The Cochrane & Allied Families
Cochranes from Scotland to Colonial Virginia (c 1760), to Kentucky (1811), to Kansas (1859) and beyond. Allied families to the United States from England, Scotland, Ireland and Switzerland.
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Welcome to the Cochrane family history !After growing up in their father’s mercantile business in Ayrshire, Scotland, David Cochran II (1696-1771) and his brother, Andrew (1694-1777), became partners in one of the largest Glasgow mercantile firms, firms known as the “Tobacco Lords” for their trans-Atlantic trading. Andrew became a famous Lord Provost of Glasgow for his support of the Crown during the English Civil War. David’s son, David Cochran III (1739-1792), the family immigrant, moved to Hanover County, Virginia circa 1760 to support the family business from America. As a Corporal, he fought with the Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War. With his marriage in 1774 he began the ritual of recording births, marriages and deaths in the 1759 family Bible, which has been passed down for 5 generations. His son, Dr. William Cochran (1779-1853), got his medical training at the University of Pennsylvania in 1797/1798 from the most prestigious doctors in the country. He moved his medical practice to northern Kentucky in 1811 and then to Louisville in 1833. He was a surgeon in the War of 1812. He wrote our first family history in 1841. His son, Dr. William Winston Cochrane I (1820-1899), received his Medical Degree from the University of Louisville, and moved to Atchison, Kansas in 1859. He was involved in establishing the Kansas Medical Society that year, and served as its President and Treasurer. He was a Union doctor in the Civil War, and a distinguished doctor in the State of Kansas for 40 years. His grandson, William Winston Cochrane III (1912-1980), graduated from the University of Kansas, and was a Special Agent in the FBI during WWII. He moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1946 to practice law. His sister and my aunt, Miriam Margaret (nee Cochrane) Hunter (1903-1989), devoted her life as the family genealogist, publishing several books. Her successful research, before computers, entailed extensive letter writing and travel. This website is dedicated to her!Surnames of Direct Ancestors of William Winston Cochrane IV: Avenal, Baldwin, Barclay, Batte, Bayley, Blair, Bobby, Boyd, Browne, Bushrod, Campbell, Cobb, Cochran/Cochrane, Coffey, Colquhoun, Constable, Cox, Craufurd/Crawford, Crichton, Cross, Cunningham, Dabney/Dawbney, Dalsallock, Dansie, Davis, Day, De Ros, Debnam, Dowe, Dunbar, Early, Eberhardt, Ellis, Evans, Ferguson, Fitzhugh, Fraser, Galbraith, Gardiner, Garland, Garvan, Geddes, Gowland, Hagey, Haie, Hall, Halstead, Hamerton, Hamilton, Harris, Hartley, Haynes, Hesketh, Hey, Hobbs, Holdaway, Hollyway, Howard, Hurley, Jackson, Jennings, Jenynges, Johnson, Keene, Lane, MacWilliam, McCrackin, Mercia, Meriwether, Mills, Mowbray, Muller, Overton, Plumpton, Radcliffe, Reese, Robinson, Rowland, Russell, Savage, Semphill, Sherburne, Smith, Snawsell, St. John, Stanley, Stewart, Stoll, Stubblefield, Syme, Taliaferro, Thornton, Thorson, Townley, Waters, West, Westley, Winston, Wolfe, Wylie, YanceyDirect Ancestors of William Winston Cochrane IV who fought in the American Revolutionary War (8): David Cochran III; John Day, Sr.; Vincent Hobbs, Sr.; Timothy Holdaway, Sr.; Capt. John Russell, Sr.; Thomas Stewart; Contact Us
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Cochrane Family Bible - printed 1759, London - original pages rebound in the 1940s