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Author: cockburn141
Surnames: Cockburn
Classification: queries
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http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.cockburn/245.1.1/mb.ashx
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Hi Philippa,
Thanks for your reply!
You are indeed descended from a distinguished Cockburn line if you can count Lord Henry Cockburn among your ancestors. The earliest Cockburn ancestors that I have been able to trace are from the Duns area, probably near Langton, in the early 1600s. By the late 1700s my Cockburn ancestors were shoemakers in Duns (then a prosperous market town). In 1830s my great-grandfather left his father's shoe business and completed a medical degree in Edinburgh. Dr. John Cockburn finished his career in Glasgow and died in 1895. His wife, Janet Kennedy Bryson Cockburn, was very active in the temperance movement and the movement for woman's suffrage. I can send you my Cockburn line of descent if you are interested in seeing it.
The reason for my own posting and query is that, as a result of a Y-DNA test, I have found an interesting genetic anomaly: My Y-DNA (as well as that of my father) is very similar to that of many male members of the Dunbar family. This is not too unusual a situation since the Dunbars also originate from the Borders. The strong genetic match that I have found suggests a fairly recent link between the Dunbars and my Cockburn line, probably within the last 200 years.
I am looking for other male Cockburns who would be interested in joining a study that would sketch out, using genetic means, the various main strands of the Cockburn family. (The Dunbar family has been collecting Y-DNA test results for several years already, and they have already built up an impressive genetic "map" of their family.) If you are in touch with male Cockburn descendants of Lord Henry Cockburn, then their participation in a Cockburn Y-DNA study would be especially useful since their Y-DNA results could serve as reference known-accurate Cockburn Y-DNA. (I am assuming that, as far as you know, there were no adoptions into your line of male Cockburns.)
More background concerning the project is included in the following earlier posting:
http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.cockburn/248/mb.ashx
I would be pleased to discuss the genetic testing technique with you further, either by further postings or by e-mail. I would be pleased to arrange for one testing kit to be sent to one male Cockburn in your line. (Y-DNA collection is a very simple and painless procedure--basically you use a dull plastic "rake" to scrape off some cells from inside your cheek.) The test results were be stored and possibly shared with other researchers in an anonymous form. It is the pattern of genetic "colours" that is important, and the possibility of comparing the genetic patterns to determine relative distances within the Cockburn family tree.
kindest regards,
Bruce Cockburn (not the singer/songwriter)
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Author: PhilippaHart33
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I am a female descendant of the Cockburns in Duns:-
Lord Henry Cockburn was my G.G.G Grandfather
Archibald Cockburn his Father and so on....
Is this of interest?
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