MISS ADELINE MARTIN wrote: > Hi > I have been researching a distant in-law family and came across the Christian name of > Cobden that I have never seen or heard of before and thought that it was a misspelling. In Ancestry Census 1851 she is a male, in the 1861 she is female and in 1871 she is listed as female patient in the insane asylum. > I then went to LDS to see what her name was and that was even more surprising as it was down as Cobden Bright Frost Gerrard born Jan. 19,1847 King Edward, Aberdeen. > Knowing things are not always right with Ancestry and LDS sites I pulled up the Death Reg. from Scotlandspeople and lo and behold her name really was Cobden,the sad part being that she died age 28 at the insane asylum. > I wonder has anyone else ever heard of this name. Never heard of it. But I know someone who would be interested to hear of it, namely Ray Hennessy, who runs the Scottish Forenames website at: http://www.whatsinaname.net/ I suggest you send him a message. Gavin Bell