The surname has all but died out in the UK, with just four Coolidge households appearing in the 1939 register, but today in the United States there are around 3,000 people named Coolidge, with the highest concentration in Massachusetts[i].
The first Coolidge identified in our own family tree is William Cooledge, a farmer who died in 1618, and was buried in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire. He fathered six children and our own line is descended from his third son John, one of the first Puritan settlers of the town of Watertown, Massachusetts, New England.
William Cooledge (1563 – 1618) married Margaret Mayse (? – 1584)
At least eight children: Rychard, William, John, Thomas, Elizabeth, Simon, Margaret, and John
John Coolidge (1604 – 1691) married Mary Ravens (1602 – 1691)
At least seven children: John, Nathaniel, Mary, Stephen, Obadiah, Jonathan, and Elizabeth
Nathaniel Coolidge (1634 – 1711) married ?
At least one child: Joseph
Joseph Coolidge (1684 – 1749) married Elizabeth Bond (1685 – 1736)
At least one child: Samuel
Samuel Coolidge (1721 – 1753) married Ruth Clarke (? – 1753)
At least three children: Joseph, Samuel, and Moses
Moses Coolidge (1753 – 1838) married Hannah Stowell (1757 – ?)
At least four children: Cornelius, Samuel Frederick, Joseph, and Ebenezer
Samuel Frederick Coolidge (1780 – 1861) married Ann ‘Nancy’ Sanderson (1783 – ?)
At least five children: Julia Ann, Frederick William Skinner, Charlotte Augusta, Mary Sanderson, and Grace Sanderson
Frederick William Skinner Coolidge (1816 – 1896) married Elisabeth Neville Brevoort (1822-1875)
Four children: William Augustus Brevoort, Laura Sanderson, Frederick William, and Elizabeth Brevoort
William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge (1850 – 1926)
[i] American Surnames https://americansurnames.us/surname/coolidge last accessed 17 Dec 2021
