Cochran Family History
Cochran Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from lands in the parish of Paisley,
near Glasgow. The place name is of uncertain derivation, perhaps from
Welsh coch ‘red’, although this etymology is not supported by
the early spelling Coueran.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cochran
Name Distribution of Cochran Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cochran families
 37 - 72  13 - 36 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cochran families
|
168 - 334 57 - 167 |
1 - 56 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cochran census records
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Cochran Family Origin
Cochran Emigration Information (US)
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Cochran Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cochran census records
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Military Service by Cochran
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