Samuel Cochran was born in Paisley on 19 March 1824. His father Robert had been a writer and his mother Christian Wilson Cochran relied on a pension from the Widow’s Fund of the Faculty of Procurators of Paisley amounting to £31.10s annual to support Samuel and his sister aged four.

Circumstances inferring that the Child is a proper Object of the Charity, and falls under the Description of a Destitute Child, …….

The Mother has no provision for herself or her children except £31.10/. annually which she receives as the widow and mother of two children of a member of the Faculty of Procurators in Paisley.

Samuel was admitted to John Watson’s Institution in 1830.

After leaving the school, Samuel may have joined the family business of McMinn, Cochran, & Wilson, sewed muslin manufacturers in Glasgow and at Belfast. He was declared bankrupt in 1848.

He died in Govan, Glasgow on 6 January 1850 and was buried in the Glasgow Necropolis. His death notice only notes that he was ‘son of the late Robert Cochran, Esq., writer, Paisley’.

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