Patrick Cockburn

Alison Rutherford was married in the parish church at Ormiston in East Lothian (where her husband's family owned its estate) to Patrick Cockburn , a lawyer and later an estate manager.

Patrick Cockburn (whose health had always been fragile) died at Musselburgh of bowel disease, leaving AC to live as a widow for forty years.

AC and her husband , who had fallen desperately ill with a bowel complaint, left their friendly landlord's house near Glasgow and travelled by carriage through the falling snow to a rented house at Musselburgh...

Patrick Cockburn 's elder brother had sold the family estates, to pay off debts, in 1748; hence the need for Patrick to find employment. Patrick had saved the duke once before 1750, by preventing him...