Anne Reid Wait married George R Gray, they are my 2nd Great Grandparents
Parents of Anne Reid Wait: Alexander Wait & Euphemia Cockburn -3rd Great Grandparents
Parents of Alexander Wait: ???
Alexander Wait (1813-1872) & Euphemia Cockburn (1819-)
Married: 1/3/1838 *Source: familysearch
Scotland to Canada
John Wait 1841-1903
Anne Reid Wait (1842-1900) 2nd Great Grandmother
Married: 11/25/1867 *Source: Scanned Copy of Certificate
2nd Wife: Amelia M Henry (1871-1955)
Wayne, Michigan to Claremont, Dodge, Minnesota
Robert Cockburn Gray (1870-1930) never married
George Alvey Gray (1871-1957) m: Clare Maud Lynch (1879-1946)
Claremont, Dodge, Minnesota *Riverview Farm
Obituary: b. 10/8/1842, Chatham, Western Ontario, Canada
(age 20) moved to Detroit, MI to live with an uncle
In Canada she united with the Church of England
The only information I had about Anne’s family was from the Biographical Sketch of her brother, John Wait. After much research, I conclude that there were many misspellings in the sketch; the following information covers the changes I (Jody Gray) made to my Ancestry.com Profile Pages: Alexander Wait; Euphemia Cockburn, Anne Reede Wait, Robert Cockburn Gray *John Wait
Ancestry and Google Searches
Given Name of Anne's Mother: Euphenna or Euphemia
Maiden Name of Anne's Mother: Colburn or Cockburn
Google: Euphemia, early martyr from Chalcedon; Euphemia shows up often in Scotland
Diminutives: Effie, Eppie, Femie, Phemie (English)
Ancient martyr’s name that, though not especially appealing might still be mildly possible, especially for Anglophiles [a person who is fond of or greatly admires England or Britain]. It was widely used in early Scotland, but was overtaken by its nickname, Effie.
Euphenna doesn’t come up as a common name… all the people that do come up are from Scotland. *Google asks, Did you mean: Euphemia or Eugenia
Conclusion: Euphemia
familysearch Results
Euphemia Cockburn b. 8/29/1819, Eyemouth, Berwick, Scotland
Father: Robert Cockburn
Mother: Anne Reid *a common Ulster-Scot Surname
Eureka! Anne was named after her grandmother (including her Surname)
Anne Wait named her son, Robert Cockburn after her grandfather
Alexander Wait
B 1813, Berwickshire, Scotland
Immigration: New York Passenger Lists - Arrival: 7/16/1838, Ship William Tell. Port of Departure, Glasgow. Place of Origin, Scotland. Occupation, Carpenter
Alexander Wait m: Euphemia Cockburn
1/3/1838, Chirnside, Berwick, Scotland
Note (Jody Gray): I found different spellings of Robert C Gray’s middlename, Cockfurn and Cockburn;
Google Search: Cockfurn Surname
Surnames Cockburn
The word above "Cockburn" is the correct spelling for the word. It is very easy to misspell a word like Cockburn...
Google Search: Cockburn Surname
Cockburn /ˈkoʊbərn/ is a Scottish surname that originated in the Borders region of the Scottish Lowlands. In the United States most branches of the same family have adopted the simplified spelling 'Coburn'; other branches have altered the name slightly to 'Cogburn'. The French branch of the family uses the spelling 'de Cockborne', with the middle "ck" being pronounced.
Cockburn baronetcies: there have been two Cockburn Baronetcies in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia.
Scotland Clans: Cockburn *Crowing Rooster
Note (Jody Gray): Some interesting information I ran into while researching the Cockburn Surname (Anne Reid Wait, named a son Robert Cockburn Gray after her grandfather Robert Cockburn; Anne’s brother’s name was John Wait, possibly he was named after John Cockburn?) There is a William Ormiston Hendry 1805-1899, son of Thomas and Euphremia (Graham) Hendry. All these surnames are connected to Scotland and/or the Ulster-Scots (Plantation in Northern Ireland). Note, John Cockburn was one of the Protestant supporters of the Scottish Reformation.
John Cockburn (d. 1583) laird of Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland. He was usually called “Ormiston”.
The Ormiston branch of the Cockburn family stems from the marriage in 1370 of John Cokburne, second son of Sir Alexander de Cokburne, to Johanetta de Lyndessay, an heiress who owned the estate of Ormiston in East Lothian. John Cockburn of Ormiston and his brother Ninian Cockburn were Protestant supporters of the Scottish Reformation and came to support the English cause in 1548 during the war of the Rough Wooing. John Cockburn of Ormiston was another enthusiastic proponent for the modernization of Scottish agricultural practice. The financial consequences of his plans were as ruinous to the Ormiston branch of the Cockburns as they were to the Langton branch. He attempted to demonstrate the benefits of his reforms in a model community at Ormiston. His ambitious schemes ran into financial difficulties and he was required to sell the estate of Ormiston in 1747 to John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun.
Connection to King Edward VI: For his services to the Protestant cause, on 3/13/1552, Edward VI rewarded John Cockburn with the lands and income belonging to the Hospital in Durham known as the Kepier Hospital.
Children: Alexander; John; Samuel; Sybil; Barbara m: George Hamilton, son of David Hamilton.
John Cockburn: Scottish (Protestant) Reformation. Book: The house of Cockburn of that ilk and the cadets thereof by Thomas H Cockburn-Hood; published 1883 in Edinburgh, Scotland https://archive.org/stream/houseofcockburno00cockuoft#page/n13/mode/2up
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Dearborn, Michigan Map 1860
R. Cockburn, (left) straight across from J. Gray
I’ve found no Wait on the Map
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