Ancestral Trails 2016 » JOHN COGGER (1713-1801)

Persoonlijke gegevens JOHN COGGER 

• Hij is geboren op 16 september 1713 in Ightham, Malling, Kent.
• Hij is gedoopt op 27 november 1716 in Norman Street, Sundridge, Sevenoaks, Kent.
• Woonachtig:
• in het jaar 1798: Sevenoaks, Kent.Bronnen 2, 3
• in het jaar 1798: Sundrish, Kent, England.Bron 2
• in het jaar 1798: Sevenoaks, Kent.Bron 2
• (Relationship) in 5 x great grandparent.
• Hij is overleden op 22 april 1801 in Sundridge, Sevenoaks, Kent, hij was toen 87 jaar oud.Bron 5
• Hij is begraven op 28 april 1801 in St Mary, Sundridge, Sevenoaks, Kent.
• Boedelverdeling op 24 april 1801 naar London PCC.
• Testament op 26 juli 1800.
• Een kind van FRANCIS COGGER en RACHEL BALDWIN

Gezin van JOHN COGGER

Hij is getrouwd met ANN LAMBERT.

Toestemming voor het huwelijk is 12 april 1742 verkregen.

Kind(eren):

1. Isaac COGGER  1761-1762
2. Sarah COGGER  1755-1756
3. Joseph COGGER  1763-1763
4. Thomas COGGER  1752-1774
5. Rachel COGGER  1754-1754
6. Richard COGGER  1760-1760
7. Edward COGGER  1749-1795
8. Francis COGGER  1744-1783
9. William COGGER  1758-> 1801
10. Jane COGGER  1757-1818 
11. ELIZABETH COGGER  1746-> 1800 
12. John COGGER  1746-1790
13. Ann COGGER  1743-1781 

Notities over JOHN COGGER

1717 mentioned in the will of his grand uncle, Robert Baldwin "....I give and bequeath unto John Cogger son of my neice Rachell deceased the sum of twenty pounds of lawfull money of Great Britain to be paid to him by my executor at his age of one and twenty years if he shall soe long live and not otherwise out of my personall estate and the house and land I hereby give to him and his heires..."

1798 Land Tax Redemption - Book 3 Entry 103756 John Cogger Proprietor/Occupier £2.8s. Riverhead.
1798 Land Tax Redemption - Book 3 No entry no. John Cogger Proprietor/Occupier £1.16s. Sundrish [Sundridge]
1798 Land Tax Redemption - Book 3 No entry no. Mrs Cogger Proprietor - T Blake Occupier 8s. Sundrish

According to John Garrett when John Cogger was buried he was described as Mr John Cogger, usually denoting that the person was of some position in local society. Last Will and Testament confirms this where he is described as a Yeoman, with holdings of 3 farms in and around the Sundridge/Sevenoaks area.

THE LAST WILL & TESTAMENT OF JOHN COGGER dated 24 April 1801
In the name of God Amen, I JOHN COGGER of NORMAN STREET in the Parish of SUNDRIDGE in the County of Kent, yeoman, being in good health of body and of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding praised be God for the same so make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following (that is to say first and principally) I recommend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator hoping for Salvation by and through the only Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ my Saviour and Redeemer and my body I commit to the Earth to be dutifully buried by, and at the discretion of, my Executors hereafter named.

Also I give and devise unto my Grandson JOHN STEVENS all that my Messuage or Tenement with the barns stables outbuildings yards banksides gardens and orchards together with all those several pieces or parcels of land arable meadows pasture and wood thereunto belonging or in any wist appertaining with them and every of their appurtenances situate lying and being at NORMAN STREET aforesaid in the said Parish of SUNDRIDGE and now in my own tenure or occupation and also all that my Messuage or Tenement with the outbuildings yard garden orchard ground and appurtenances thereunto so belonging situate lying and being at or near IDE HILL in the Parish of SUNDRIDGE aforesaid and in or late in the tenure or occupation of JOHN and WILLIAM STAPLES and which was heretofore the Estate and inhabitation of RICHARD MANLOVE to hold these said Messuages or Tenements and provisos before mentioned and every part and parcel thereof with those appurtenances unto my said Grandson JOHN STEVENS his heirs and assigns forever.

Also I do give and devise unto my grandson RICHARD STEVENS all that my Messuage or Tenement with the barns stables outhouses edifices and buildings yards barksides gardens orchards together with several pieces or parcels of land arable pastures and wood thereunto belonging to in any wist appertaining with them and every of their appurtenances and containing by estimation thirty acres be the same more or less situate lying and being at or near a certain place called the CROSS KEYS in the Parish of SEVENOAKS in the said County of Kent and now or last in the tenure and occupation of WILLIAM EVEREST his assigns or undertenants. To hold the said last habitation farm lands hereditaments and provisos unto my said Grandson RICHARD STEVENS his heirs and assigns forever

and whereas my son WILLIAM COGGER not being endowed with sufficient capacity to embark in public business for obtaining his livelihood and in order to insure him a permanent provision according to the best of my abilities and judgement I do hereby give and bequeath unto him the sum of ten shillings a week for and during the term of his natural life and do hereby confirm the same to hear in manner hereinafter mentioned, that is to say I give and bequeath unto my said son WILLIAM COGGER the sum of ten shillings a week to be paid to him weekly and every week for and during the term of his natural life, the first payment to begin and to be made on the second Monday next and immediately after my decease.

Also I give and bequeath unto SARAH COLE Spinster heretofore resident with me as my housekeeper and who was intended to have been my daughter in law by and of her marriage with my late son EDWARD COGGER deceased one quarterly or half yearly charge of twelve pounds per annum for and during the term of her natural life which I do want to be paid to her quarterly by my Executors hereinafter named, the first payment thereof to begin and be made on the first and next quarter day that shall happen after my decease

And it is my express...............will and .............and I do hereby charge and make liable all and every my Messuages or Tenements farms lands hereditaments and provisos with the appurtenances so by me given and devised to my said two grandsons JOHN STEVENS and RICHARD STEVENS as aforesaid to and with the payment of the said sum of ten shillings a week to my said son WILLIAM COGGER and twelve pounds per annum unto the said SARAH COLE in manner aforesaid in the following proportions, that is to say one moiety or equal half part thereof to be chargeable and payable out of the hereditaments and provisos so by me given and devised to my said Grandson JOHN STEVENS as aforesaid and the remaining moiety or equal half part thereof to be chargeable and payable out of the said hereditaments and provisos so by me devised to my said Grandson RICHARD STEVENS as aforesaid.

And in case it shall happen that the said weekly sum of ten shillings to my said son WILLIAM COGGER or the said annuity of twelve pounds to the said SARAH COLE so by us given and apportioned as aforesaid or either of them or any part of them or either of them shall be in arrears and unpaid after the time or times by me herein before appointed for the payment thereof respectively it shall and may be lawful and I do hereby empower my said son WILLIAM COGGER and the said SARAH COLE and each of them to enter into and upon the several Messuages or Tenements farms lands hereditaments and provisos so respectively charged with the payment thereof in the proportion aforesaid and into every or any part or parcel thereof and receive and take the rents issues and profits thereof to his and their own use and borrow it until he and she shall be fully paid and satisfied the said weekly sum of ten shillings and the said annuity of twelve pounds so given bequeathed and apportioned as aforesaid and all arrears thereof which shall be thus behind and unpaid and all such costs charges damages and expenses as he or she shall incur or sustain by reason of such nonpayment as aforesaid.

Also I give and bequeath unto my two daughters namely ELIZABETH the wife of MICHAEL RANGER and JANE the wife of JOHN POTTER the sum of one shilling each only I have already given my said daughters the sum of four hundred pounds a piece,

Also I give and bequeath unto ANNE CLARKE the widow of GEORGE CLARKE, Surgeon deceased the sum of twenty pounds

All which said above mentioned legacies I do direct to be paid within twelve months next after my decease and by my Executors hereinafter named also after payment of my just debts legacies funeral expenses probate of this my Will and other incident charges all the rest residue and remainder of my ready money debts goods chattels and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever the same may be I give and bequeath to my two said Grandsons JOHN STEVENS and RICHARD STEVENS their Executors administrators and assignees equally to be divided between them share and share alike and I do hereby make nominate and appoint the said JOHN STEVENS and RICHARD STEVENS the full and joint Executors of this my Last Will and Testament thereby revoking and making void all former and other wills by me formerly made

And lastly I do hereby entrust and request my two respected friends WILLIAM THOMPSON of SUNDRIDGE aforesaid farmer and WILLIAM HALL of BRASTED in the said County of Kent farmer (if occasion shall require) to be aiding and assisting and advising my said Executors in the due execution of this my Will and best performance thereof who I hope and trust will abide by their opinion question and advice thereof.

In witness whereof I the said JOHN COGGER the Testator this my Last Will and Testament contained in three sheets of paper to the two first sheets thereof have set my hand and to this last sheet my hand and Seal this twenty sixth day of July in the fortieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God and Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand and Eight hundred

JOHN COGGER has signed sealed published and declared by the said JOHN COGGER the Testator as and for his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses to the same the words "One shilling" in the two last lines of the second sheet being first wrote on an erasure. THOMAS HUTCHINS & JOHN HILDER, Attorneys, Sevenoaks, Kent JANE HUTCHINS

THIS WILL was proved as London on the twenty fourth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and One before the worshipful SAMUEL PEARSON PARSON Doctor of Laws and Surrogate of the Right Honorable SIR WILLIAM WYNN KNIGHT also Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oaths of JOHN STEVENS and RICHARD STEVENS the Grandsons of the deceased and Executors named in the said Will to whom administration was granted of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased having been first sworn duly to administer.

Precis of Will dated 26th July 1800 and proved 24th April 1801bequeaths his farm at Norman Street (where he was living) and his farm at Ide Hill (tenanted by John & William Staples and formerly owned by Richard Manlove) to his grandson John Stevens; and his farm at Cross Keys, Sevenoaks (tenanted by William Everest) to his grandson Richard Stevens. An annuity of 10s per week to his son William "not being endowed with sufficient capacity to embark in public business". An annuity to his housekeeper, Sarah Cole, who was to have married his son Edward. His daughters Elizabeth Ranger and Jane Potter, having already received £400 each as a dowry, received 1s. To Anne Clarke, widow of George Clarke, surgeon, £20. Residue to John & Richard Stevens, as executors; William Thompson of Sundridge and William Hall of Brasted as assistants.

A wealthy farmer owning farms in Norman Street Sundridge, Cross Keys Sevenoaks and elsewhere. Shown as Mr John Cogger when he was buried. Fathers name may have been Francis. The Cogger connection . Four generations of Coggers can be traced in the parish of Sundridge (to the west of Sevenoaks) between 1679 and 1732. However, we have found no connection as yet between them and John Cogger, father of Elizabeth Cogger who married Michael Ranger in 1775. The first we know of him is the birth of his daughter, Ann in 1743 (named after his wife). They had 13 children between then and 1763, of whom 8 survived beyond childhood.

John died in 1801 (his wife having died in 1777) and his will, made the year before, was proven four days before his burial. It shows him to be a man of substance, the owner of three farms, two of which were in Sundridge parish and one in Sevenoaks. John himself lived at his farm at Ide Hill, in the south of the parish, while leasing out the other two farms, at nearby Norman Street and at Cross Keys in Sevenoaks (it was possibly at these farms that Michael Ranger was a husbandman, or tenant farmer, perhaps accounting for his move from Sundridge to Sevenoaks between 1776 and 1778). These properties were divided between his two grandsons, John and Richard Stevens, sons of his daughter, Ann. Apart from other legacies, the will makes it clear that his daughter, Elizabeth had received a dowry of £400 on her wedding to Michael Ranger - no small sum in those days!

Mention of Sevenoaks led us to another will, that of John Cogger of Sevenoaks, who died in 1743. His will was made in 1738 and proven the year after his death. He appears to have been a bachelor, and his main legatee was his nephew, William Cogger, who inherited "all my Messuages Tenements Farms Land and premises with their appurtenances lying or being in the County of Kent or elsewhere". Sadly, he does not list these properties, but they give the impression of a man of some wealth. However, significant for our purposes is the fact that he bequeathed £50 to "my nephew John Cogger son of my brother Francis Cogger" We are still looking for proof of this connection, but we believe that Francis Cogger (born 1685, son of yet another John Cogger) had moved to the Ightham/Shipbourne area by 1711. He married Rachel Baldwin of Plaxtol in 1712; she died in 1713 and was buried at Wrotham, but by the time of his death in 1752 Francis was living at Sundridge, possibly with his son - he was buried with his wife at Wrotham. Unfortunately, our researches are hampered by the lack of marriage records for so many members of this family. SOURCE: Simon Ranger Hill, Ranger Newsletter 2

After further research Simon found that Norman Street Farm was not always in the family. It is mentioned in the will of a Thomas Greene of Sevenoaks, Mercer, in 1690, in which he bequeaths to his second son, John, the "messuage called Norman Streete with land belonging at Norman Streete in Sundrich now in occupation of Israell Cranwell, but mortgaged for £200 to Wm Hodsoll" However, in the Sevenoaks Archives there are title deeds for lands at Ide Hill, icl. Norman Street Farm from 1600-1783 which need to be checked.

Whilst searching the Sevenoaks Archives Simon Hill noted a pile of title deeds relating to the Ide Hill area, including Norman Street Farm and Ide Hill Farm, both of which formed a part of what appears to have been called the Everlands Estate. There seems to have been a joint interest in the estate held by T.A.Green and his wife, John Mason, Samuel Davis, Sarah Turney and John Tomlin ("draper of Berkhampstead") and his wife. The estate was sold around 1782 to a Rev Richard Rycroft (of Hanover Square, London), and sold on to Lord Frederick Campbell. Unfortunately, the deeds only go up to 1783, so no inkling of how the farms got into John Cogger's hands, but it is at least evident that they weren't in the family before him. One of the deeds is very thorough, and lists every field with the names of the tenants, but on a cursory inspection, Simon couldn't find any mention of Coggers or Rangers. By 1846 Norman Street Farm was in the hand of the Marchant family (as proven by the Chiddingstone MI - 62. Mary wife of William MARCHANT of Norman Street Farm Sundridge died 18 November 1846 aged 47 years)

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