Historical information
History of the Coghill Family from the 1700s.
Physical description
Typed and handwritten papers relating to the Coghill Family.
Inscriptions & markings
Part ot the handwritten history "The Coghill Family - 13-9-40 Statement by Mr Henry Holmes of Essendon" includes the following:
(Page 1)
"The original Captain Coghill owned Glendaruel and Glendonald Stations (the homestead of the latter was Andrew Munro's original home.) He had five sons and two daughters ... William Coghill Jnr, a son of Captain Coghill married Miss Catherine Dorothy Holmes. They had no family and they adopted William and Henry Holmes, their nephews, who were the sons of Edward Carter Holmes, brother of Mrs William Coghill Jnr.
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"The family, and descendants of Edward Carter Holmes, via the William Holmes lineage, lived at "Sauchiburn" Ascot, Vic. The property, fronting what was to become known as Lesters Road, was sold by the family in the 1980's.
The namesake of Lesters Road, Mrs Helen Lester (nee Coghill), had also descended from the original Coghill settlers.
During my 1960 - 1970 childhood in the area, the Lesters lived opposite "Sauchieburn" on a property called "Burnside". In 1950 a stone cairn commemorating the original Coghill settlers had been sited on the roadside common between both properties by descendants of the Coghill Holmes family. https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/5b0e196821ea69108c477463.
The Lester property was subsequently purchased by another Edward Carter Holmes descendant, Graeme Spittle from "Mount Cavern" Ascot, and David Glenn and Chris Canning https://lambley.com.au/visit/
I believe descendants via my mother's, Elizabeth Chatham (nee Holmes), lineage continue to farm and /or reside in the adjacent Ascot vicinity on the "Launchley", "Gleno" and "Hazeldean" properties. Interestingly, "Hazeldean" had been originally owned by Robert Reid and his wife Adelaide Helen Reid (nee Holmes). Adelaide and Catherine Coghill (nee Holmes) were sisters." [Memory of Jane Dyer (nee Chatham) 2025]
Subjects
- coghill,
- pioneer family,
- land settlement in victoria,
- new south wales,
- captain john coghill,
- donald john coghill,
- will of william coghill senior,
- indenture agreement,
- david coghill,
- william baldwin,
- talbot,
- elizabeth coghill,
- margaret coghill,
- christina coghill,
- george coghill,
- helen coghill,
- john coghill,
- catherine dorothy holmes
