 1901 in Oakleigh Cemetery, Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia. Other Events and Attributes:
- Religion: Weslyan
Notes:
On 23 April 1838 Catherine Wenz , then aged 4 years, arrived in Sydney with her father Johann (John) aged 44, her mother Julia Anne (nee Webster) also aged 44, and her two older sisters Margaret aged 15 and Anna Maria aged 8 . They were one of six families brought out to Australia from the wine-growing town of Hattenheim on the Rhine by Edward, James, and William MacArthur, to look after their vineyards at Camden under a five year contract . According to some reports, the MacArthurs treated their employees very badly and the Wenz family was probably glad to end their employment on 22 Feb 1845. They then moved to Lochinvar in the Hunter Valley north of Sydney, where John was later described as an innkeeper. John was naturalised in 1849 and died at Lochinvar in 1853; his wife died there two years later.
Children:
- Mary Susannah Cotter was born on 26 Dec 1857 in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia; died on 11 Feb 1885 in Scoresby, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 11 Feb 1885 in Oakleigh Cemetery, Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia.
- Anna Maria Cotter was born on 20 Sep 1859 in Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia; died on 16 Mar 1946 in Footscray, Victoria, Australia.
- Catherine Cotter was born on 25 Jan 1862 in Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia; died after 1903.
- John Joseph Cotter was born on 5 Apr 1864 in Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia; died in 1869; was buried on 24 Feb 1869 in Oakleigh Cemetery, Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia.
- 4. George Sackville Cotter was born on 20 Nov 1865 in Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia; was christened on 10 Mar 1868; died on 13 Oct 1921 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia.
- Unnamed Cotter was born in 1867 in Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia; died in 1867 in Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 8 Oct 1867 in Oakleigh Cemetery, Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia.
- Louisa Percival Cotter was born on 11 Oct 1868 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia; died on 24 Oct 1929 in Blackburn, Whitehorse, Victoria, Australia.
- John Quarry Cotter was born on 2 Mar 1871 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia; died on 19 Nov 1942.
- Isabel Cotter was born on 7 Nov 1873 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia.
- Ellen Purcell Cotter was born on 2 Oct 1875 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia; died on 30 Jul 1934.
Generation: 5
16. Rev. Joseph Rogerson Cotter was born on 2 Sep 1790 in Cork, Ireland (son of Rev. George Sackville Cotter and Margaret Rogers); died on 4 Feb 1868 in Macroom, County Cork, Ireland; was buried in Station Road Carrigtwohill, County Cork, Ireland. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: Clergyman
Notes:
Joseph Rogerson Cotter, B.A., served as Rector of Donoughmore, Senior Prebendary of Cloyne, and Rural Dean. He is said to have been very musical, and invented a large bass instrument which he named the Basso-Hibernicon.
Joseph married Mary Susannah Purcell on 5 Aug 1819. Mary (daughter of George Purcell and unknown) died on 15 Apr 1851. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
17. Mary Susannah Purcell (daughter of George Purcell and unknown); died on 15 Apr 1851. Children:
- Joseph Rogerson Cotter was born on 9 Jun 1822.
- James Laurence Cotter was born on 14 Aug 1824.
- Isabella Cotter was born in cir 1825.
- Catherine Louisa Cotter was born in cir 1825.
- Jane Emily Perceval Cotter was born in cir 1825.
- Sarah Phillips Cotter was born in cir 1825.
- Georgina Purcell Cotter was born in 1835; died on 15 Apr 1865.
- Mary Grace Jessie Cotter was born in cir 1825.
- Charles Purcell Cotter was born on 17 Feb 1826.
- Mary Purcell Cotter died before 1865.
- Richard Henry Cotter was born on 5 Feb 1831.
- Margaret Anne Cotter was born on 10 Nov 1831.
- 8. John Quarry Cotter was born on 30 May 1832 in Castlemagner, County Cork, Ireland; died on 29 Aug 1903 in Rockforest, Waverley Road, Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 1 Sep 1903 in Oakleigh Cemetery, Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia.
- Arundel Hill Cotter was born on 15 Apr 1837.
- Duncan Donald Darroch Cotter was born on 12 Sep 1838; was christened on 2 Oct 1838 in Ballyhay, Cork, Ireland.
- Samuel Kyle Cotter was born on 10 Nov 1841.
18. Johann Wenz was born in cir 1810. Johann + Julia Anne Webster. Julia was born in cir 1810. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
19. Julia Anne Webster was born in cir 1810. Children:
- 9. Catherine Wenz was born on 29 Jul 1833 in Hattenheim, Germany; died on 11 Sep 1901 in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 13 Sep 1901 in Oakleigh Cemetery, Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia.
Generation: 6
32. Rev. George Sackville Cotter was born in 1755 in Belfast, Ulster, Ireland (son of Sir James Cotter, 1st Baronet of Rockforest and Arabella Rogerson); died on 3 Apr 1831 in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland; was buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Carrigtwohill, Cork, Ireland. Other Events and Attributes:
- Education: St. Peter's College, Cambridge, England
- Education: Westminster School, London, England
Notes:
From: The Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee; Vol. IV. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.
"Cotter, George Sackville (1755-1831), poet and translator, was the fourth son of Sir James Cotter. He was educated at Westminster School, of which he was captain in 1770, and in 1771 he was elected to St. Peter's College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1775 and M.A. in 1779. Having taken holy orders he became vicar of Kilmacdonough, and rector of Kilcreddan-Garrivoe and Ightermorragh, diocese of Cloyne. In 1788 he published two volumes of 'Poems,' dedicated to Lady Shannon, and consisting of a poem in two books, entitled 'Prospects,' and a collection of odes and other fugitive pieces. In 1826 he published a translation of Terence for the use of the schools, in the preface to which he states that when at Westminster School he had been an actor in three of Terence's comedies. In the following year he printed seven of the plays of Plautus, 'translated literally and grammatically, and cleared of objectionable passages.' The later years of his life were spent at Youghal, Cork, and he died in 1831. By his wife, a daughter of Bayly Rogers, physician and banker of Cork, he left, with other issue, four sons."
George Sackville Cotter was named after Lord George Sackville, a friend of his father's, and was known as "a great musician." His translations of the comedies of Plautus was "Plauti Comoediae septem selectae; Anglice redditae, expurgatae." The comedies are Aulularia, Epidicus, Menaechmi, Mercator, Pseudolus, Trinummus, and Rudens. The book was published by J. F. Dove, London, in 1827. The poems dedicated to Lady Shannon were published by William Flynn, Cork, in 1788. The full title is "Poems, consisting of odes, songs, pastorals, satyrs, &c, and a descriptive poem in four books, called Prospects." His translations of the comedies of Terence was "Four Comedies of Terence, translated, and the stage management and mode of acting them set down, as they were acted at Westminster School; and also the other two comedies of Terence, the Heautotimorumenos and the Hecyra..." It was published by Dodges and M'Arthur, Dublin, in 1824. George Cotter also wrote "An Essay on the Best Mode of Extension of Agriculture in Ireland, by the breaking up and cultivating lay or grasslands." It was printed by A. Edwards, Cork, in 1802. It was originally published in "Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, 1801." Grorge Cotter is listed in "A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors" by A. Austin Allibone, published by J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, in 1858, and in "The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary" by David J. O'Donoghue, published by the author, London, in 1892-3.George married Margaret Rogers on 4 Nov 1775 in St. Finbarr's, Cork, Ireland. Margaret (daughter of Bayly Rogers and Martha Pigott) died on 11 Feb 1832 in (probably) Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
33. Margaret Rogers (daughter of Bayly Rogers and Martha Pigott); died on 11 Feb 1832 in (probably) Dublin, Ireland. Children:
- Elizabeth Cotter was born in cir 1775; died on 16 Dec 1834.
- Arabella Sackville Cotter was born in 1782 in Castlemartyr, County Cork, Ireland; died on 11 Jun 1845 in Tabernacle Row, Shoreditch, London, England.
- Rev. James Laurence Cotter was born in 1783; died on 24 Sep 1850 in Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland.
- George Sackville Cotter was born on 1 Jul 1783 in County Cork, Ireland; died on 10 Apr 1869 in Port Maitland, Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Christ Church Cemetery, Port Maitland, Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada.
- Dr. Rogers Cotter was born in cir 1786 in County West Meathe, Ireland; died in 1847 in Ontario, Canada.
- Margaret Cotter was born in cir 1787.
- Louisa Cotter was born in cir 1789; died before 1865.
- 16. Rev. Joseph Rogerson Cotter was born on 2 Sep 1790 in Cork, Ireland; died on 4 Feb 1868 in Macroom, County Cork, Ireland; was buried in Station Road Carrigtwohill, County Cork, Ireland.
- Sophia Cotter was born in cir 1791.
- Anne Laurence Cotter was born in cir 1793; died on 12 Dec 1857.
- Isabella Cotter was born in 1795 in County Cork, Ireland; died on 26 Nov 1875 in Dunn Township, Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada.
34. George Purcell died in cir 1810. George + unknown. unknown died in cir 1810. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
35. unknown died in cir 1810. Children:
- 17. Mary Susannah Purcell died on 15 Apr 1851.