My interest in Coggins started in the late 1970’s before home computers and internet. Through various genealogy research agencies and later internet I have accumulated various Coggins trees, records and information from UK, Australia, Canada and USA.This all now needs to sorted and put into some order. Meanwhile I am willing to share this information with those who enquire when relevant to their research.

Cockins

Name Origin
Celtic in origin, the name Coggins came from the rugged landscape of Wales. The name's origins go back to a time when the Coggins family lived in the parish of Cogan, which is in the diocese of Llandaff in the county of Glamorgan. The name literally means "a cup or bowl"

Historical occurrences of the name
The surname Coggins was first found in Glamorganshire (Welsh: Sir Forgannwg), a region of South Wales, anciently part of the Welsh kingdom of Glywysing at Cogan, a parish, in the union of Cardiff, hundred of Dinas- Powys, county of Glamorgan, South Wales.
Historical occurrencies of the name occurrences of the
"Cogan or Coggan is an ancient west of England name. There was a John de Cogan, of Hunispull, Somerset, in the reign of Edward I.; and in the reign of Richard II., William Cogan was sheriff of the county. De Cogan was a name found also in different parts of Devonshire in the time of Edward I., and it has long been an old Tiverton name."
Exploring Somerset in more detail, Richard Cogan was registered there 1 Edward III (during the first year of the reign of King Edward III) and the Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 included: John de Cogan, Somerset; and John de Cogan, Devon
"From this it is clear that the south-west forms of the s urname are derived from the Llandaff parish. To Somerset and Devon was not a long journey."
In Devon, Bampton was the passed from the Paganell "heiress to Sir Milo Cogan, 'the great soldier and undertaker of the Irish Conquest.' Her descendant, Richard Cogan, had licence in 1336 to castellate his mansion house at Bampton, and to empark his wood and other lands at Uffculme. Every vestige of the castle has long disappeared."
Scotland was home to the family about this time. "Peter Cogan witnessed the gift of an acre of land in Coldingham to the monks of St. Cuthbert, and Robert Cogan witnessed a charter of lands in Raynigton to the Priory of Coldingham, 1275. Robert Cogan del counte de Berewyk rendered homage, 1296 (tod King Edward during his invasion of Scotland)"