Cottlesville Book Chapter 1
CHAPTER 1
COTTLESVILLE’S BEGINNINGS
Cottlesville: A Picturesque Glimpse
Cottlesville is a small, quiet and rugged town on the west coast of New
World Island. The waves are still pounding the shores as they
were seen by our founders before us. During peaceful evenings
on the rugged rocky shore, one can see the red and orange glow of
the sun's rays dropping across neighbouring Samson’s and Black
Islands. In the last fading glimmer of light, boats can be seen
in our peacefull harbour as the tides rise and fall.
People Came From Surrounding Areas
Before our ancestors settled in Cottlesville they lived on Cottles
Island, just across the tickle from Cottlesville. Other
nearby place names were often derived from persons who resided
there. The Lockes came to Locke’s Cove to build a vessel.
Forward’s Cove got it's name from a family of Forwards that lived
there. Rideouts lived in Back Cove (on Cottles Island) and more
lived inside Varked Island in Rideout’s Cove. John Barnes lived
in Basil's Cove for years because there was plenty of wood there.
Levi Anstey lived on Levi's Island. Uncle Billy Cooper grew
vegetables on Daddy Cooper's Island. Burnt Island because it
burnt over one time. Rushy Cove had rushing water flowing
out. Pot Cove has a pot in the cliff. Cow Hill used to have
cows on it. Figure 5 Some Cottlesville
Residents - Early 1900's
1. Zeebeedee Flight
2. Joseph Flight
3. William Stephen Cooper
4. James Rideout
5. Mark Mugford
6. Job Anstey
7. Eli Anstey
8. Thomas Pryor
9. Samuel Rideout
10. William Philpott
11. Levi Anstey
12. Samuel King
13. Johnny Manuel
14. Charlie King
15. George Bulgin
16. Fred Poole
17. George White
18. Alpheous Rideout
19. Kenneth Rideout
20. Charley Canning
21. Ambrose Rideout
22. Permanous Rideout
23. Charlie Froude
Early Settlers of Cottlesville
Note: Place from which they came given in brackets if
known.
1. Joseph Anstey (Black Island) & Isabella Hindes
(Black Island)
Keziah, Jemima, Mary Ann, Drusilla,
Andrew, Job, Ephriam, Martha
& Eli (1st baby in Cottlesville)
2. George Bulgin (Twillingate) & Emma ?
Norman, Harry, Ralph & Mark
3. Charlie Canning (Bridgeport) & Sarah ?
Robert, John, Mary, Isabelle & Alice
4. Founder: Stephen Cooper &
Mary Elizabeth Minty (Twillingate)
George, William, Stephen Jr, Selena, Kate &
Hannah, (Stephen Jr moved to Comfort Cove)
5. James Eddy & Carrie ?
Mary Ann & Gladys (twins)
6. Alfred Flight \ William Cooper & Selena Taylor
(Morten’s Hr)
Joseph, Zebedee & Augustus \ Frederick,
Mary Elizabeth, Alfred, Lou Ellen &
Cecilia
7. Charlie Froude (Twillingate) & Knelda
Rideout (Whales Gulch)
Frank,Stanley, Wilson, May, Blossom &
Blanche
8. Charlie King (Change Islands) & Mary Jane
Bulgin (Twillingate)
Gordon, Bessie, Elsie & Annie
9. Samuel King (Change Islands)
& Julia
Adams \ Rosalee Short (Long
Island)
Stan, Dawe,
Lewis, Carrie & Dora \
Blanche &
Elsie Short, & Arthur King
10. John Manuel & ?
11. Elihu Moores & Selena Lee (Twillingate)
Minnie,
Bessie, Della, Lewis & Chesley
12. Mark Mugford (Crow Head) & Phoebe
Poole
Alex, Bennett,
Agnes, Gertrude & Nellie
13. William Philpott (Salt Harbour) & Harriet
Barnes (Salt Harbour)
George,
Stanley, James, Mark, Peter,
Maude, Mary, Jane & Lydia
14. Fred Poole & Mary Ann Baker (Samson’s
Island)
Austin, Peter
& Daisy, ?, ?
15. Thomas Pryor (England) & Mary Janes
George,
Augustus, John & Francis
16. Rideout Brothers:
Samuel, Jim
(James), Kenneth &
Ambrose (all from Western Head)
Samuel &
Moriah Jones (Point of Bay)
Hedley,
Kenneth, Ford, Alwyn, Pearl,
Daisy, Sylvia & George
Jim (James)
& Selena Cooper
Kenneth &
Jane Jennings (Western Head)
Stella,
Sophia, Lillian & Vaden (Stella married
Archibald Boyd of Summerford
Ambrose
- Elizabeth Nicholls
James Jr.,
Cadiz, Bertha, Sarah, Simon, Sidney, Winnie,
Millie, Jessie
& Philemina
17. Rideout Brothers:
Alfeoious,
Permanous &
Jonas (all from Western Head)
Alfeoious
& Effie Jennings
(Western Head)
Harry, Arthur,
Netta, Mable,
Sadie, Hardy, Lillian, Ruby &
Olive
Permanous
& Lucy Taylor (Morten’s Harbour)
Allan, Peter
& Gladys
Jonas &
Bennetta Potter (Black Island)
Wallace &
Kathleen
18. George White (Western Head) & Elizabeth
?
Arthur,
Dawson, Steward, Nellie,
Florence, Beatrice & Jane
Name Change
Our town has not always been called Cottlesville. Different maps
of the area in years prior to our generation, have called this section
of land Cottle’s Island, Cottles Island, Cottle Island, Cottel
Island, Cotell Island, Cattle Island, Cottle Village, Cottle's Cove,
Cottles Cove and Cottle Cove. These name changes have been both
accidental and intentional. The changing of the name in 1980 from
Cottles Island to Cottlesville was the result of a democratic
referendum with over 80 percent in favor. It was the first time
the Community had a legal name. Other changes have probably been
due to misspelling because many people could not write. The
first inhabitants lived on the island off our Northern Shore divided by
a tickle. When the residents of the islands moved to the mainland
they brought the name "Cottles" with them, but to make the distinction
between the island and the mainland they used "cove" and "village."
Lukes Arm which is now a part of Cottlesville was recorded in 1911 in
the census as being its own town. In 1951 they were both reported
under the same name, Cottles Island. It remains a mystery as to
why the name Cottle was applied. "Cottle" is a British family
name, also known as "Cotel" and "Coutelle."
Cottlesville is an incorporated community composed of two settlements,
called Cottle's Island and Luke's Arm, located in three coves on
opposite sides of a small peninsula on the southwest side of New World
Island. This peninsula is bounded on the east by Luke's Arm (from
which the settlement of Luke's Arm took it's name), on the north by
Puzzle Bay, and on the west by Cottle's Bay and Cottle's Island, a
small island off the tip of the peninsula, from which the community of
Cottles Island took it's name. Off the northern tip of Cottles
Island is a tiny island called Storehouse Island. It is possible
that both islands were seasonally occupied by fishermen who wintered in
the nearby sheltered coves of New World Island and eventually moved
year - round to Cottle's Island and Luke's Arm.
Cottles Island is first reported in the Census of 1884, with a
population of 25, five families of Wesleyan Methodists who probably
came to Cottle's Island from the Twillingate Islands. According
to E.R. Seary (1891) most of the family names associated with the
communities - Anstey, Cooper, King, Flight, Moors, Mugford, Philpott,
Prior, Rideout and Watkins - were in the Twillingate area from the
1700's and 1800's. By 1891 the population had grown to 47, which
included several Church of England families. Luke's Arm is first
reported in the Census of 1911, with a population of 60, mainly
Methodist and Salvation Army families, while Cottle's Island had a
population of 76 in that year, also Methodist and Salvation Army. Both
communities were reported separately in censuses until 1951 when they
were reported simply as Cottle's Island it had a population of 154 in
1951 and 436 in 1966. In 1972 the community of Cottle's Island -
Luke's Arm was renamed Cottlesville (Royal Gazette: Aug. 15,
1980).
Census
1884 - Cottles Island - 25
1891 - Cottles Island - 47
1901 - Cottles Island - 75
1911 - Cottles Island - 76
1911 - Lukes Arm - 60
1921 - Cottles Island - 93
1921 - Lukes Arm - 67
1934 - Cottles Island - 121
1934 - Lukes Arm - 70
1945 - Cottles Island - 149
1945 - Lukes Arm - 79
1951 - Cottles Island-Lukes Arm - 279
1956 - Cottles Island-Lukes Arm - 319
1961 - Cottles Island-Lukes Arm - 374
1966 - Cottles Island-Lukes Arm - 436
1971 - Cottles Island-Lukes Arm - 433
1976 - Cottles Island-Lukes Arm - 404
1981 - Cottlesville - 415
1991 - Cottlesville - 375
1996 - Cottlesville - 325 (estimate)
Early Land Grants
Stephen Cooper:
Cottles
Island, Sept. 1885.
Joseph, Job, Ephriam & Eli Anstey:
Blackhead
Cove, Sept. 1893.
Henry Philpott:
Cottles
Island, Dec. 1893.
Thomas Pryor:
Cottles
Island, April 1894.
John Manuel:
Cotrels Cove, Dec. 1894.
John Cannings:
Lukes Arm,
1912.
William, George, Stanley, Mark and Peter Philpott: Cottles Island, 1913.
Joseph Flight:
Cottles Island, Sept. 1945.