Person:Hugh Cochran (2)

Col. Hugh Cochran

• Montgomery, David B. A Genealogical History of: The Montgomerys and Their Descendants. (Owensville, Indiana: J. P. Cox, 1903), Page 365.^S2

In note 37, page 163, Montgomery’s Manuscript, I find this in reference to Hugh Cochran, who was a lieutenant colonel under Sir James Montgomery and afterwards became a colonel. This was Col. Hugh Cochran, of Ferguslie, near Paisley, who served under Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, King of Sweden, and also through all the period of the civil war in Ireland from 1641 to 1652. He was the fourth son of Alexander Blair, who had taken the name of Cochran in compliance with the settlement made by his wife’s father, William Cochran, of Castle Cochran, on the borders of Paisley and Lochwinnoch parishes.^S2

You will see by this statement that at that time there was a Cochran family as well as a titled estate of that name. The note continues:^S2

“Hugh Cochran’s grandmother was a daughter of Sir Robert Montgomery of Skelmorlie, a titled estate in Scotland. Hugh Cochran had six brother: First, John who served in Ireland; second, William, who became Earl of Dondonald; third, Alexander, of Auchincrench, also a colonel in the army; fourth, Sir Brice, also a colonel, who served in Ireland and was killed in 1650; fifth, Arthur – or Ochter – a captain; and, sixth, Gavin, a captain, who resided at Craigmuir parish, of Lochwinnoch, and died in 1701.^S2

“Hugh Cochran, mentioned in the text, married a daughter of Hugh Savage, county of Down, and by her had the family:^S2

1. John, of Ferguslie, who married Barbara, daughter of James Hamilton, a merchant of Glasgow, and died without issue prior to 1697;^S2

2. William, who succeeded to Ferguslie at the death of his brother; he married Bertha, daughter of William Blair, of Auchinvale.^S2

3. Grizzle, married Robert Miller, Minister of Ochiltree, who was outed in 1662, and died in 1685.^S2

4. Margaret, married John Hamilton, of Barr, parish of Lochwinnoch.^S2

5. Eupham, married Archibald Stewart, of Newton, in 1668.^S2

“At the funeral, 1663, of the third Viscount Montgomery, afterwards the Earl of Mount Alexander, in Ireland, Lieutenant Col. Cochran is mentioned among the kinsmen of the deceased; but by what family connection or in what degree he was so, the estate is unable to discover. By the act of settlement and explanation, Hugh Cogran – which is the same as “Cochran” – as a 1649 officer obtained his arrears of pay which amounted to the sum of 2, 754 lbs., 7s., 11d.^S2

1.   Hugh Cochran, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.

   Hugh Cochrane is the son of Alexander Cochrane and Elizabeth Cochrane.1 He married Joan Savage, daughter of Henry Savage.1
   He fought in the English Civil War, as a Royalist.1 He lived at Ferguslie, Renfrewshire, Scotland.1

2.   Montgomery, David B. A Genealogical History of: The Montgomerys and Their Descendants. (Owensville, Indiana: J. P. Cox, 1903)
   Page 365.
3.   Cochran Family of New Castle, Delaware.