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Adam Cockburn
(1824 - 1912)
Adam Cockburn
was born on 13 November 1824 in Newbattle Midlothian, where he was
christened on 12 December 1824. He was the fourth child and second
son of Moore
Carfrae Cockburn and Christian Duncan Anderson.
He spent all
of his early years in Newbattle, some time after 1841, but before
1845 he moved to Berwick - most likely in pursuite of work.
In Berwick he
met Mary Spence Murrary, whom he married in Earlston Berwick
in April 1845. Mary Spence Murray was born abt 1826 in Lauder Berwick,
she was the daughter of Margaret Spence and an unspecified father.
Adam and Mary
produced fifteen children (seven sons and eight daughters) between
Moore and Christian produced ten children (six sons and four daughters)
between 1845 and 1871. Only ten of the children survived to adulthood:
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Margaret
Cockburn Born 11 April 1846. Died 18 Oct 1862 |
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Christina
Cockburn Born 12 May 1848. Married John Fairbairn
on 4 Jun 1880 |
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unnamed
female Cockburn Born abt 1849. |
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William
Cockburn Born 2 July 1850. Married Isabella Struth
on 30 Oct 1874 |
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unnamed
male Cockburn Born abt 1852. |
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unnamed
male Cockburn Born abt 1854. |
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Lilias
Cockburn Born 3 Mar 1855. Christened 9 Mar 1855. Married
Joseph Charles
Kitching on 27 Dec 1872 |
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Adam
Cockburn Born 22 Nov 1857. Died 22 Nov 1862 |
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Mary
Cockburn Born 25 May 1860. Married Robert Redpath
on 14 Dec 1877. |
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Walter
Cockburn Born 17 Aug 1861. Married Annie Black on
3 Jul 1885. |
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Jane
Cockburn (twin) Born 13 Feb 1864 |
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Margaret
Cockburn (twin) Born 13 Feb 1864. |
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Adam
More Cockburn Born 24 Sep 1866. Married Agnes Dodds
on 2 Jun 1887 |
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Ann
Cockburn Born 1 Oct 1868. Died 29 Apr 1912 |
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Alexander
Spence Cockburn Born 16 Aug 1871. Died 4 May 1912 |
After their
marriage Mary and Adam were residing in Wester Housebyres, and at
the time of the 1851 census, the family is recorded as living on
"south side of main street running thro' burgh of Lauder (No
actual address).
By 1855 the
family had moved to Trabrown in Lauder Berwick where they were residing
at the time of the 1861 census - 14 Trabrown, Lauder, Berwick.
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In late
1861 the family moved to Maltbarns, Channelkirk where their
tenth child - Walter was born. About
a year after Walter's birth the family experienced a double
tragedy when Typhoid fever struck down their children Margaret
and Adam - who died within one month of each other.
Despite
this early setback, the family must have been relatively happy
in Channelkirk, for they stayed there for over 20 years. During
this period Adam worked as a gamekeeper on Carfraemill Farm,
and the family lived in the cottage named Maltbarns, which
still stands today (right).
For reasons
unknown, the family relocated some time during the next ten
years - most likely around 1884 - the family moved to
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Roxburgh, where
in 1891 they were living in a Farm Tenants house at Smailholm Mains
- a small house with 3 windowed rooms - and Adam was working as a
Forester and hedger. Living with Adam and Mary at the time were their
son Alexander Spence Cockburn, their daughter Margaret and her two
illegitimate children - Adam Carruthers Cockburn and Alexander Spence
Cockburn - their grandson William Redpath and granddaughter Jemima
Scott Cockburn - illegitimate daughter of his eldest daughter Christina
- who it appears they raised as their daughter.
The family were
still living in Roxburgh - at Hundale Mill in Jedburgh - when Mary
died on 6 Feb 1898. After her death, Adam moved to Fogo in Berwick,
where he was living in 1901 at the Sisterpath Cottages with a number
of his children and grandchildren. Also residing in the household
were his grandchildren Adam Carruthers Cockburn Alexander Spence
Cockburn and Jemima Scott Cockburn his daughters Margaret and Annie
and Annies illegitimate son - William Spence Cockburn.
The movements
of the family over the next ten years are unknown, however it is
likely that at some point in time during this period, Adam resided
at Hassington Mains in Eccles Berwick with his daughter Ann and
son Alexander Spence - both of whom died there in early 1912.
By August 1912,
Adam was living with his daughter in Lauder Berwick with his daughter
Christina and her husband John Fairbairn, and it is here that he
died on 12 August 1912 of heart disease, he was 87.
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