Swartz/Rand Family Tree » Sir John MURRAY of Cockpool (1465-1541)
Personal data Sir John MURRAY of Cockpool
Source 1- He was born in the year 1465 in Of, Cockpool, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.Source 1
Attention: Was younger than 16 years (15) when child (Cuthbert MURRAY, LORD OF COCKPOOL,) was born (??-??-1480). - (FamilySearch ID) : L587-VBH.
- He died on January 16, 1541 in Comlongon Castle, Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, he was 76 years old.Source 1
- He is buried in Cockpool, Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.Source 1
- A child of Cuthbert MURRAY and Marjory MENZIES
- This information was last updated on September 28, 2019.
Household of Sir John MURRAY of Cockpool
He is married to Johanna MURRAY.
They got married in the year 1489 at Cockpool, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, he was 24 years old.
Child(ren):
- Blanche MURRAY 1505-1560
- Patrick MURRAY 1495-????
- Blanche MURRAY 1493-????
- David MURRAY ± 1492-????
- Agnes MURRAY 1490-1560
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Historical events
Day of death January 16, 1541
- Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
- In the year 1541: Source: Wikipedia
- January 15 » King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
- April 7 » Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
- August 23 » French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
- September 11 » Santiago, Chile, is besieged by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonco, to free eight indigenous chiefs held captive by the Spaniards. However, the Spaniards decapitated them and rolled their heads on the main square, horrifying the indigenous warriors, and subsequently ending the attack.
- September 13 » After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
- December 10 » Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
Same birth/death day
- 1443 » Erasmo of Narni, Italian mercenary (b. 1370)
- 1545 » George Spalatin, German priest and reformer (b. 1484)
- 1547 » Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
- 1554 » Christiern Pedersen, Danish publisher and scholar (b. 1480)
- 1585 » Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral and politician (b. 1512)
- 1595 » Murad III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1546)
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Keith Swartz, "Swartz/Rand Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/swartz-rand-family-tree/I88896323.php : accessed December 6, 2025), "Sir John MURRAY of Cockpool (1465-1541)".