Records of David Cobb on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of David Cobb 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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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for David Cobb and the Cobb Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Cobb 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 Cobb family tree.

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Some Famous People called David Cobb

David Cobb (artist)

David Cobb (15 March 1921 – 18 June 2014) was a British marine artist and served as President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists.

In the early 1940s, Cobb served as 1st Lieutenant in the Atlantic convoys. Between 1943–1945, he commanded MTBs, working in the North Sea.

Cobb began his painting career at Newlyn and then worked in the Sussex village of Itchenor (where he lived for some years) until he moved to live near Brockenhurst in the New Forest in the 1950s. He lived with his wife, Jean, until she died in 2008.

He died on 18 June 2014.

Source: David Cobb (artist), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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