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Cotehele Surname Definition:
COTEHELE: From Cotehele or Cuthill in Calstock; from cut-hill, coit-hayle, the wood on the river. "Cuthill was the most ancient seat of the knightly family of Edgecombes in Cornwall. It came into that family by the marriage of Hilaria, daughter and heir of William de Cotehele, with William de Edgecombe in the reign of Edw.
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COTEHELE: From Cotehele or Cuthill in Calstock; from cut-hill, coit-hayle, the wood on the river. "Cuthill was the most ancient seat of the knightly family of Edgecombes in Cornwall. It came into that family by the marriage of Hilaria, daughter and heir of William de Cotehele, with William de Edgecombe in the reign of Edw. III."
— Patronymica Cornu-Britannica (1870) by Richard Stephen Charnock
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