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.
LOONEY, Robert Sr. and LEWELLYN, Elizabeth Family
m. Abt 1715
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LOONEY, Robert Sr.
Birth Abt 1692 Maughold, Isle of Man 
Death Abt Oct 1770 Botetourt County, Colony of Virginia, UK Burial Marriage Abt 1715 [1, 2] Isle of Man [1, 2] Father LOONEY, John Sr. | F832 Group Sheet Mother —?—, Llewellen | F832 Group Sheet
Female
LEWELLYN, Elizabeth
Birth Abt 1701 Isle of Man Death Aft 13 Nov 1770 Botetourt County, Colony of Virginia, UK Burial Father Mother
Male
LOONEY, Thomas
Birth 1718 Isle of Man Death 1755-1760 Burial Spouse HARMON, Jane | F815 Marriage Abt 1740
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LOONEY, Robert Jr.
Birth 1721 Isle of Man Death Feb 1756 Augusta County, Colony of Virginia, UK Burial Spouse RHEA, Margaret | F816 Marriage Abt 1742 Augusta County, Colony of Virginia, UK
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LOONEY, Daniel
Birth 1723 Isle of Man Death Abt Nov 1760 Augusta County, Colony of Virginia, UK Burial Spouse EVANS, Margaret Jane | F817 Marriage 1743
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LOONEY, Adam
Birth 1725 Isle of Man Death Abt 1770 Province of North Carolina, UK Burial Spouse WRIGHT, Hannah | F818 Marriage 1746
Female
LOONEY, Louisa
Birth 1728 Isle of Man Death Yes, date unknown Burial Spouse SHELBY, Captain John | F821 Marriage Abt 1750 Province of North Carolina, UK
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LOONEY, Absalom
Birth Abt 1729 Isle of Man Death Bef Jul 1796 Botetourt County, Virginia, USA Burial Spouse MOORE, Margaret Eleanor | F823 Marriage 1750 Augusta County, Colony of Virginia, UK
Female
LOONEY, Lucy Jane
Birth 1730 Isle of Man Death Yes, date unknown Burial Spouse HOLSTON, Stephen | F824 Marriage 1753
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LOONEY, John
Birth Abt 1732 Isle of Man Death Abt 1817 Tennessee, USA Burial Spouse RENFRO, Esther Hettie | F825 Marriage Abt 1756
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LOONEY, Peter Grancer
Birth Abt 1733 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Colony, UK Death 8 Feb 1760 Augusta County, Colony of Virginia, UK Burial Spouse LAUDERDALE, Margaret | F826 Marriage 11 Oct 1759
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LOONEY, Colonel David
Birth Abt 1736 Orange County, Colony of Virginia, UK Death 1 May 1810 Blountville, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA Burial Spouse MCCLELLAND, Mary Ann | F827 Marriage Apr 1755 Augusta County, Colony of Virginia, UK
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+ LOONEY, Captain Joseph
Birth Abt 1740 Augusta County, Colony of Virginia, UK Death 5 Nov 1816 Poplar Springs, Roane, Tennessee, USA Burial Baptist Cemetery, Kingston, Roane, Tennessee, USA Spouse BOWEN, Jane | F59 Marriage 25 Jun 1764 Augusta County, Colony of Virginia, UK
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Notes Married:
- Most sources include the 12 children listed here, and state that there may have been additional children. Various sources say that 7 to 9 of their children were born on the Isle of Man. - W. Winston COCHRANE IV [1]
Family Event:
- This family was one of 70 that entered the Colony of Virginia with Alexander ROSS and Morgan BRYAN, of the Province of Pennsylvania, according to an agreement made as set forth in an order of the Lieutenant Governor and Council of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia dated 25 April 1735.
Each of the families received a patent from British King George II. Robert LUNA's [LOONEY] was dated 12 Nov 1735 for 294 acres on the south bank of the Cohongoronta (Upper Potomac) River, near Samuel OWNES' plantation. It was to be held as of the King's Manor of East Greenwich in the county of Kent, in free and common socage, not in Capite or by Knight's services, by cultivating and improving 3 and part of every 50 acres of land, fee rent of one shilling yearly, within 3 years. This property was probably not far from Hagerstown, MD, where, according to some accounts, one of the LOONEY children once attended school.
On 22 March 1739 the Orange County Court ordered the recording of the deed from Robert LUNA [LOONEY] to Jeremiah JACKS, but it seems not to have been done. A second deed was made, perhaps 4 Nov 1756, by James JACKS acting for Robert LOONEY of Augusta Co. with David LOONEY et al being witnesses to the power of Attorney which was dated 13 Jun 1766, or possibly merely recorded in Frederick Co. on that date.
Sometine between 1739 and 1742, the family moved southwest in Virginia to a location in Augusta County, which was to become Botetourt County in 1770. Robert LOONEY obtained a grant of 250 acres on James River and on Looney's Mill Creek on 30 Jul 1742. It was here that he established and operated Looney's Ferry across the James River.
On 11 Oct 1759 Robert LOONEY made an agreement with his sons Peter LOONEY and David LOONEY, by the terms of which much of his land and other property were given to these sons who were to build a house for their parents and care for them through the infirmities of old age. There was some delay or dispute over the terms of the agreement and meanwhile Peter died in 1760. But again an agreement was reached, and David was even willing to move the barn in order to build the house where his parents wanted it.
But on 15 Nov 1762 Robert LOONEY and Elizabeth deeded to John BOWYER the 250 acres that was patented in 1742 on 30 July. This seems to have included not only the land verbally given to sons Peter and David, but also land previously given to sons Absalom and Daniel. Consequently, certain suits were brought by the heirs of Daniel and of Peter against Robert LOONEY and John BOWYER, and these affairs were taken or discussed in the court records at length. Robert was active at least as late as Aug 1764 when he pleaded in answer to such suits that he was drunk when the instruments were signed, and on 20 Nov 1764 he deeded land, 160 acres at Sinking Springs to Joseph LOONEY. On 24 May 1765 it was decreed that John BOWYER should reconvey to each of the interested parties their lands, and Robert LOONEY's original agreement of 1759 was recorded at that time. John BOWYER deeded the lands to David LOONEY, to Peter LOONEY Jr., son of Peter LOONEY, deceased, and to "Margaret" LOONEY, daughter and heiress of Daniel.
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Sources - [S409] Leroy W. Tilton, Book - Early Looneys in America, (http://web.archive.org/web/20110412041745/http://home.flash.net/~johnsonl/index1.htm: 1997), 22 Sep 2012, PDF pages 7-19. accessed 22 Sep 2012.
- [S411] Lythgoe, Darrin., Family Group Sheet - Looney, Robert & Elizabeth, (Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families. http://www.frostandgilchrist.com/index.php : 2012), 23 Sep 2012, Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
(http://www.frostandgilchrist.com/index.php : accessed 23 Sep 2012).
- [S409] Leroy W. Tilton, Book - Early Looneys in America, (http://web.archive.org/web/20110412041745/http://home.flash.net/~johnsonl/index1.htm: 1997), 22 Sep 2012, PDF pages 7-19. accessed 22 Sep 2012.