♂John Cotreall Sr

John Cotreall (dates unknown) is known only as the father named in his son’s marriage record at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, in 1851. He was the great-great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son John Cotreall (born about 1820), Marie Virginia Cottrelle (1858–1937) and Jeffrey Delahorne (1899–1929).

On 15 May 1851 the curate of St. Gabriel recorded the marriage of John Cotreall the younger to Emilie Croker and described the groom as the son of John Cotreall and Eliza Steed. The son bore his father’s name. The entry gives no dates or places for either parent, and no baptism, marriage, death or other record of the elder John Cotreall has been found. The son was born in Virginia about 1820, according to the census of 1870, and the marriage register adds “a native of Mill county, Virginia” directly after the parents’ names, but the phrase describes the groom, not his mother. No Virginia county bears the name Mill, so the county meant is not known. Whether the elder John Cotreall ever came to Louisiana is not recorded. The priests and clerks who wrote down his son’s family spelled the surname Cotreall, Cutrell, Cottrille, Cotrell and Contrell.