Name origin: In Welsh, Cyffin, signifies a boundary, a limit, a hill; cefyn the ridge of a hill. The name has its origin from Co, high, exalted, and fin, a head, extremity, boundary.
b.abt.1392 prob.Alwington, Devonshire, England; parents ukn
d.1427
m.abt.1422 prob.Alwington, Devonshire, England Thomasin Hathey
b.abt.1396 prob. Alwington, Devonshire, England
d.aft.1427
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b.abt.1423 Alwington, Devon, England; s/o John Coffin and Thomasin Hathey
d.Sept. 11, 1486
m.abt.1453 prob.Alwington, Devon, England Margaret Giffard
b.abt.1427 prob. Alwington, Devon, England d/o Thomas Giffard and Wilmot Knight
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b.ca.1456 Portledge, Near Bideford, Devon, England; s/o William Coffin and Margaret Giffard
m.abt.1476 Merston, Shropshire, England; Alice Gambon
b.abt. 1460 Merston, Shropshire, England; d/o John Gambon
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b.abt.1475 prob.Portledge, Devonshire, England; s/o Richard Coffin and Alice Gambon
m.Elizabeth (Phillippa) Hingston
b.abt.1475 prob.Portledge, Devonshire, England d/o Phillip Hingston
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b.abt.1500 Portledge, Devonshire, England; s/o John Coffin and Elizabeth Hingston
d.Dec. 24, 1555 Alwington, Devonshire, England
m.abt.1523 Merifield, Near St. Germans, Cornwall, England; Wilmot Chudleigh
b.abt.1488 Merifield, Cornwall, England; d/o Richard Chudleigh and Mary (Waddam) Wadham
d.June 13, 1569 Alwington, Devonshire, England
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b.abt.1540 Portledge, Near Bideford, Devon, England; s/o Richard Coffin and Wilmot Chudleigh
d.Dec. 15, 1566 prob. Monkleigh, Devon, England
m.1534 Portledge, Devon, England; Mary Cole
b.1516 Knoston, Devon, England
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b.1535 Portledge, Devonshire, England; s/o James Coffin and Mary Cole
m.1560 prob.Brixton, Devonshire, England Mary Boscawen
b.Jan. 20, 1552 St. Michael, Penkivel, Cornwall, England d/o Hugh Boscawen and Phillippa Carminow
d.Sept. 4, 1622 Pankeville, Nr Brixton, Devonshire, England
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b.Nov. 1561 Butler's Parish, Brixton, Devonshire, England; s/o Peter Coffin and Mary Boscawen
d.Oct. 8, 1613 Butler's Parish, Brixton, Devonshire, England
m.1583 Brixton; Joan Avent
b.1550 Butler's Parish, Brixton, Devon, England
d.Feb. 5, 1614 Butler's Parish, Brixton, Devon, England
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b.1580 Brixton, Devonshire, England; s/o Nicholas Coffin and Joan Avent
d.March 13, 1627/28 Brixton, Devonshire, England
m.1608 Brixton Parish, Brixton, Devonshire, England; Joanna (Jeanna) Kember
b.1584 Brixton, Plymouth, Devon, England; d/o Robert Kember and Anna _____
d.May 30, 1661 Boston, MA
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b.March 11, 1609 Plymouth, Brixton Parish, Devonshire, England; s/o Peter Coffin and Joanna Kember
d.Oct. 20, 1681 Nantucket, MA
m.1629/30 Brixton Parish, Devonshire, England; Dionis Stevens (Stephens)
b.March 4, 1609 Plymouth, Brixton, Devon, England; d/o Robert Stevens
d.Sept. 16, 1676 Nantucket, MA
From Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700 by Holmes: TRISTRAM, b.Buxton, Dorsetshire, Eng., came with his mother, Joanna, widow of Peter, in 1643, to Newbury, Mass.; afterwards resided at Salisbury, Mass., and in 1660 settled at Nantucket, Mass.
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b.Feb. 1, 1632 Plymouth, Brixton Parish, Devonshire, England; s/o Tristam Coffin and Dionis Stevens
d.Feb. 4, 1704 Newbury, MA
m.March 2, 1652 Newbury, MA; Judith Greenleaf
b.Sept. 2, 1625 Ipswich, Suffolk, England; d/o Edward Greenleaf and Sarah Dole
d.Dec. 15, 1705 Newbury, MA
When Tristram's father left Newbury, Tristram Jr. stayed behind. He was very active in town and church affairs holding a number of positions in town government. In about 1654 Tristram erected the Coffin home on what is now High Street in Newbury. This house, one of oldest still standing in North America, is now owned by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities and may be visited by the public.
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