Re: Is Buffalo Bill Cody related to Cote?
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Re: Is Buffalo Bill Cody related to Cote?
2/22/02
The Cody family from which Buffalo Bill descends was originally Les Caude or LeGody or some other similar name.They came from the Isle of Jersey directly to the colony of Massachusetts and there is no known connection to the French-Canadian Cote.
I frequently hear stories about families named Cody whose ancestors remember meeting BB and believing there was a familial connection.I'm beginning to think these meeting happened but I believe BB himself didn't know about his own heritage and may have assumed the same name constituted a realtionship.