When Paul David Cockerham was born on 8 May 1936, in West Virginia, United States, his father, Walter Martin Cockerham, was 50 and his mother, Mary Ethel Lambert, was 37. He married Peggy Jean Holcombe on 2 September 1972, in Duval, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in United States in 1949 and Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe, West Virginia, United States in 1950. He died on 5 October 2017, in Florida, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in South Florida National Cemetery, Palm Beach, Florida, United States.
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Cocker, from the Cocker river (a Celtic name apparently derived from an element kukro ‘winding’) + Old English hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.
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