Cogill Family Queensland

12/04/2026

Sad news for our USA Cogell family.

I have a DNA match to this Cogell family and meet up with their family historian while in Canada. Sad to hear their news but I can see why there is a DNA match.

09/04/2026

George Henry Cogill Diddillibah State School. What do you think? From an unnamed photo. Margaret and Alex would be in it too. Photo from 1887 to 1901.

09/04/2026

This is the land Old Dan Cogill would have cleared and then grew small crops and sugarcane on. I had no idea that the land was this rocky.
Description from Buderim Past and Present fb page. Mount Ninderry appears in the background, and that is likely the trees adjacent to Buderim House on the far right. The rock will all be fractured Blue Basalt, deposited by volcanic action long ago. View from Gloucester Street.

04/03/2026

Sending our love and thoughts to the Maryborough Cogills who lost their father this week. Noel George Cogill son of George Walker and Mabel Cogill, grandson of Hugh Cogill and Greatgrandson of Old Dan and Elizabeth Cogill. RIP

27/01/2026

Greg Cogill, great grandson of George Henry Cogill Snr.

21/01/2026

Can you image having to hitch all these bullocks up. I remember dad saying it was one of his jobs, as a very young boy, to hitch bullocks - while living at Mapleton. George Henry Cogill and many of his sons had or worked bullock teams including my granddad Don. Jim Cogill, son of Old Dan had teams down on the Maroochy River. Old Dan, and his sons had and worked Teams. Hugh in Tiaro and Maryborough region, William Cogill in Tolgo, Tablelands, John Cogill Helidon and Brisbane region. George H Browne, husband of Elizabeth Cogill worked until 1950s with teams at Diddillibah - even after a dray accident. This info is from census records sorry if I missed your branch. We have photos of George Henry’s and Jim’s teams. Would love to see any other working photos of the family.

14/01/2026

Introducing one of our strong, Cogill family women leaders. Jody Butcher is the ggreatgranddaughter of George Henry Snr and Charlotte Cogill. And granddaughter of Col and Heather Cogill. She brings joy to her family with her energy and drive.

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11/12/2025

Julie Brims honoured on the Maryborough Walk of Achievers. Julie is a Hugh Cogill descendant - son of Old Dan and Elizabeth. Congratulations Julie.

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09/12/2025

For the family researchers - Familysearch.org is a free ancestry collection of worldwide data. They have scanned all of their microfilm records and they are now available online. A new feature is the “Full text” feature under search. AI has attempted to transcribe documents (not totally correct) but names are now coming up in search. I have been working through the deeds of Daniel Cogill 71st Regiment in Guysborough and have uncovered some fantastic records of the original farm which I visited last year. The Cogill family appear to have moved from the inner town of Guysborough to Lot 28,29 - containing 30 acres each - Front Division Milford Haven 1796.

Happy to discuss if you are interested. I’ve located at least 14 deeds referencing our family from 1784 to 1890 in the Guysborough area. Old Dan’s father may have occupied land as late as 1860.

17/11/2025

Interesting. Don’t know how good the source is but Cogill/Cogle/Coghill Caithness farms are all around this area. My brothers BigY DNA links us back to a very old Cogill Caithness family.

We have bricklayers in the family. Any masons?

10/11/2025

Lest we forget.

I’m aware we have several other warriors but alias no photos.

Old Dan’s father and grandfather were also soldiers. His sons George and Donald were in WWI. Many of their descendents were also soldiers.

A quick search on the any War records you will find many Cogill relatives. And yes even Coghill/ Cogle/Cogell/Coggill Caithness/USA relatives.

I have an extensive public Family tree - cogill Family tree on Ancestry which details our distant relatives now slowly being verified with DNA matching.

Still not sure on the Caithness family we directly belong to but have been trawling through Military records. Lots of Cogills in the Black Watch.

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10/11/2025

Lest we forget. Old Dan’s son Donald also fought in WWI