| Margaret Cottier
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| Full Name:
| Margaret Cottier
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| Parents
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| ID Number:
| 672
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| Thomas Cottier
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| Born:
| 14 November 1791
| Marown
| Katherine Kermode
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| Christening:
| 20 November 1791
| Marown
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| Death:
| 21 March 1861
| Douglas
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| Buried:
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| Marriage:
| 6 December 1813
| Edward Lawson
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| CHILDREN
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| John
| Born: 21 November 1814
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| Died: 11 July 1829
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| Edward
| Born: 22 December 1816
| Married: Hannah Scott
| Died: 15 Jun 1890
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| Thomas
| Born: 1 November 1818
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| Died: 25 December 1825
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| James
| Born: 5 November 1820
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| Died, 10 July 1837
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| Mary Ann
| Born: 15 December 1822
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| Died: 17 November 1842
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| Joseph
| Born: 9 December 1824
| Married: Eleanor Garrett, Ruth Greenway
| Died:1 january 1896
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| Jane
| Born: 22 September 1826
| Married: William Mc Neil
| Died: 24 February 1882
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| Thomas
| Baptized: 15 November 1828
| Married: Catherine Moore
| Died: 13 August 1898
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| Margaret
| Baptized: 20 March 1831
| | Died: 20 July 1831
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| Margaret
| Baptized: 7 April 1832
| | Died: 27 June 1833
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| John
| Baptized: 12 June 1834
| | 8 March 1852
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Margaret Cottier was born on the 14th of November, 1791, at Marown
(baptized on the 20th of November), the daughter of Thomas Cottier
and Katherine Kermode. She died on the 21st of March, 1861, at
Douglas. Margaret appears to have been an early exponent of women's
equality for at her death she left a shilling to each of her sons
with the remainder of her large estate going to her daughter Jane.
This did cause some hardship. By all accounts Margaret was a very
domineering women running the life of her family and this may have
been her final act of control.