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William Cottingham 1838 - 1870

William Cottingham of Beaufort Australia was born in 1838 in Gravesend, Kent County, England United Kingdom. He was married to Jane (Hill) Cottingham in 1865, and had children William Thomas Cottingham and Margaret Hill (Cottingham) Tomasini. William Cottingham died at age 31 years old on July 7, 1870 in Beaufort, Pyrenees Shire County, VIC Australia.
William Cottingham
Beaufort Australia
1838
Gravesend, Kent County, England, United Kingdom
July 7, 1870
Beaufort, Pyrenees Shire County, VIC, 3373, Australia
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  • 1838

    Birthday

    1838
    Birthdate
    Gravesend, Kent County, England United Kingdom
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  • Nationality & Locations

    Australia
  • 07/7
    1870

    Death

    July 7, 1870
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Beaufort, Pyrenees Shire County, VIC 3373, Australia
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    William Cottingham lived 41 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 32.
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In 1838, in the year that William Cottingham was born, on January 11th in New Jersey, Samuel Morse and two others first publicly demonstrated Morse's new invention - the telegraph. Patented by Morse in 1837, the electrical telegraph used a code developed by him and his assistant, Samuel Vail, and sent a message two miles. In 1844, Morse broadcast from Washington DC to Baltimore Maryland the message "What hath God wrought" and the telegraph took off.
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In 1844, when he was only 6 years old, on July 3rd, the last known pair of great auk were killed in Iceland. A flightless bird, the average auk was about 33 inches tall and weighed about 11 pounds with a black back and white belly. They were most often found along the coast of Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Canada Great Britain, Ireland - and sometimes as far south as Spain.
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Jane (Hill) Cottingham

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William Cottingham

1865
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