The Cochrane & Allied Families

Cochranes from Scotland to Colonial Virginia (c 1760), to Kentucky (1811), to Kansas (1859) and beyond. Allied families to the United States from England, Scotland, Ireland and Switzerland.

MERIWETHER, Nicholas "The Younger" and THORNTON, Mildred Family

• Male MERIWETHER, Nicholas "The Younger"

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1714	Colony of Virginia, England
  Death	12 May 1739	Colony of Virginia, UK
  Burial		Clover Fields Cemetery, Keswick, Albemarle, Virginia, USA
  Marriage	Abt 1738  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]	Colony of Virginia, UK  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Father	MERIWETHER, Col. William Sr. | F91 Group Sheet
  Mother	BUSHROD, Elizabeth | F91 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female THORNTON, Mildred

  
  

  Birth	21 Mar 1720/21	Snow Creek - Thornton Family Home, Essex County, Colony of Virginia, UK
  Death	16 Nov 1778	Castle Hill Plantation, Cismont, Albemarle, Virginia, USA
  Burial		Castle Hill - Walker Family Cemetery, Cismont, Albemarle, Virginia, USA
  Other Spouse	WALKER, Dr. Thomas Jr. | F318
  Marriage	22 Jun 1741
  Father	THORNTON, Col. Francis Jr. | F317 Group Sheet
  Mother	TALIAFERRO, Mary Elizabeth | F317 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female + MERIWETHER, Mildred

  
  

  Birth	19 May 1739	Colony of Virginia, UK
  Death	Between Nov 1761 and 1764	Newcastle, Hanover, Colony of Virginia, UK
  Burial		Newcastle, Hanover, Colony of Virginia, UK
  Spouse	SYME, Col. John Jr. | F88
  Marriage	1753	Colony of Virginia, UK

  
  

• Sources

  [S643] Sarah Travers Lewis (Scott) Anderson, Book - Lewises, Meriwethers & Kin, (1938; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2008.), 19 Feb 2022, p 221. [S635] The Meriwether Society, Inc., Society - Meriwether, ((http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~meriweth/ : 2015)), 10 Jul 2015, accessed 10 July 2015), ID #: I304, Nicholas Meriwether; Various Meriwether Society sources. [S159] Miriam Margaret (Cochrane) Hunter, Book - Four John Symes of VA, (Coshocton, OH: School Annual Publishing Co., 1986.), 19 Dec 2010, p. 35. [S607] Alexander Brown, Book - Cabells and Their Kin (Internet Archives), (Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1895.), 1 Mar 2015, p 189. [S1517] Mary B. Kegley and F. B. Kegley, Book - Early Adventures on the Western Waters (VA & WV), (Orange, Virginia: Green Publishers, Inc., 1980.), 28 Jun 2022, p 27-32.