Person:John Cochrane (6)

Sir John Cochrane

• Sir John Cochrane was the son of William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald and Eupheme Scott. He married Margaret Strickland, daughter of Sir William Strickland, 1st Bt. and Margaret Cholmley, in March 1656. He died after 23 June 1707. He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Ayrshire [Scotland] in 1669. In 1683 he was suspected of complicity in the Rye House Plot, and fled to Holland. In 1685 he returned to Scotland and took part in Argyll's uprising. Sir John and his son took refuge in the house of his uncle, Gavin Cochrane of Craigmuir, whose wife Margaret Cleland was the sister of Captain Cleland, killed at Muirdykes, and out of revenge she betrayed them to the royalists, and they were conveyed to the Tolbooth of Edinburgh. He was imprisoned and his lands confiscated. In 1690 he was restored to his estates. He lived at Ochiltree, Scotland.
• Descendants of JOHN, of Dundonald, of Paisley, Scotland, who went over to Ulster in the north of Ireland circa 1680 - 1684, or before, with three of his sons: HUGH, JOHN, and JAMES, believing they would be free to follow their faith in the Presbyterian church. But this was not to be. They were not allowed to worship openly and their marriages were not honored unless done in the State Church. They were taxed heavily and had no rights in government. So they fled Ireland to save their wealth, if not their lives, and came to America, very likely before 1720. Before 1724 COCHRANS first settled on the Susquehanna river, then the frontier. Scotch Irish fighters served as a shield to Penn's Quakers.

1.   Scharf, John Thomas. History of Delaware, 1609-1888. (Tucson, Arizona: W.C. Cox Co., 1974)
   Pages 999, 1000.
2.   Cochran Family of New Castle, Delaware.
3.   Sir John Cochrane, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.

   Sir John Cochrane was the son of William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald and Eupheme Scott.1 He married Margaret Strickland, daughter of Sir William Strickland, 1st Bt. and Margaret Cholmley, in March 1656.1 He died after 23 June 1707.1
   
   He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Ayrshire [Scotland] in 1669.1 In 1683 he was suspected of complicity int he Rye House Plot, and fled to Holland.1 In 1685 he returned to Scotland and took part in Argyll's uprising. He was imprisoned and his lands confiscated.1 In 1690 he was restored to his estates.1 He lived at Ochiltree, Scotland.1
   
   Children of Sir John Cochrane and Margaret Strickland
   William Cochrane+1 d. a 1739
   Grizel Cochrane+1 d. 21 Mar 1748
   unknown son Cochrane1
   unknown son Cochrane1
   unknown daughter Cochrane1
   John Cochrane+1 b. 30 Jun 1662, d. c 7 Jan 1729

4.   John Cochrane of Ochiltree, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
5.   Rogers, Charles. The Book of Robert Burns: Genealogical and Historical Memoirs of the Poet, His Associates and Those Celebrated in His Writings. (Edinburgh, Scotland: Grampian Club)
   Page 95.

   Thomas Murdoch of Cumloden, who resided at the Risk, Minnigaff, married Elizabeth Cochrane, of the noble family of Dundonald, and niece of Grizel Cochrane, celebrated in family tradition. According to the family narrative, her father, Sir John Cochrane of Ochiltree, an associate in Argyle’s Expedition, was denounced as a traitor, and, being apprehended in the county of Renfrew, was brought from thence to Edinburgh, and there thrown into prison. By the Privy Council, intimation of his arrest was conveyed to James VII., in London, and the returning messenger, it was expected, would bring the solicited death-warrant. The procedure of the Privy Council becoming known to Sir John’s daughter, Miss Grizel, she, in the disguise of a highwayman, attacked the royal courier, and compelled him to surrender his missives, which included the death-warrant. Miss Cochrane’s feat was alleged to have been performed in the neighbourhood of Alnwick, on the 7th July 1685; and her act proved permanently serviceable, for her father afterwards obtained a pardon; he became the first Earl of Dundonald. The heroine married John Kerr, of Morriston, in Berwickshire.
   
   Of the marriage of Thomas Murdoch of Cumloden and Elizabeth Cochrane was born a son, who died early; also six daughters, Catherine, Euphemia, Grizel, Charlotte, Barbara and Mary.

6.   Anderson, William. The Scottish nation, or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. (Edinburgh: A. Fullarton, 1867-1868)
   Vol. 2, Page 100.

   Sir John and his son took refuge in the house of his uncle, Gavin Cochrane of Craigmuir, whose wife Margaret Cleland was the sister of Captain Cleland, killed at Muirdykes, and out of revenge she betrayed them to the royalists, and they were conveyed to the Tolbooth of Edinburgh.