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Eliza Cochran

Eliza Cochran

Born
1838-01-01 12:00:00
Died
1918-05-04 12:00:00
Gender
Female
Place of migration
Migrated to/Born in Australia

Eliza Cochran was born about 1838 in the Parish of Mullin in County Monaghan, according to her marriage certificate..  There is no longer a parish there, however the village is being rebuilt.

It is believed that ELiza and her parents were in the workhouse in Monaghan and that her parents died there.  She then travelled to Melbourne, Australia from Southhampton on the ship Tudor where she was assigned to a Mr Carlmore of 4 Great Bolton St, Melbourne.  This may possibly have been one of the ships under the Earl Grey Orphan Scheme transporting young female orphans from Ireland to Australia in the 1850's.

By October 1856 she was in Beechworth, Victoria, Australia marrying John Young Couper, a young Scotsman who had qualified as a doctor in Glasgow.  He emigrated on the ship Ottile in 1852.  On his marriage certificate he claims to be a manufacturer and merchant in Spring Creek, Beechworth, Victoria.

By the time their first child is born in 1857 his occupation is listed as a miner (gold, we assume). He followed this occupation for the remainder of his life with Eliza travelling with him through the goldfields in Victoria and NSW.  Eliza settled in Goulburn and after the death of John Couper in 1877 she married James Kearns Young in 1878.

Eliza died at the age of 82 in Croydon in Sydney, NSW, Australia on 4 May 1918.

Associated communities

Monaghan

Co. Monaghan, or Muíneachán in Irish, is located on the Border Region of Ireland.  We are famous for our ancient Irish craft of lace-making and we have many lakes,  forests and small mountains.  Our county town is Monaghan and we have a population of approximately 56,000.  We look forward to helping you connect with your ancestors’ place of origin.  

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Buildings in this community

  • Cahan's Meeting House

    Location: Monaghan

    Lisnavane, County Monaghan

  • Hope Castle

    Location: Monaghan

    Castleblaney, County Monagham

  • Ulster Canal Stores

    Location: Monaghan

    Clones

Timeline events in this community

  • 1930s

    Travelling Folk in the 1930s

    <p>Between 1937 and 1939, primary school pupils across the Republic of Ireland interviewed the elderly in their neighborhood to collect and record local stories and folklore from the 19th century. "The Schools Collection" as it became known is held by the Dúchas Folklore Collection in UCD and is and has been digitized online at duchas.ie. One of the topics schoolchildren were asked to write about were "Travelling Folk" or An Lucht Siúil. </p> <p>Here is a selection of what "settled" children wrote about travelers in the late 1930s.</p>

    1938-01-01 12:00:00

  • 1930s

    1930 All Ireland Senior Gaelic Football Final

    1930-09-28 12:00:00

  • 1830s

    County Monaghan in the 1830s

    <p>A snapshot of pre-famine local history, as described in the "Topographical Dictionary of Ireland" by Samuel Lewis, 1837. (Much of the information collected here was submitted by members of the local gentry and clergy of the time).</p>

    1837-01-01 12:00:00

  • 1970s

    Dublin-Monaghan Bombings

    1974-05-17 12:00:00

Eliza Cochran