The Coy Family of Gravesend, Kent, England

This text traces the Coy family from Bermondsey/Rotherhithe, Surrey in the 1680s through the eighteenth-twentieth centuries in Gravesend, Kent. Emigrants from Gravesend are followed to Canada and the United States of America.

Chapter 1 1680-1740	Chapter 2 The Next Generation 1740-1800	Chapter 3 Upper Canada	Chapter 4 Francis Isaac Coy and Robert Coy
Chapter 5 Part One Chapter 5 Part Two The Fifth Generation of Watermen	Chapter 6 Part One Chapter 6 Part Two Chapter 6 Part Three More Coy Family Branches	Chapter 7 Sarah Coy and her children	Chapter 8 Alice Maud Coy
Chapter 9 Continuing the story of Warrington Coy	Chapter 10 Henry James Coy sails to New York	Chapter 11 Developments in Upper Canada	Chapter 12 Emily Amelia Coy’s story extended
Chapter 13 Twenty First Century
Appendix 1 Shipwright’s Company	Appendix 2 The Coys at Hatfield Peveril, Essex	Appendix 3 Shipwright Indenture Haffel Coy - 1803	Appendix 4 Two Customs Watermen Drowned
Appendix 5 Six Months In The Water	Appendix 6 Kingston, Canada in 1815	Appendix 7 Early Photography in Kingston	Appendix 8 Virtual Tour at Gravesham
Appendix 9 Death Edward Coy 1861	References	Index to Surnames and Places	Chapter 11a Canada with extra census data

Photographic Trails in Gravesend following the Coy Family

Trail One

Trail Two

Trail Three

Trail Four

Index of streets and surnames

References

Census Data 1841-1891 for Gravesend and 1851-1901 for Upper Canada

Coy 1841	Coy 1851	Coy 1861	Coy 1871	Coy 1881
Coy 1891	Coy 1901
Canada census 1851 and 1861	Canada census 1871	Canada census 1881 and 1891	Canada census 1901

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Outing in 1933

Memories Extra

Births, Marriages, Deaths & Apprenticeships

Coy births St Catherine's data	Coy marriages St Catherine's data	Coy deaths St Catherine's data
St Botolph Baptism and Burial	St Peter & St Paul Baptism, Marriage and Burial	St George Baptism, Marriage and Burial
Holy Trinity Baptism	St James Baptism	Colyer-Fergusson Transcripts Baptism and Marriage
Society Genealogists Baptism and Burial	Apprentices 1636-1834 Gravesend & Milton	Watermen Coy watermen in Gravesend

Gravesend Cemetery

Updated 1901 census on Feb 2003