When Catherine Buchanan was born on 27 June 1826, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Findlay Buchanan, was 25 and her mother, Margaret Elliot, was 24. She married James Cooper on 1 November 1846, in Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1841 and Camlachie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom for about 10 years.
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Scottish (western Scotland): habitational name from Buchanan in Stirlingshire, perhaps named with Gaelic buth chanain ‘house of the canon’.
Irish: adopted for Ó Buadhachanáin, see Bohannon .
History: This is the name of a Scottish clan associated with lands on the eastern shores of Loch Lomond and in the Lennox. — The name Buchanan was brought independently to North America from Scotland by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. George Buchanan came to MD in 1698. — James Buchanan (1791–1868), 15th President of the US (1857–61), was born near Mercersburg, PA, the son of a successful land speculator and store keeper, who had emigrated to PA from Scotland in 1783.
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