Lilias Cochran or Cochrane was baptised at Loudoun, Ayrshire on the 30th of October 1785. The 1851 census supplies the information that the place of birth was Newmilns.

She was married to Robert Haddow at Loudoun on the 8th of January 1803.

In the 1841 census record, Lilias was resident with her husband in Main Street, Newmilns, and she was entered as aged 55.

In 1851, she was also resident with her husband at Main Street, Newmilns. Her age was given as 67, and her place of birth was entered as Newmilns.

Lilias (entered on the death certificate as Lillias) Haddow died on the 12th of December 1856 at Main Street, Newmilns. She was entered as 72 years of age. The cause of death was influenza, from which she had been suffering for one week. The informant was Adam Haddow, her son.

She was buried four days later, on the 16th of December 1856. The entry in the Loudon parish burial register for that date reads:

'Mrs Lillas Cochran or Haddow Weddow of the late Decefsed Robert Haddow Snr Flesher in Newmilns She is interred in the third Graff from the north March in there own Lair in Neumilns Churchyard'.

Forebears

Lilias Cochrane's parents are entered on her IGI birth entry as Matthew Cochran and Agnes Meikle.

According to the IGI, Matthew Cochran and Agnes Meikle were married at Loudoun on the 11th of July 1766. More accurately, the OPR entry states that 'Matthew Cochran and Agnes Meikle both in this parish gave up their names'. The date of the entry is hard to make out, but it is probably either the 4th or the 11th.

Matthew is also entered as having been born c. 1748. Agnes is entered as having been born c. 1752.

Lilias Haddow's death certificate supplies the information that Matthew Cochrane was a flesher and innkeeper, and that he was deceased by the time of her death in 1856. Agnes Meikle was likewise deceased by that time.

Brothers and Sisters

Various other children resulted from the marriage of Matthew Cochran and Agnes Meikle. At least two brothers and three sisters, all older, were christened at Loudoun. Matthew, 14th January 1768; Hugh, 20th January 1771; Agnes, 16th September 1774; Elizabeth, 21st April 1776; Mary, 17th January 1779.

It is understood that Mary Cochran was the lady of that name who married Adam Haddow at Loudoun on the 20th of December 1799, and was buried at Loudoun on the 7th of April 1814.