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Historical References

"COCKS, Cox. Heruinus Koks witnessed a charter of the lands of Cragyn (Craigie) near Dundee c. 1236-48 (LAC., p. 42). The ancestors of Cox of Invergowrie were originally Cocks or Cock. Duncan Cokkis was shepherd of the flocks of the bishop of Dunkeld, 1511 (Rent. Dunk., p. 178), and George Cocks appears in Lenstoune, 1690 (Dunkeld). "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Cocks Genealogy

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