Researching Cecil Cochrane
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 4639 people with the Cochrane surname? In that year Cochrane was ranked number 912 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Cecil means "Blind" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Cecil Cochrane on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Cecil Cochrane and the Cochrane Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Cochrane Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Cochrane family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 7877 people with the Cochrane surname in the UK? Cochrane is now ranked number 753 for popularity in the UK. |
Cochrane Genealogy Databases
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Cochrane Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 9115 people with the Cochrane surname in the USA? Cochrane is ranked number 154 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Cecil Cochrane
Cecil Cochrane
Sir Cecil Algernon Cochrane (24 April 1869 – 23 September 1960) was a British Liberal Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for South Shields in 1916, resigning in 1918.
Cochrane was born in Sedgehill, Northumberland, the son of civil engineer William Cochrane and his wife, Eliza Collis. He was educated at Sherborne School and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating MA in 1894. In 1905, he married Frances Sibyl Potter, the youngest daughter of Colonel Addison Potter CB, of Heaton Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne.
In the general election of December 1910 he fought Durham for the Liberals unsuccessfully, and was briefly Member of Parliament for South Shields from 1916 to 1918, having been elected at a by-election in 1916, during the First World War.
He was the chairman of Armstrong College council and the honorary treasurer of the Durham College of Medicine from 1908 to 1926; the two institutions later merged to become Newcastle University. In 1920 he donated a sports ground in Heaton for the use of students at the colleges, which was later named Cochrane Park, and in 1924 he funded the construction of a students' union building.
He was knighted in 1933.
He died in 1960 in Newcastle upon Tyne, aged 92.
A steam train is named after him and is kept on the Tanfield Railway.
Source: Cecil Cochrane, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Cochrane
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