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The Cochrane surname

The Cochrane name in Orange County Indexed: 10 historical records, 2 people in the chronology and 2 headings in books and archives.

In the records
1768 to 1828 most named in the 1760s
  • Deeds 1768–1828
In the chronology
1939 to 2018 2 people in 4 entries, most in the 1930s
In books and archives
2 people, born 1917 to 1925
Places in its deeds and wills
Stinking Quarter Creek (1)
Often named with
Daniel 2, Marsh 2, Jett 2
People with a page here
Shirley Cochrane, William McWhorter Cochrane
Spellings to try
Cochran, Cockran, Cothran, Cothrane
Search beyond these records

Drawn from the records below. Families named together, or married to one another, are leads to follow, not proof of kinship. A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.

In the chronology 2 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

In books and archives 2 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

In the historical records 10 records

3 deeds and 7 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Search the name in every collection

1760s

1790s

1820s

Undated

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