James Cockburn was born on 26 February 1885, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom as the son of Andrew Cockburn and Catherine Ferguson. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Jessie Lindsay Farquharson. He lived in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1916. He died in 1981, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 96.
Scottish (Midlothian) and northern English: habitational name from a place in Berwickshire named Cockburn, from Old English cocc ‘cock, rooster’ (or the related byname Cocca) + burna ‘stream’ (see Bourne ). This surname is traditionally pronounced Coburn.
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