COCHRANE, HUGO [SSNE 4221]
- Surname
- COCHRANE, COCHRAN
- First name
- HUGO, HUGH
- Title/rank
- OFFICER
- Nationality
- SCOT
- Region
- Social status
- OFFICER
- Education
- Religion
Text source
Hugh Cochran is listed as one of the Scottish officers given a Latin letter of safe conduct on 17 December 1608. They were sent under the auspices of James Spens [SSNE 1642] to King James VI and I in London in 1608/9 seeking levies for Swedish service. He was amongst Samuel Cockburn [SSNE 4219], Daniel Rogers [SSNE 4222], Robert Kinnaird [SSNE 4223], Patrick Ruthven [SSNE 3413], John Wauchop [SSNE 4220], George Douglas [SSNE 2129] and William Horne [SSNE 4224].Swedish Riksarkiv, Latin registratur 1606-1609, fol. 76r, letter dated Stockholm 17 December 1609; T. Fischer, The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907), p.72.
Service record
- SWEDEN, SCOTLAND
- Arrived 1608-01-01, as OFFICER
- Departed 1609-12-31, as OFFICER
- Capacity RECRUITER, purpose MILITARY