George Coles and his brother James emigrated from Somersetshire, England sometime early in the 19th century. George first settled at Greens Shore, now called St. Eleanor's, but soon moved to Milton. A few years later his brother James moved to Charlottetown. James was married to Sarah Tally and had a large family, among them the Hon. George Coles who was the first premier of the province of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
George received a conveyance of land in St. Eleanor's on 24 November 1812 but from the records he had a son born there in January of the same year. In 1814 this child was baptized in Milton.
It is assumed that George and James and their wives emigrated together but this is not certain. If so then they came between the summer of 1809 and 1810 for James was married in Evercreech, Somerset, England in May 1809 and his eldest child was born in Charlottetown in September of 1810. George and Margaret are said to have left behind them in England two children.
On his gravestone in St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Milton the spelling of his surname is COALS and for this reason several generations of his descendants did not recognize him as their forefather.

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It had been suspected that George Coles and James Coles were the sons of George Coles and Catherine Penny. This suspicion came about purely by the fact that James Coles and his wife Sarah Tally called their second born son John Daniel Penny Coles and their first born son was George Coles, so the Penny name stuck out there and was worthy of researching in that direction.
A baptism for James Coles was finally found in Pylle, Somerset at St. Thomas-a-Becket Church, he was baptized 29 Feb 1784 to George Coles and Catherine Penny. A baptism for George has not yet been found. George Coles and Catherine Penny were married at Saint Peter’s Church in Evercreech, Somerset on 8 Jun 1768. At the time of there marriage George was listed as being from the parish of Doulting, Somerset, and Catherine from the parish of Evercreech, Somerset. From this marriage the following children have been found baptized, 1. John, on 28 May 1774, at St. Peter and Paul Church, Shepton Mallet, Somerset 2. Stephen, on 14 June 1778, at St. Thomas-a-Becket Church, Pylle, Somerset 3. William, on 7 May 1780, at St. Thomas-a-Becket Church, Pylle, Somerset 4. and James as above 5. Issacher, on 20 Nov 1785, at St. Thomas-a-Becket Church, Pylle, Somerset, he was buried 16 Dec 1786 in Evercreech, Somerset 6. Issacher, on 21 Mar 1788, at St. Thomas-a-Becket Church, Pylle, Somerset, he was buried 15 Nov 1789 in Evercreech, Somerset.
George Coles, gravestone reads George Coals died November 12, 1846 aged 76 years Native of Summersetshire, England, this would have George born about 1770.
In conclusion, George Coles, where was he baptized, the records in the parishes of Evercreech, Pylle, Doulting, Shepton Mallet, Brewham, Nunney, East Pennard, Ditcheat have been searched, have the transcribers missed him, were the records illegible for that period in any of these records, is he hiding under a spelling issue? Parishes that are worthy of researching next could be Milton, Bruton, Pilton, Cranmore, Clevedon, Batcombe.
Are there any other persons researching this family? Are there any living descendants of any of these people who may be still in England? Who were Catherine Penny's parents?