Researching Claudia Cockburn
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 3821 people with the Cockburn surname? In that year Cockburn was ranked number 1113 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Claudia means "Lame" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Claudia Cockburn on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Claudia Cockburn in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Claudia Cockburn and the Cockburn Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Cockburn 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 Cockburn family tree.
Look at Parish Records for Claudia Cockburn at Find My Past.
Check out for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Claudia Cockburn using the FreeBMD database.
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Search the LDS Database for records about Claudia Cockburn.
Research the Cockburn surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Cockburn Military records.
| Did you know that there are currently 3949 people with the Cockburn surname in the UK? Cockburn is now ranked number 1456 for popularity in the UK. |
Cockburn Family History Databases
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Cockburn Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Cockburn surname in the USA? Cockburn is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Cockburn Databases
Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Claudia Cockburn. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Claudia Cockburn
Claudia Cockburn
Claudia Cockburn Flanders, OBE (11 February 1933 – 25 June 1998) was an American-British disability activist who spent much of her working life in the United Kingdom.
Her parents were Claud Cockburn, a journalist, and Hope Hale Davis. She married singer-songwriter Michael Flanders in 1959. Her stepmother, by her father's remarriage, was Jean Ross, the reported inspiration for Christopher Isherwood's iconic character Sally Bowles. Through her father, she was the half-sister of mystery writer Sarah Caudwell, Ross's daughter, Irish journalists Alexander, Andrew and Patrick Cockburn, and paternal aunt of actress Olivia Wilde (née Cockburn), including Wilde's siblings. Through her mother, she was the half-sister of the American writer Lydia Davis.
In 1987, Flanders formed Tripscope, an organisation to help disabled people with transportation difficulties. She created the post of adviser on disability to the National Bus Company (UK) in the 1970s and served for many years on the national Joint Committee on Mobility for Disabled People and the Department of Transport Advisory Committee on Disability in the UK. She was awarded an OBE in 1981 for her services to disabled people.
Source: Claudia Cockburn, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Cockburn
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