Joyce Cotter

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living

James + Anna Harris. Anna was born in cir 1895. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1907, James Cotter was living in Buffalo, New York.

James + Mary M. Dee. Mary was born in cir 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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George Cotter was the Deputy Registrar of Haldimond County, Ontario. At the time of the 1901 census, he was living in Cayuga, Haldimand County, Ontario. In April 1905, he retired to Hamilton, Ontario.

George married Frances Letitia Stewart in 1858 in Cayuga, Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada. Frances was born on 14 May 1837; died in 1901; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Cayuga, Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1861

Notes:

George Cotter was a Captain in the 69th Foot and served in the Peninsular campaign. He fought at Quatre Bas and also under Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, when he was awarded a medal. On 1 December 1816 he was placed on half pay. Around 1837, he emigrated to the Toronto, Ontario, area. On 17 July 1839, he made application for the issue of patents for his purchase of military land. At that time, he owned the mills at Newmarket, Ontario, where he had lived since June of 1837. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 10th Battalion, York Militia, Canada West, receiving his commission on 10 November 1846. He held an earlier commission as Lieutenant-Colonel (24 January 1838) under the earlier organization of the militia. In the early 1850s, he moved to Dunn Township, Haldimand County, Ontario.

George married Jane Crofts on 11 Mar 1819 in Castlemagner Church, Castlemagner, County Cork, Ireland. Jane (daughter of William Crofts and Catherine Gibbings) was born in cir 1795; died after 1861. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Notes:

William Crofts lived in Mallow, Ireland.

William + Catherine Gibbings. Catherine was born in cir 1770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]