Charles Cosens
ID # 8800, (1772-1846)
| Birth | Charles Cosens was born in 1772. |
| Marriage | He married Ann Goodchild on 14 July 1806 at Wield, Hampshire, England. The marriage record, such as it is, is available via Ancestry. It is located under UK Parish Records, England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1988. It is very brief and simply states that Charles Cosens married Ann Goodchild on July 14, 1806, at Wield in Hampshire. It shows no parentage or witnesses. It is text only. For the present, no image is shown. |
| Death | He died on 27 December 1846. |
| Burial | He was buried at Turner's United Cemetery, Tuckersmith Twp., Huron Co.. |
| Note | Ancestry has a database for U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. This tells of the arrival in Canada of Charles 'Cosins', his wife Ann, and 11 children, in 1832. This is sourced to the Petworth Emigration Scheme, but also sources Rosemary Ambrose's excellent article, The Petworth Emigrants of 1832, in Families, volume 28, nbr. 1 (February, 1989), pp. 7-12. This in turn leads us to Charles Barclay's work of 1833, Letters from the Dorking Emigrants who went to Upper Canada in Spring of 1832. Along with several transcribed letters, it also includes the names of persons sent out from Dorking to Upper Canada. This included Charles and Ann Cosins, ages 59 and 43 respectively, and their 11 children. Also listed separately are Charles and Ann Cosins, ages 19 and 20. This Charles is the son of the older Charles and Ann. Also shown are William and Jane Tilt, both aged 27, and they have with them three children: John, 7; William 5; and Jane 3 months. (As an aside, also included in this list is the family of James and Eliza Jeater. With them are two children, the older being Israel Jeater, age 3, who appears elsewhere in this tree.) There were two possible ships that these families sailed upon, the Eveline and the Lord Melville. Perhaps the extended Cosen family members were all on the same vessel and there is some thought that it was the Lord Melville. We do not have an actual passenger list for the vessels. The vessels carried them as far as Quebec City. Passenger lists for vessels sailing between Quebec and Montreal have been consulted, but the families have not been found. The Barclay book does transcribe a letter from Cornelius Cosins to Dorking and this is dated October 7, 1832. It locates Cornelius in Waterloo Township. More of the family were probably there as well. Charles Cosens and Ann Goodchild were married on July 14, 1806 (see marriage notes for source information.) Their marriage was in Wield in Hampshire, England. Several baptism records for the Cosens' children are recorded at Wield and these are noted under their names. The gravestone for Charles and Ann Cosens, as well as their daughter Jane Cosens Tilt, has been found photographed on Find-a-Grave and CanGenWeb. It is only minimally readable. A much better resource is the transcription of the gravestones in Turner's United Cemetery in Tuckersmith Township of Huron County. This transcription was done in 1983 and it would appear that the stone was more readable at the time. The stone's transcription appears on page 9 and the stone number is 96. It reads: COSENS (white marble) In/Memory of/Charles Cosens who departed from/Dorking, England in 1832/ & Died Dec. 27, 1846/in his 75th Year. Also of Ann, his wife, Who died Apr. 3, 1853/in her 67th Year Also of their Daughter/Jane Tilt Who died Oct. 17, 1832/in her 28th Year. s.m. J. Scott, Galt The Turner's transcription does not typically mention the name of stone makers, but the transcriber of the Cosens' stone thought it of sufficient note to include the stonemaker's name, J. Scott of Galt (John Scott of Galt.) Not all transcriptions were created equal. Some transcribe the names of stone makers and some don't. This includes stones in Galt cemeteries. There are stone makers' names shown in the transcription of the old St. Andrew's Cemetery stones as they appear in the St. Andrew's Pergola. No Scott stone has been found predating the mid or late 1840s. The above stone was probably installed after the passing of Ann Goodchild Cosens in 1853. Tilt and Cosen family members were evidently resident in the Blair and Doon area of Waterloo Township during this time period, not at all far from Galt. We have no way of knowing who ordered the stone. It may have been a mutual effort. |
Children of Charles Cosens and Ann Goodchild |
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| Last Edited | 16 Oct 2021 |