A stuffed Cinnamon Light Green budgerigar hen owned by Mrs Ellis of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, in 1935 and said then to be at least 50 years old was thought by Cyril Rogers to be wild-caught when he examined it
Among his many notable American descendants is U.S. President J. Calvin Coolidge.
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Cottenham has a fairly wide range of amenities in the village, including two GP surgeries, a dental surgery, a library, a Co-operative store and pharmacy, a junior school, and Cottenham Village College which is a secondary school and adult education college.
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Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury between 1695 and 1715 was born in Cottenham in 1636.
Sir Charles Pepys, 3rd Baronet (1781–1851) (created Baron Cottenham in 1833 and Earl of Cottenham in 1850)
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It was created in 1850 for the prominent lawyer and Whig politician Charles Pepys, 1st Baron Cottenham.
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The title of the earldom is derived from the village of Cottenham (pronounced "Cot-nam") in Cambridgeshire, birthplace of John Pepys, ancestor of the first Earl, and great-uncle of Samuel Pepys the diarist.
Most windmills had four sails, although some had five (Boston), six (Waltham, Lincs) or eight sails Heckington, Lincs and there is one recorded twelve sailed windmill (Cottenham, Cambs).
His earliest American ancestor, John Coolidge, emigrated from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England, around 1630 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts.
In 2011, XS Latin opened a B Team, also based in Cambridge (practising in Cottenham).