When William Cochran was born on 9 September 1813, his father, James Cochran, was 53 and his mother, Elisabeth Macfarlane, was 49.
Scottish (Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire): habitational name from the lands of Cochrane in the parish of Paisley, near Glasgow. The placename is of uncertain derivation, perhaps from Welsh coch ‘red’, although this etymology is not supported by the early spelling Coueran.
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