(Jody Gray) Research results for the Cockburn Surname. And, prominent Cockburns e.g. Wikipedia Pages.
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Surname variations: de Quokebron, Cokbron, Cobron, Cokburn,
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Is of early medieval Scottish origin, a territorial name from the lands so named in Merse, Berwickshire.
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Piers de Cockburn [I. Piers de Cokburn] b. abt 1190. Son, Robert de Cockburn of that Ilk and Henderland (b. abt 1210, possibly Scotland) knighted by King Alexander III).
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The principal family of the name are the Cockburns of Langton. Their immediate ancestor, Sir Alexander de Cockburn, obtained the barony of Carriden, in Linlithgowshire, from David II, King of Scots in 1358, which barony had been forfeited to the crown, by what in the law of Scotland is denominated recognition, or a vassal disposing of his property without the consent of his superior… Robert the 2nd hereditary ostiarius parliament an office annexed to the barony of Langton, by charter of James IV 2/20/1504.
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Surname first found in Roxburghshire in the lands of Merse. One of the first recorded instances of the name was during the reign of William the Lion (1165-1214) when a Cukoueburn was listed in the area of Clifton, Roxburghshire. Peter de Cokburne witness a grant in 1220. Earliest records of a Clan crest 1296 shown as the seal of Peres (Piers) de Cokeburne. Sir Alexander was killed at the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. In 1390, his grandson Alexander was appointed Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland. [I. Piers de Cokburn]
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The Great Migration. Early North American immigration records.
Edward PA 1820. J.P. CA 1850.
-did the name Piers evolve into Peter? House of Cockburn, ‘Pedigree’ begins with, [I. Piers de Cokburn]. This entry for the Cockburn crest has Peter de Cokburne, Peres de Cokeburne.
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Surname distribution in Scotland: most commonly found in The Scottish Borders (Berwickshire, Peeblesshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire and part of Midlothian), Edinburgh City and the Lothians (Linlithgowshire, Edinburghshire, Haddingtonshire)
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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cockburn_of_Ormiston John Cockburn of Ormiston, d. 1583, Lord of Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland, was an early supporter of the Scottish Reformation. Eldest son of William Cockburn of Ormiston and Janet Somerville.
John Knox was tutor to one of his sons, and the Protestant preacher and martyr George was arrested by James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, the Sheriff of Haddingtonshire, at his House of Ormiston 1/16/1546. On the same night, soldiers of the Governor of Scotland, Regent Arran, arrived to arrest John… he escaped…
John, and his younger brother Ninian Cockburn were among those accused of the murder of Cardinal David Beaton in 1546… Loyal to Edward VI of England in 1547… 3/25/1548, The English Privy Council gave him 65 lbs as the King’s reward for the losses in Scotland -and sent John a letter reassuring him of his goodwill on March 1550, as peace was declared between Scotland and England. 3/13/1552, for services to the Protestant cause, Edward VI rewarded John Cockburn with the lands and income belonging to the Hospital of St Giles in Durham…
He was arrested in April 1555… (later) pardoned…
Son, Alexander Cockburn 6/13/1536-9/1/1563
(Jody Gray) the following excerpt is from House of Cockburn, Genealogy Book -from a Scottish historian -in places it is impossible, for me, to translate. .
Beaton, Cardinal 128-131, 187, 267.
(pg 202) pg begins Oct. 1642... (pg 200) VIII. John Cockburn of Ormiston, who was a man who at all events had the courage of his opinions, and possessed the fire and determination of his race, thought to crush the powerful foe of John Knox when he guided the destroying army into the heart of his country, and quieted his conscience by the belief, it is to be presumed, that he was advancing the cause of true religion. No proceedings were too violent, no excesses too outrageous for the hot-headed enthusiasts who refused to be guided by the advice of wise and prudence men such as Lethington, Sir David Lindsay, or John Spottiswood, afterwards parson of Calder. Cardinal Beaton, who was one of the ablest statesmen of the day, would probably not have brought Wischart to the stake had it not seemed to him necessary to take the strongest measures against what he regarded as the seditious teaching, as well as audacious heresy of Knox and his associates. No one, however, even under all the overlooked circumstances, would attempt to palliate the cruel ferocity of that execution any more than the murder of the Archbishop in revenge.
(pg 129) It was upon a day early in February 1546 that George Wischart had preached his last sermon in Haddington, and next morning, bidding those of his acquaintance farewell as if forever, he went on foot to Ormiston… accompanied by the Laird of that place, John Sandilands of Calder, and Creichton of Brunstoun. John Knox was desirous to have gone with him, but he willed him to go back, saving one was enough at this time for a sacrifice… About midnight the house was belayed with horsemen that the governor sent to take him prisoner. The Laird refusing to deliver him, thinking to get him shifted, came, and he required that he should be put into his hand, declaring to Wischart, “I shall not only preserve your body from violence if any be intended against you, but I will promise you on my honour in the presence of these gentlemen that neither the Governor nor the Cardinal shall be able to harm you, and that I shall keep you in my own power till I either make you free, or bring you back to the place where I now receive you.” Upon this promise he was delivered by Ormiston into the Earl’s hands, who took him straight to Elphinston, where the Cardinal was attending the successe, who immediately sent to apprehend Ormiston, Calder, and Brunston. The latter, if not as thoroughly bad and treacherous a man as he is represented by Mr. Tytler to have been, was at best one of the very dubious characters of whom there were too many in those melancholy times. The men were not few in number who, under the guise of religious reformers, sought to gratify personal ambition and private revenge, and still more anxiously to grasp some of the spoils of the church. There were but very few of its dignitaries who espoused the doctrines of the Reformation, but one or two did so, and did not disdain to share in the plunder, to get themselves made commendators of the religious houses of which they had been abbots, and, ruthlessly turning the monks out to starve, secure the broad lands belonging to their abbeys for their descendants. Brunston had been Cardinal Beaton’s confidential servant, but there is much reason for believing that he carried on a secret correspondence with Henry VIII., and offered to procure the Cardinal’s assassination. On this occasion, had he fallen into his hands, it would probably have gone hard with him, but he managed to conceal himself in a thick wood. Young Cockburn and Sandilands were taken, and committed prisoners to Edinburgh Castle, from which, however, they were fortunate enough to make their escape. Few days passed ere the well-known tragedy was enacted in the courtyard of St. Andrews, where Wishart, a man of “primitive sanctity” and of ancient lineage, ended his day in that fearful manner under the eyes of his persecutor. “A barbarous part it was in him,” says Archbishop Spottiswood, “to sit and behold the martyrdom, taking pleasure in that which no man could look on without pity.”
On the 28th May following, on that very balcony which had been “hanged with tapestry and rich cushions laid for ease of the Cardinal and Prelates who were to behold the spectacle of Wishart’s death, lay the body of Beaton, hacked with swords.” Of this murder John Knox wrote quite jubilantly, terming it “a godly fact.” This expression may be fitly taken as an evidence of the state of men’s minds at this time, actuated in many instances by thirst for private revenge, and a false zeal for religion, which seems to have been unfortunately characteristic of both parties. John Knox approved of putting Papists to death by fire. Cardinal Beaton had, as he proved, arrived at the same conclusion as to the best method of dealing with heretics, and so burned George Wishart. The idea of religious toleration had not entered men’s minds. The large-hearted, amiable Queen of Scots was the first person to whom the idea, so far in advance of the time which she lived, presented itself. John Knox says himself “that the brethren having determined to put to their own hands to punish for example to other. Mary, fearing for the lives of her subjects, sent for him, and travailled constantly with him for two hours that he would be the instrument to persuade the people, and principality the gentlemen of the west, not to put hands to punish any man for the using of themselves in their religion as pleased them.” For the fierce fanatics of the General Assembly of the Kirk had the audacity to demand “that all Papistical idolatry be universally suppressed and abolished throughout this realme, not only in the subjects, but also in the Queen’s own person, with punishment against all persons that should be depredit to transgress and offend in the same.” When lying at Jedburgh, supposing herself on her deathbed, “the declaration of the will of the most mighty and virtuous Princess Mary, Queen of Scotland, Dowager of France, during the time of her extreme maladie, with the prayers and exhortations used by her, was recorded as addressed to the nobles present.” One of her injunctions to them ran thus -”Ye know also, my Lords, the favour that I have born onto ye since my arriving in this realm ... of thee that profess the religion by your conscience; I pray ye also on your part not to press them that make profession of the old faith Catholic… “
The family of Cockburn of Ormiston and the old hall of Ormiston come to be mentioned on various occasions in these times. From its doors went the brave Wishart to his terrible death; and in consequence of a letter said to have been found there, another unfortunate victim of frenzied bigotry, or perhaps private animosity, was betrayed to his doom.
One of the most atrocious of the many judicial murders was that of Sir John Melvill of Raith, at the instigation, it is said, of “this dreadful Archbishop of St. Andrews, Arran’s brother, who after the King's death ran headlong into all kinds of vice, and his lands given to David Hamilton, the Governor’s younger son, made the punishment more filthy.” He was an old gentleman and most loyal, but nevertheless did the unfortunate “Lord of Raith most innocently suffer, and was for faulted because that writ a bill to his son John Melvin, who was then in England, which was alleged to have been found in the house of Ormiston. But many suspect a prank and craft of one Rinzean Cokburn, now since called Captain Rinzean, to whom the letter was delivered… and the head of the gentleman was stricken from him in the year 1549.”
It is to be hoped that the insinuation that Ninian or Rinzean Cockburn acted treacherously on this occasion is a mistake, but appearances are much against him, and he seems to have been a very questionable character, addicted to dangerous practical jokes. He was in the Scots Guards, and at best was an unworthy representative of the family, many of whose scions had during the centuries always filled their positions with honour in that force, of which it is recorded “that for so long a time as they have served in France never hath been one of them found that hath committed any fault against the Kings of their State.” It appears that he was frequently on leave, and sent on various missions to Scotland, managing to get well paid for his services… It is to be feared that anything entrusted to Captain Ringan, bearing upon the welfare of the Queen of Scots, was in very unsafe hands…
John Cockburn and Alison Sandilands, his wife, had joint charter, 2/5/1545, of Lemanis of Ormiston, with the old hall of Ormiston lying to the south of the mansion which had been settled upon his wife at their marriage. This settlement was of little avail, for very soon afterward his estates were all forfeited. On 2/2/1548 the infant Queen of Scots, then 6 yrs old, was made to say that she, having learned of the great services done by Sir Walter Scott of Branxholme in her father’s reign in defending the kingdom against the English, granted to him and his wife, the Lady Janet Betoun, the tower, fortalice, and manor of Ormiston, with its gardens, etc. in the Queen’s hands, by reason of the forfeiture of John Cockborn, formerly Lord of Ormiston, for treason and other crimes imputed to him. His lands of Craik were also given to Sir Walter and the Lady Joneta Betoun on the same day… On 9/26/1549, Arran bestowed the gift of the escheat of John Cockburn of Ormiston upon his brother James Hamilton. In 1559 the forfeited Laird went to Berwick, as envoy for the confederate Lords, to confer with… to try and get a supply of money for their immediate requirements. The workmen had gone off from the mint, taking with them the dies and other necessaries for coining the plate and jewelry which the rebel Lords had collected and melted down, and so were in great straits in consequence. On his way back he fell into an ambush laid by Bothwell, and was wounded and made a prisoner, thus losing the four thousand crowns he had managed to borrow.
When Mary after the battle of Langside trusted herself to the faith of her dearest sister and cousin Elizabeth, things were all right again with John Cockburn, and Ormiston received its hereditary Lord. The lands of East Craik had got into the possession of the Earl of Bothwell and in consequence of his forfeiture fell to the Crown, and new charter of them was given to John Cockburn 3/10/1574. He then sold this estate to Sir Walter Scott of Howpasley. (left off, pg 210)
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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cockburn_(Scottish_officer) John Cockburn (ca 1620-1680) 17th century Scottish Govenor of Stirling Castle and Hume Castle. -was an officer in the Scottish Covenater army in the late 1640s and early 1650s during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. In this capacity he led Lowland soldiers against Montrose’s Scottish Royalist forces during the First English Civil War (1642-1646), when the Covenanter parliament of Scotland was allied with the English Parliamentarians against King Charles I. Colonel Cockburn led the colorfully defiant but futile Scottish resistance at Hume Castle during the Third English Civil War (1649-1651), when a Parliamentary army led by Oliver Cromwell invaded Scotland after its Covenanter government had made an uneasy alliance with King Charles II.
Family background and the choice of a military career. John Cockburn was born in about 1620, the third son of William Cockburn of Choicelee and Sybilla Sinclair. A military career would have been a common choice for a son who stood little chance of inheriting is father’s property. Quite possibly Cockburn fought as a mercenary in the 30 Years War along with thousands of other Scotsmen. Many Scottish officers, such as Leven, David Leslie, James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton and William Baillie, gained military experience and a strong reputation in the army of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. Thus a body of experienced Scottish soldiers became available to the Parliament of Scotland during the Bishops’ Wars (1639-40). And during the First English Civil War.
Military service during the campaign against Montrose’s Royalist army. The Scottish Parliament, dominated by the Covenanters, was a powerful ally of the English Parliament when armed conflict erupted in 1642 between it and the Royalist forces of King Charles I…
At the Battle of Inverlochy 2/2/1645, Lieutenant-Colonel John Cockburn, of the Earl of Moray’s Regiment, led a battalion of 200 Lowland militiamen that formed the left wing of the Covenanter army that was commanded nominally by Archibald Campbell, the 8th Earl of Argyll and the chief of the Clan Campbell… [they] suffered a crushing defeat following an aggressive pre-dawn charge by the Scottish Royalists and their Irish allies. The fighting degenerated into a massacre, fueled by the years of bitter conflict between Clan Donald with its allies (e.g., Clan Maclean), the sources of the Highland contingent in Montrose’s army, against Argyll’s Clan Campbell, which provided the Highland component of the Covenanter army along with a small number of Lowland officers, Cockburn retreated to the relative safety of nearby Inverlochy Castle; outside the walls of the survivors of the Covenanter army were pursued ruthlessly and killed. The besieged officers surrendered soon afterwards to Montrose (a former Covenanter turned Royalist) when they were given quarter in exchange for their parole that they would not oppose him later.
Service as Governor of Stirling Castle and at the Siege of Newark. On 7/8/1645 Lieutenant Colonel Cockburn was governor of Stirling Castle when the Scottish royal regalia were exhibited there at the opening of a new session of the Scottish Parliament. Parliament had left Edinburgh to escape a major outbreak of plague in the capital. It was a critical time during the Scottish Civil War: three weeks after the Royalist disaster in England at the Battle of Naseby (June 14), six days after the Scottish Royalist victory at the Battle of Alford (July 2), and five weeks before the Battle of Kilsyth (August 15) when Montrose appeared to have carried Scotland for the king. The threat posed by Montrose’s army was effectively ended by Lieutenant-General Leslie’s calvary-based force at the Battle of Philiphaugh on September 13.
On 1/17/1646, Cockburn commanded the College of Justice Horse Troop at the siege of Newark, within the Scottish Army of the Solemn League and Covenant led by David Leslie. On May 5 King Charles surrendered himself to the Scottish besieging army at Newark. By delivering himself to the Scots the king was likely trying to produce a split between the Scottish Covenanters and the English Parliamentarians. However, on May 6 the king was required by Leslie to order the surrender of the Royalists garrison at Newark. This was one of the final chapters of the First English Civil War.
Marriage and first retirement. On 1/14/1647 Colonel Cockburn married his cousin Helen Cockburn, the eldest daughter and heiress to William Cockburn of Caldra. The lands of his father-in-law (a staunch Scottish Royalist) were made over to him in 1648, shortly after he retired as governor of Stirling Castle. It is unlikely that Colonel Cockburn was involved in the ill-fated Scottish Engager-instigated campaign in 1648 in support of the restoration of Charles I during the Second English Civil War (1648-1649)... He would thus have avoided the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Preston of the Scottish army led by James Hamilton.
On 3/15/1649, just six weeks after the execution of Charles I in London, the Scottish Parliament passed an act in favor of Colonel Cockburn, the former governor of Stirling Castle… The act of 1649 confirms that Cockburn’s paid service in the Scottish army began no later than 8/1/1644. It further confirms that he was governor of Stirling Castle from 4/1/1645 until 7/1/1647.
The defence of Hume Castle at the time of Cromwell’s invasion of Scotland. Colonel Cockburn returned to the service of Scotland during the Third English Civil War, when the Covenanter-controlled Parliament of Scotland entered into an alliance with Charles II under the terms of the Treaty of Breda, signed on 5/1/1650. Cromwell responded by leading a Parliamentary army in an invasion of Scotland. The Covenanter army, led by David Leslie, was soundly defeated at the Battle of Dunbar on 9/3/1650. Parliamentary forces were then dispatched around the country to reduce the strongholds that were holding out. In February 1651, Cockburn commanded the garrison of Hume Castle when it was besieged by a Parliamentary force led by Colonel Fenwick. (Hume Castle was only 12.75 km southwest of Cockburn’s seat at Caldra.) At the start of the siege, when called upon to surrender, Cockburn is reported to have replied “I know not Cromwell. And as to my castle, it stands upon a rock!” ..
However, once the resumed bombardment had breached the castle walls and rendered the castle’s defence hopeless, Cockburn surrendered the castle with quarter given for its defenders. Having given his parole to the Parliamentarians, Cockburn would have missed the final disaster that met David Leslie’s army at the Battle of Worcester on 9/3/1651.
Death and the succession of his eldest son as laird of Caldra. He is believed to have died in about 1680, his wife having died before him in March 1668. He was succeeded as laird of Caldra by his eldest surviving son William Cockburn.
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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Cockburn,_Lord_Ormiston Adam Cockburn, Lord Ormiston (1656-4/16/1735), was a Scottish administrator, politician and judge. He served as Commissioner for Haddington Constabulary in the parliaments of 1681-2 and 1689, and in the conventions of 1678 and 1689. He was appointed Lord Justice Clerk on 11/28/1692. He served as a member of the Privy Council, Treasurer Depute from 1699 until the Accession of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Lord Justice Clerk for a second term (1705-10), and a Lord of Session from 1705.
Career. Adam was retoured heir to his brother John in the family’s ancient estate of Ormiston, East Lothian, 12/28/1671. Sasine of the estates followed on 6/12/1672 on a Precept from Chancery. He was Commissioner for Haddington at the Conventions of Estates in the years 1678, 1681, and 1689, and in Parliament of Scotland for the year 1690. Nominated one of the Commissioners to treat on the Union of Parliaments, 4/19/1689. Appointed Lord Justice Clerk in place of Sir George Campbell of Cessnock on 11/28/1692 and at about the same time was sworn a Privy Councillor.
He was one of the Commissioners named to inquire into the Massacre of Glencoe on 5/28/1695, and became somewhat unpopular in some quarters because of the powers awarded to his position in order for him to reach conclusions in the matter. On 2/6/1699 he succeeded Lord Raith as Treasurer-depute of Scotland, which he retained until the accession of Queen Anne, when he was dismissed from all his offices.
He obtained a commission appointing him a second time Lord Justice Clerk dated 1/8/1705 and was at the same time appointed to succeed Lord Whitelaw as a Lord Ordinary [any judge in the Outer House of the Scottish Court of Session] in the Court of Session. He left the office of Lord Justice Clerk again in 1710 but retained his place as a Lord Ordinary until his death, 4/16/1735 (age 79).
Family. He married (1) Susanna (born 7/20/1657, Tyninghame), daughter of John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Haddington. They had several children, of whom notably the MP John Cockburn of Ormiston. Two of his daughters married baronets. He married (2) Anne (died 1721) daughter of Sir Patrick Houstoun, 1st Baronet. They had a daughter, Jean (1709-1792 Kelso, Scotland) who married William Walker.
*See House of Cockburn, Index, 154… Lady Susannah his wife, 155
Anne, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland 1702. Queen of Great Britain and Ireland 1707-1714 -under the Acts of Union, England and Scotland became known as Great Britain.
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Glencoe Massacre of Glencoe 2/13/1692, in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution and the Jacobite uprising of 1689 led by John Graham of Claverhouse, a massacre took place in Glen Coe, in the Highlands of Scotland. It began simultaneously in three settlements along the glen -Invercoe, Inverrigan, and Achnacon -although the killing took place all over the glen as fleeing MacDonalds were pursued. Thirty-eight MacDonalds from the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed by the guests who had accepted their hospitality, on the grounds that the MacDonalds had not been prompt in pledging allegiance to the new monarchs, William III and Mary II (King and Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland 1689-1702). Another forty women and children died of exposure after their homes were burned.
*Copy of order to Capt. Campbell by Major Duncanson.
You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebells, the McDonalds of Glenco, and put all to the sword under seventy. you are to have a speciall care that the old Fox and his sones doe upon no account escape your hands, you are to secure all the avenues that no man escape. This you are to putt in execution att fyve of the clock precisely; and by that time, or very shortly after it, I’ll strive to be att you with a stronger party: if I doe not come to you att fyve, you are not to tarry for me, but to fall on. This is by the Kings speciall command, for the good and safety of the Country, that these miscreants be cutt off root and branch (extinction of the family). See that this be putt in execution without feud or favour, else you may expect to be dealt with as one not true to King nor Government, nor a man fitt to carry Commissione in the Kings service. Expecting you will not faill in the full-filling hereof, as you love your selfe, I subscribe these with my hand att Balicholis Feb: 12, 1692. -For their Majesties service.
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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cockburn_(Scottish_politician) XV. John Cockburn (Scottish politician) of Ormiston, East Lothian, d 11/12/1758, son of Adam Cockburn of Ormiston, Lord Justice Clerk. (see, entry, above).
John became a member of the Scottish parliament and took an active interest in accomplishing the union. He was the first representative of East Lothian in the parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and continued to hold that seat in all successive parliaments, til 1741 and as one of the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty.
This last Cockburn of Ormiston was an enthusiastic entrepreneur and eventually ruined himself. His estates were sold to the Earl of Hopetoun. He died in his son’s house in the Navy Office, London, England. He had married Beatrix, daughter of John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford, by whom he had no issue. His natural son, George Cockburne (see, entry below). John Cockburn is also known as the father of Scottish husbandry.
*See House of Cockburn, Index, 141. *his wikipedia page, refer, page 156.
(Jody Gray) I did a Google Search, John Cockburn father of Scottish husbandry -many ‘Results’. (The Edinburgh magazine, pub. 1795) we are warranted to pronounce his The Father of Scottish Husbandry, an ornament to his country, and an honor to the county of East Lothian that gave him birth… the man who laid the foundation of the rural economy… The name of John Cockburn will always be mentioned with reverence by every farmer…
*https://books.google. *Who Made the Scottish Enlightenment? By Colin Russell. Pub 2014. -mention of John Cockburn is preceded by historical dates/events. 1780: The Scottish Famine. 1784: Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland Promoted agriculture, education, Gaelic, music, and poetry. 1798: Essays by the Rev. Thomas Malthus -argues that famine and disease are nature’s way of checking population growth. 1815: Scottish Potato Famine -by 1852, 1.7 million people had emigrated. 1846: Importation Act -repeal of the ‘Corn Laws’ broke the power associated with land ownership. 1865: Mendel publishes on Genetics -’Experiments on Plant Hybridization’ would eventually unlock the door to modern farming.
In reaching conclusions on the effects of all this… the tradition of peasant farming gave way to the market. Larger farms and enclosures have been held to have impacted upon productivity and reshaped rural social relations… what remains critical is the changes in tenure and farm structure.
A different approach holds that the efficacy of enclosures has been exaggerated and related to the propaganda of the improvers… growth did not resume until the early 19th century… In Scotland, enclosure legislation had been gradual… Yet the facts remain, bigger farms were ultimately created out of smaller units, and in turn, this contributed to the Scottish Diaspora or flight to the new urban centres (e.g. son of a bankrupt tenant farmer forced to seek employment as a shepherd).
Into this untidy explanation, the improvers are now placed… 1729, publication, William MacKintosh An Essay on Ways and Means for Inclosing, Fallowing, Planting etc. ...James Hutton, experiments in the control of pests, diseases, and breeding… John Cockburn, sometimes called the father of Scottish husbandry, who used the long lease as an encouragement to his tenants, ensured they planted the right kind of crops, brought in complementary industries such as linen from the flax, beer and whisky from the barleycorn, and even rebuilt the village of Ormiston to scarcely imaginable standards… Archibald Grant was transforming his pastures, from the bleakest of moor lands to woodland, gardens, enclosed fields that had been cleared, drained, and limed and been planted with corn.
Good though these improvements can be seen to be, they were attended by strife and misery… The displaced formed a first wave to places such as America, or sought to sabotage the new methods. This was the response of the levellers who undoubtedly slowed progress until Lord Kames dug up the peat on the moss of Kincardine and published The Gentleman Farmer in 1776… by 1815, the process was all but complete with up to one quarter of the country’s land mass now devoted to farming… the first group of improvers were the landowners, and the Highland Clearances rested on the claim of progress and improvement. The humble sheep rose to prominence as finance was available for supporting infrastructure resulting in the Highland Clearances of the 18th and 19th centuries. Scots law held little for the tenants, and the demise of the clan system after the Jacobite Rebellion and the repeal of the Heritable Jurisdiction Act had allowed the like of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland to see past the old reciprocal relationships and to marginalise crofters and kelp workers to near destitution. Protests such as at Strathrusdale in 1792, the so-called year of the sheep, caused Dundas to mobilise the Black Watch. The callousness was astonishing…
http://www.johngraycentre.org/people/movers_shaker/john-cockburn/ John Gray Centre. People, movers and shakers -John Cockburn.
John Cockburn 1695-1758. Was the son of Adam Cockburn, Lord Justice Clerk and a commissioner in the Scots Parliament, and Susanna Hamilton, daughter of John, 4th earl of Haddington. The young John followed his father into politics and also served in the Scots Parliament, where he became one of the strongest supporters of union with England. After that Act was accomplished he seamlessly became the MP for Haddingtonshire in the first Union Parliament (1707) and he served until 1741.
During his tenure in England John became increasingly aware of the poor state of Scottish agriculture and set out to improve matters. He led by example.
He had inherited his ancestral estate of Ormiston in 1714 and, noticing the difficulty in even setting the land to lease, examined the causes. John found that Scottish farm were actively discouraged from attempting to increase productivity or improve their farms by the terms under which the land was let. Short leases were the problem. It meant that there was no incentive for a tenant to invest - the chance was that others would gain. Similarly, landowners were equally reluctant to invest as even they did not have the capital to lay out. The Scottish economy had long been living on a wing and a prayer and the disastrous Darien Venture had destroyed the little reserve that had been available. Many estates were mortgaged to the hilt (and beyond) and struggled to even pay interest due.
At Ormiston village, there were 10 tenant farmers and their staff (cottars). But their farms were held in rundale or runrig -arable strips close to the village, divided by lot. The tenants pooled their cattle which were daily driven out to graze in the rough beyond the arable part. The rigs they held were chosen by lot, annually. No-one would risk innovation as they could not anticipate benefiting themselves.
The first stage of the improvement initiated by Cockburn was to abolish the old system and the lands (were) divided into proper sized farms, each having a steading built in convenient situation. ...enclosing by ditch and hedge, with trees on the bank, was instantly set about; and, that those enclosures were, the first in Scotland… This process had been tested by John’s father. In 1698 Adam granted Robert Wright a lease of 11 years of the new model farm (at the time few tenants would commit to as many as 5 years). Wright’s lease was extended in 1713 for a further 9 years. John’s first significant act after taking over the reins of the estate was to offer the Wrights a 38 year lease agreeable to the plan for promoting real and substantial improvements… The long lease meant that the tenant could invest and in later years recover his costs -and more. In reaping the benefits, the Wrights became John’s local advocates amongst the farming community.
With long leases and regular discrete fields instituted, John then addressed the question of cropping and the importance of fallow within a systematic rotation. By including clover with grass and manure from grazing animals the next year yields of wheat thereafter were improved. The Ormiston system included turnips from seed, which provided fodder in field for over-wintering sheep -leading to additional manuring and improved stock. More profits for the tenant; higher rents for the landholder.
In the 1720s, John took the process further. Maltings, a brewery and a distillery were built in Ormiston.. (he) next invested further manufactures… Aid for this stage, came from the Board of Manufacturers in Scotland (forerunner of the British Linen Bank).
Finally, 1736, he started the Ormiston Society, which brought together owners and tenants… The full list of members is given in Memoirs of John Cockburn, published in the Farmers Magazine of 1804…
However, as the pioneer, John spend more than could be afforded. He died in debt, in 1858, having sold Ormiston to the earl of Hopetoun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cockburne *(son of John Cockburn, entry, above) Captain George Cockburne (died 1770) was a naval administrator who went on to be Comptroller of the Navy -he was promoted to Captain in 1765. In 1770, while still comptroller, he stood unsuccessfully in the Scarborough by-election with support from the Marquess of Granby. He married Caroline, daughter of George Forrester, 5th Lord Forrester, with female issue.
Note: Comptroller of the Navy, mainly responsible for all British naval spending and directing the business of the Navy Board from 1660 as its chairman. The position was abolished in 1832 when the Navy Board was merged into the Board of Admiralty.
Note: References, link to The royal navy: a history from the earliest times to the present.
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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_James_Cockburn,_8th_Baronet XXI. Sir James, 8th Baronet, Member of the Parliament of Great Britain for Linlithgow Burghs from 1772 to 1784.
Family. He was the son of William Cockburn and his wife and cousin Francis Cockburn. His paternal grandparents were Sir Alexander Cockburn, 6th Baronet (no wikipedia page) and his wife Mary Ancrum. His maternal grandfather was D. James Cockburn of Jamaica. Alexander and Dr. James Cockburn were brothers -both sons of Sir Archibald Cockburn, 4th Baronet (no wikipedia page) and his wife Marion Sinclair -daughter of John Sinclair and Isabel Boyd. Her paternal grandfather was Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet (d. 1649) and his wife Marion McCath.
Baronet. His paternal grandfather Sir Alexander Cockburn, 6th Baronet died May 1739. Having survived his oldest son Archibald Cockburn, Alexander was succeeded by the eldest son of Archibald as Sir Alexander Cockburn, 7th Baronet (no wikipedia page).
Marriage and children. 1755 James married his first wife Mary Douglas, daughter of Henry Douglas of Friarshaw. They had 3 daughters: Frances, Harriet Jane, Mary.
10/10/1769 he married his second wife Augusta Anne Ayscough, daughter of Francis Ayscough, Dean of Bristol and Royal tutor. They had six children:
Sir James Cockburn, 9th Baronet (wikipedia: m: Marianna Devereux, daughter of George Devereux, 13th Viscount Hereford. He served as Inspector-General of the Royal Marines, granted the rank of major-general in 1831; appointed High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire for 1847).
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet (1772-1853, MP, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord. (see, following entry)
Sir William Cockburn, 11th Baronet (1773-1858), Dean of York, married Elizabeth (died 1828), daughter of Sir Robert Peel. (see, entry below)
Alexander Cockburn (1776-1852) (no wikipedia page) served as British envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Wurttemberg and the Columbia District. m: Yolande de Vignier, daughter of the Vicomte de Vignier and parented: Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12 Baronet, Lord Chief Justice of England (see, entry below)
Sir Francis Cockburn (1780-1868) (see, entry below)
Anna Augusta Cockburn m: Charles Hawkins, Rector of Kelston and Prebendary of York.
*Index, Sir James Cockburn, 8th Baronet, pg 102
Portrait, Augusta Anne Ayscough Cockburn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Cockburn_and_Her_Three_Eldest_Sons Augusta Anne Ayscough Cockburn -the marriage was made as the result of a large marriage settlement of twenty thousand pounds which was arranged by her maternal uncle…
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*https://en.wikipedia. Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet (1772-1853) was a Royal Navy officer. As a captain he was present at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in February 1797 during the French Revolutionary Wars and commanded the naval support at the reduction of Martinique in February 1809 during the Napoleonic Wars.
Naval career. He was educated at the Royal Navigational School and joined the Royal Navy March 1781… (follows his advancement)... promoted to captain 2/10/1794… promoted to rear admiral 8/12/1812… reassigned in November 1812 to the North American Station, where he played a major role in the War of 1812 as second-in-command to Admiral Sir John Warren… he cruised relentlessly up and down the Chesapeake Bay and other parts of the Atlantic coast in 1813 and 1814, seizing American shipping, disrupting commerce, and raiding the ports. The most important of Cockburn’s actions was the capture and burning of Washington (D.C.) on 8/24/1814, undertaken as an advisor to Major General Robert Ross… In August 1815, he was given the job of conveying Napoleon I in the third-rate HMS Northumberland to Saint Helena. He remained there for some months as governor of the island and Commander-in-Chief of the Cape of Good Hope Station… 8/12/1819 promoted to vice-admiral.
Political career. Entering politics, Cockburn was elected Tory Member of Parliament for Portsmouth at the 1818 general election and was appointed a Junior Naval Lord in the Liverpool ministry in April 1818. He became Tory Member of Parliament for Weobly at the 1820 general election and, having become Major-General of the Royal Marine Forces 4/5/1821 and a member of the Privy Council 4/20/1827, he was elected Tory Member of Parliament for Plymouth at a by-election on June 1828… Cockburn was elevated to First Naval Lord in the Wellington ministry in September 1828 and in that capacity sought to improve the standards of gunnery in the fleet… He resigned when the Government fell from power in November 1830, but remained active in Parliamentary affairs… After losing his seat in Parliament (1832) he returned to sea and became Commander-in-Chief of the North America and West Indies Station… became Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom 8/10/1847 and was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 7/1/1851. He inherited the family baronetcy from his elder brother in February 1852 and died at Leamington Spa 8/19/1853 -buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. Cockburn Sound in Western Australia was named after him by Captain James Stirling.
Family. In 1809 he married his cousin Mary Cockburn. They had one surviving daughter, Augusta Harriot Mary Cockburn (d. 1869), who married Captain John Cochrane Hoseason. Cockburn’s distant cousins are writer Alexander Cockburn (1941-2012) and actress Olivia Wilde. (see, entry below)
2nd son of Sir James Cockburn, 8th Baronet. (1729-1804) -see, above… was a Member of the Parliament of Great Britain for Linlithgow Burghs from 1772 to 1784. His paternal grandparents were Sir Alexander Cockburn, 6th Baronet and his wife Mary Ancrum (no wikipedia page)… Son of Sir Archibald Cockburn, 4th Baronet and Marion Sinclair. (no wikipedia page)
m1: Mary Douglas. Children: Frances. Harrier. Mary. m2: Augusta Anne Ayscough. Children: Sir James. Sir George. Sir William. Sir Alexander. Sir Francis. Anna.
Find a Grave, memorial page -family links, only his wife. Buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, Greater London, England.
He has a geni.com page… ancestry, of Langton, Berwickshire.
*Index, XXII. Admiral Sir George, G.C.B., ninth Baronet, 109
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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Cockburn,_11th_Baronet *Sir William Cockburn, 11th Baronet (1773-1858), Dean of York, married Elizabeth (died 1828), daughter of Sir Robert Peel.
Biography. In 1853 he was made baronet after the death of his brother, George (see, above entry). In 1805 married Elizabeth Peel (d. 1828), sister of Robert Peel. They had three sons: James d. 1845, age 38. Robert d. 1850, age 42. George d. 1850, age 37. In 1830 he married Margaret Pearce, daughter of Colonel Pearce, they had no children.
Educated at Charterhouse School and St John’s College, Cambridge, graduating as twelfth wrangler [honors in the 3rd year undergraduate degree in mathematics] in 1795 and receiving his MA in 1798 and DD in 1823. A fellow of St John’s 1796-1806, he was the first Christian Advocate of Cambridge University 1803-1810 -also a vocal scriptural geologist [evangelicals who claimed “the primacy of literalistic biblical exegesis”].
William Cockburn was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1800 and as priest the following year. 1822, Duke of York, the chief place of authority and dignity in the Cathedral -held the position until his death in 1858. From 1832 onwards, also rector of Kelston, Somerset, near Bristol. Died, age 84, in Kelston 4/30/1858.
Accused and acquitted of simony. In 1829 a fanatical Methodist set fire to the Minister causing considerable damage. As Dean, Cockburn was responsible to manage the repairs, which he did not do well. A second, accidental fire in 1840 again caused massive damage. Conflicts over the restoration work and Cockburn’s unwise financial management finally reaching a boiling point in 1841, when a York prebendary accused Cockburn of simony. Cockburn was foolishly frank, muddled his accounts, used repair funds for non-repair purposes, was intolerable to clear-thinking accounts and made too many independent decisions. Eventually, litigation involving the Archbishop of York led to a judgment deposing Cockburn from the Deanery. Cockbutn appealed to the court of the Queen’s Bench, which ruled… in favour of Cockburn…
Modern critics. Historian Gillespie describes even “reasonably respectable” Cockburn’s views as clerical “fulminations against science in general and all its works”, and listed his works as among “clerical attacks on geology and uninformed attempts to frame theoretical systems reconciling the geological and scriptural records.”
Written works: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n87-912278/ (World Cat) Cockburn, W. (William) 1773-1858. Most widely held works by W Cockburn. Commercial economy, or, The evils of metallic currency… The creation of the world (dedicated to the Geological Society)... A letter to Professor Buckland, concerning the origin of the world... The Bible defended against the British Association… An address to Methodists: and to all other honest Christians who conscientiously secede from the Church of England… A new system of geology… A sermon on the evils of education without a religious basis, preached in York Minster, 9/29/1844… Letter the Third -on the Origin of the World…
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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Alexander_Cockburn,_12th_Baronet Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12 Baronet, Lord Chief Justice of England. B. 9/24/1802 d. 11/28/1880.
was a Scottish jurist and politician who served as the Lord Chief Justice for 21 years. A notorious womaniser and socialite… In 1847 he decided to stand for parliament, and was elected unopposed as Liberal Member of Parliament for Southampton. His speech in the House of Commons on behalf of the government in the Don Pacifico dispute with Greece commended him to Lord John Russell, who appointed him Solicitor-General in 1850 and Attorney General in 1851, a post which he held till the resignation of the ministry in February 1852.
Life. Born in Altana, in what is now Romania and was then part of Habsburg Monarchy, to Alexander Cockburn and his wife Yolande, daughter of the Vicomte de Vignier (see Alexander Cockburn, son of Sir James Cockburn, 8th Baronet b. 1729 -his three older uncles having died without heirs).
He was initially educated largely abroad and became fluent in French and familiar with German, Italian and Spanish. He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, gaining a first in Civil law in 1824-5 and graduating in 1829 with an LL.B. degree, and also being elected a fellow, and afterwards an honorary fellow. He entered the Middle Temple in 1825, and was called to the bar in 1829. He joined the western circuit and built up a substantial practice… He became Recorder of Southampton and from that point started to reduce his election and parliamentary work in favour of more publicly notorious cases. In 1841 he was made a Q.C…
He inherited the baronetcy of Langton in 1858. In 1859, Cockburn became Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench.
Several Prime MInisters offered to nominate Cockburn for a peerage… he accepted the offer in 1864. However, Queen Victoria [1837-1901] refused, noting that “this peerage has been more than once previously refused upon the ground of the notoriously bad moral character of the Chief Justice.”
Advocate (1832-1847)
1841 a charge of simony, brought against his uncle, William, Dean of York (see, William Cockburn, 11th Baronet).
1843, Cockburn made a speech on behalf of the assassin which helped establish the insanity defence in Britain -based on the defendant’s ability to distinguish ‘right from wrong’ in favour of a broader approach based on causation; Cockburn displayed a mastery of the scientific evidence and was an innovator in exploiting forensic science in court.
1846, Lieutenant Henry Hawkey tried for murder after shooting James Alexander Seton in a duel -Cockburn secured his acquittal.
As judge (1856-1880) Cockburn always sought out the most sensational cases… so that he could sit in any trial likely to attract the attention of the press.
Martin v. Mackonachie: Cockburn granted a writ to quash suspension of Mackonochie for breach of the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 (see, below)-Cockburn’s decision was overturned by the Court of Appeal.
R v. Hicklin (1868): Cockburn developed the Hicklin test for obscenity -at issue was the statutory interpretation of the word “obscene” in the Obscene Publications Act 1857, which authorized the destruction of obscene books. The court held that all material tending “to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences” was obscene regardless of its artistic or literary merit. [https://en.wikipedia. ]
Woodley v. Metropolitan District Railway Co. Woodley was set to repair a wall in a darkened railway tunnel in which trains continued to run… he was seriously injured by a passing train. Cockburn held that the employer was not liable, invoking the principle of Volenti non fit injuria (Latin: “to a willing person, injury is not done”) is a common law doctrine which states that if someone willingly places themselves in a position where harm might result.. they are not able to bring a claim against the other party…
Trial of Michael Barrett for the Clerkenwell explosion. Barrett was the last man publicly hanged in England, 5/24/1868 -the practice ended by the Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 (ended public hanging, not hanging)
Trial of Boulton and Park for transvestism and “conspiring and inciting persons to commit an unnatural offence”. https://en.wikipedia. Thomas Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park (portrait, left) were two Victorian cross-dressers and suspected homosexuals who appeared as defendants in a celebrated trial in London in 1871, charged with “conspiring and inciting persons to commit an unnatural offence”. After the prosecution failed to establish that they had anal sex, which was then a crime, or that wearing women’s clothing was in any sense a crime, both men were acquitted.
Trial of Henry Wainwright for murder. Wainwright was arrested in possession of the dismembered body of his victim. He was sentenced to death and hanged 12/21/1875.
Alexander Cockburn died 11/28/1880 of angina pectoris at his house, Mayfair, London -he had continued working up until his death despite three heart attacks. He never married, as a result, the baronetcy became dormant. His remains were deposited in Catacomb A or Kensal Green Cemetery.
Although Cockburn never married, he had at least one daughter and probably a son, by the unmarried Elizabeth Godfrey… Alexander Dalton (Alex) Cockburn (1846-1887) who never married and to whom Cockburn left the majority of his fortune -his son did not succeed him as Baronet of Langton which became dormant.
https://en.wikipedia. Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 -repealed 3/1/1965. Introduced by Archbishop of Canterbury, to limit as he perceived as the growing ritualism of Anglo-Catholicism and the Oxford Movement within the Church of England. Tait’s Bill. was controversial. It was given government backing by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who called it “a bill to put down ritualism”. He referred to the practices of the Oxford Movement as “a mass in masquerade.” Queen Victoria was supportive of the Act’s Protestant intentions. Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone, a high church Anglican whose sympathies were for separation of church and state, felt disgusted that the liturgy was made, as he saw it, “a parliamentary football.”
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Served in the British Army, played an important role in the early settlement of eastern Canada and was a colonial administrator.
He joined the 7th Dragoon Guards at the age of 19 and served in South America and the Iberian Peninsula. He arrived in Canada in 1811 as a captain in the Canadian Fencibles (see, below) and fought in the War of 1812. He served with the Quartermaster-General for Upper Canada at York and Kingston. In 1815, he became assistant quartermaster-general for Upper Canada and assisted in settling immigrants near Perth in the Bathurst District.
In 1818, he became deputy quartermaster-general for Upper and Lower Canada. He helped establish military settlements at Perth, Richmond, Lanark, the Bay of Quinte, Glengarry County and on the Saint-Francois River in Lower Canada. He also founded a village at Franktown, Ontario. In 1819, he accompanied the Duke of Richmond on the tour of Perth and Richmond which led to the Duke’s death.
He returned to England in 1823. During his time there, he helped establish the price of lands for properties in Upper Canada and provided advice on the best locations for settlement in the region.
He served as superintendent of British Honduras from 1830 to 1837 and governor of the Bahamas from 1837 to 1844. He was knighted in 1841. He reached the rank of general in 1860. Died at Dover, England 1868.
Cockburn Town, the largest settlement on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas, was named after him, as was Cockburn Island in Ontario.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_units_of_the_War_of_1812#The_Canadian_Fencibles *The Canadian Fencibles. First recruited in Scotland in 1803.
Upper Canada. The Glengarry Light Infantry. Formed by order of Lieutenant General Sir George Prevost in 1812, recruited from settlements of discharged Scottish soldiers (and some evicted Scottish highlanders) in Glengarry district. Originally intended to wear highlander uniforms (kilts, etc.) they wore the dark green uniform with black facings of the Rifle Brigade instead, although they were armed with muskets rather than rifles.
Companies and detachments fought in several actions in Upper Canada in 1813, and the whole unit fought at the Battle of Lundy’s Lane [7/25/1814, Niagara Falls, Ontario -one of the bloodiest battles of the War of 1812]. The unit specialized in British light infantry tactics and thus was well-trained in duties such as skirmishing and concealed sentry duty.
While the unit was disbanded in 1816, its modern descendant within the Canadian Army is The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders. A modern reenactment unit based in Fort Erie Ontario, on the opposite side of the river from Buffalo, New York.
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(Jody Gray) Olivia Wilde, stated as distant cousin of Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet -see, above). I’m including her as a Cockburn Family research tool; I followed her family links to see if I would find more Cockburns in familiar surnames and areas in Scotland.
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Wilde Olivia Wilde (b. Olivia Jane Cockburn, 3/10/1984) is an American actress, model, producer, and director. Born in New York City… Her mother, Leslie Cockburn, an American-born 60 Minutes producer and journalist. Her father, Andrew Cockburn, is also a journalist who was born in London to an upper-class British family and was raised in Ireland. Wilde has an older sister, Chloe Cockburn, a civil rights attorney in New York City… Paternal grandfather, Claud Cockburn 1904-1981 was an Anglo-Scots journalist… his paternal great-grandfather was Scottish judge/biographer Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn. (see, below)
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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cockburn,_Lord_Cockburn * Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn; Cockpen, Midlothian 10/26/1779 -Bonaly, Midlothian 4/26/July 18/1854 -was a Scottish lawyer, judge and literary figure. He served as Solicitor General for Scotland between 1830 and 1834. Son of Henry Cockburn (see, below)
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Henry Cockburn’s father https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Cockburn Archibald Cockburn (1738, Edinburgh, Midlothian - 6/20/1820) was a Scottish judge. A keen Tory, he was Sheriff of Midlothian and Baron of the Court of Exchequer.
Family. Son of Archibald Cockburn of Cockpen and wife (m. 8/17/1735) Martha Dundas, daughter of Robert Dundas of Arniston (?-1727) and wife Margaret Sinclair, daughter of Sir Robert Sinclair of Murkle and Stevenston, 3rd Baronet (1643-1713), and first wife (m. Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Midlothian, 9/10/1663) Lady Helen Lindsay, daughter of John Lindsay (c. 1611-Tyninghame, East Lothian, 1678), 16th Earl of Crawford, 1st Earl of Lindsay, 10th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, 1st Lord Parbroath and Hereditary Steward of St Andrews, etc., and wife Lady Margaret Hamilton.
Marriage and issue… had three daughters and six sons: (born Cockpen, Midlothian) Elizabeth b. 1770. Robert b. 1771. Matilda b. 1772. Margaret b. 1773. George b. 1773. Archibald b. 1776. David b. 1778. Henry Thomas b. 1779. John b. 1784.
References: Cockburn, Sir Robert, Bt; Cockburn, Harry A. (pub. 1913). The Records of the Cokeburn Family. The House of Cockburn -pg 151 and 152. Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition Vol. 2, page 2342.
External links: thepeerage.com Archibald Cockburn. Genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry -battle/celeb/wilde -Ancestry of Olivia Wilde.
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Related Blog Posts -Cockburn Family. *Blog Post: House of Cockburn. http://gray-adamsfamily.blogspot.com/2017/08/house-of-cockburn.html **The House of Cockburn of that ilk and the cadets thereof: with historical anecdotes of the times in which many of the name played a conspicuous part. By Thomas H. Cockburn-Hood. pub 1888, Edinburgh. The surname of Cockburn. ‘Pedigree’ Chart. Book Index. Variations of Cockburn. Maps: David I of Scotland. Burghs founded (1113/24-1153). Scottish Borders and Berwickshire: Eyemouth, Berwick, Chirnside. The rise and fall of the Cockburn landowners. The Cockburn of Langton baronetcy went dormant in 1880 when the 12th Baronet, Sir Alexander Cockburn, died without legitimate heir… XV. 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… He was required to sell the estate of Ormiston in 1747… Samuel Cockburn, found it necessary to sell the Henderland estate in 1634…
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