The Gathering 2009 will occur July 25-27 in Edinburgh Scotland. This worldwide clan gatthering will be held in conjunction with the World Championship Heavyweight Scottish Games. You can learn much more about this event at www.clangathering.org . Clan Cochrane will march in the Clan Parade and have a booth at the festival.

Here is a new web document prepared with borrowed Blackmask Online etext for Arthur's Classic Novels: The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. by Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald

Here is a link to a site with new images of the 12th Earl of Dundonald

We have added a new pages on the Cochranes and other spellings of the name in the 1790 thru 1840 Census, and 1850 Census. You will need to unzip it with WinZip or PKzip, and the files are 4 Mbyte and 12 Mbytes in size after unzipping. The names that don't have a spelling after them are spelled Cochran.

Grace Cochran-Bobrowski has published a 2 volume set of Cochrane Geneology Books. Details in our book shop

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