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The male guests at the wedding of Robert Cochrane and Kate Boon - 1929
Location No 11 Cromer Hyde Lane
Back row: ? Robert Cochrane (b. 1902) ? ? James Cochrane (b.1898) ? ?
Middle row: ? William Cochrane (b.1895) John Hasley (b.1865) George Boon (b.1872)
Front row: ? John Cochrane (b.1920)
David Cochrane 1883 -1917 – Killed in the Great War with wife & Child -Image 1910 Hertford
David Cochrane 1884 – 1917: Born at Handside, David was the youngest son of Robert and Marion Cochrane. He lived in Lemsford as a boy and started at St Johns school at Lemsford in 1886. In 1911, he was living in Hertford and was married with a one year old daughter. His wife Ada Maud was born in Stanborough. On the 5th of July 1917 aged 33 David was killed in action on the Arras sector and has no known grave. He is commememorated on the Arras Memorial in Fauberg – d’Amiens Cemetery near Arras.
Lemsfod FC in 1920 - Bill Cochrane back row 6 from the left
Image donated by Hatfield Library
Back row: Sam Welch; Alf Taylor; Geo Rosher; Arthur Flitney; reg Taylor; Bill Cochrane; Percy White ? Bill Hale
Front Row Bert Hornett; Fred Wren: Archie Cowland; Percy Wright; ? Bob Sear; Arthur Eagles
John Cochrane on Prince - 1920
Image donated by Hatfield Library
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Cochrane's coal cart, with John Cochrane astride Prince, outside Cochranes coal Merchants.
The Row, Hatfield Hyde. William Cochran started his coal business at the sidings near the Woodman Pub
Jack & Lucy Cochrane with their 4 sons in 1910
Location is outside 40 Lemsford Village
Back row: Jack; William; Lucy. Front row: James; David; Robert
Jack was working for Mr Hill of Lemsford Mill at the time. His eldest son John was in Canada
Jack & Lucy Cochrane with sons & grandaughter in 1952
Jack & Lucy Cochrane with their sons Rob, Will and Jim and their granddaughter Lucy-Jean. Photographg taken in side their cottattage at cromer hyde in 1952. Lucy-Jean is the daughter of David Cochrane (b.1903) who lived in Alberta, Canada from 1920
Jack & Lucy Cochrane with cup won at Hertfordshire show in 1920's
Over the years Jack & Lucy Cochrane exhibited and won prizes for flowers, fruit and vegitables at the Hertfordshire shows, the Brocket estate shows and elsewhere. The suppliedWelwyn Department stores with flowers, fruit and vegitables fromthe late 1930's to early 1950's
Betty Cochrane nee beech, born Wheathampdstead in 1909 - Died in 1979.
She Worked at Brocket House (See 1923 image in this slide show) after leaving school. She accompanied staff to Scotland and other
places when the Brockets went on holiday.
She married James Cochrane and lived in WGC after her marriage
Nos 26 & 28 Lemsford Village - Robert & Marion Cochrane House - 1990
Robert & Marion Cochrane lived in the 3rd Riverside Cottage from Lemsford Mill, now No 28 Lemsford Village. New porches have been added
to both cottages and No 28 has been extensively altered since this photograph was taken
The wedding of Robert Cochrane and lily angell at St Etheldreada's church Hatfield 1939.
Front row: Rev Lush; Phylis Angell; Robert Cochrane; Lily Angell; Joan Palmer
Back row: Guy Hall William Cochrane; Edward Angell
Guests at the wedding of Kate Boon & Robert Cochrane - 1929
The photograph was taken in front of No 11 Cromer Hyde.
Back row: ? ? James Cochrane; Mrs Aurthur
Middle row: ?;?;?; Lucy Cochrane; Kate Boon(Bride) Robert Cochrane (Groom); Addy Cochrane
Front row: ?;?;?;
Top Left to right: James Cochrane 1881 - 1967 William Cochrane 1876 - 1945 Marion Gibbon's nee Cochrane 1874 - 1944
Bottom Left to right John Cochrane 1871 - 1957 Margaret Enkel nee cochrane 1868 - 1945 Lucy Cochrane nee Halsey c 1930
Top left to right: David Cochrane 1903 - Robert Cochrane 1902 - 1982 James Cochrane 1898 -1982
Bottom left to right: William Cochrane 1893 - 1916 John Cochrane 1893 -1916 Annie ward nee Cochrane 1886 - 1952
Brocket Hall - Early evidence suggests the house dates back to 1239
Early evidence suggests the house dates back to 1239. Joan De Fauconberg Married in 1393 To Thomas Brocket 1383 – 1431
(The First Brocket in Herts) The Brockets originated from Yorkshire and had No Children. The Brockets ended when Mary Brocket in 1597 marries Sir Thomas Reade (1545 – 1604). 1921 the house was bought by Sir Charles Nall Cain who bought the title Lord Brocket from Lloyd George in 1933. Above image is Brocket Hall Staff in 1924
Shirley Knapp (nee Cochrane) is a leading member of Lemsford Local History group and has provided more memories and images for our archive than any other member. When we asked her for her memories of WW1 that were passed onto her she produced a comprehensive, personal and loving recollections of her family, she bought them all to life for this generation. Her first article ‘Cochrane family Loss & Grief,’ deals with the reality and hardship of WW1 to a close country family. Her articles about the members who died, wounded and returned give a feel for the times. Her images provide us with an idea of what those times were like to live through. – Thank you Shirley To find full list of Census entriesClick Here
James Halsey 1875 – 1916 – Killed in the Great War
James Halsey was born in 1875 in Welwyn, Hertfordshire. In 1881, he was living with his family in London Road, Welwyn where his father, Thomas Halsey, was a Woodman. By 1901, James was a Domestic Footman living and working in the home of a Mining Engineer in Bletchingley, Surrey.
In 1909, James set sail from Liverpool to Quebec in Canada on board the Empress of Britain arriving on 17 September 1909. The manifest describes his occupation as a Coachman. On 19 May 1915, James now age 40 enlisted into the Canadian Armed Forces (Service No 435211), in Calgary. He was described as a Foreman and his next of kin was Mrs L Cochrane, his sister, who by now was married to John Cochrane, a Flour Mill Waggoner living in Lemsford.
On the morning of June 2, 1916, the Germans mounted an attack to dislodge the Allies from their positions at Mount Sorrel just north of the Ypres-Menin road. In the fiercest bombardment yet experienced by Canadian Troops, whole sections of trench were obliterated and the defending garrisons annihilated. Human bodies and even the trees of Sanctuary Wood were hurled into the air by the explosions. By evening, the enemy advance was checked, but the important vantage points of Mount Sorrel and Hills 61 and 62 were lost. A counter-attack by the Canadians the next morning failed; and on June 6, after exploding four mines on the Canadian front, the Germans assaulted again and captured Hooge on the Menin Road. At Mount Sorrel Canadian troops suffered 8,430 casualties. On the first day of this attack, James Halsey as a Lance Corporal, Service No 435211, of the 49th Canadian Infantry was killed and is buried in the Divisional Collecting Post Cemetery and Extension near Ypres (Leper).
Note on the back of the above image of Jim Halsey ( Photo in the possession of Shirley Knapp). ‘ Dads uncle Jim Halsey, died in Bethune 1916 in the Canadian Army. He lived in Calgary, Western Canada, at the outbreak of the First World War. Our eldest brother, John Cochrane lived with him for a short time trekked, 500 miles into the Peace River County and was drowned trying to save a friend. Dad’
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The Lemsford Local History Group, formed in 2001, is interested in all aspects of the history and the people of this area - both ancient and modern. We welcome correspondence from anyone who shares this interest.The group archives now include a significant number of photographs and documents, as well as records of baptisms (to 1985), marriages (to 1970), burials (to 2003) and memorial inscriptions (to 2003) from the St John's parish church registers. Records of births, marriages and deaths before the consecration of the church in 1859 will be found in the registers of Bishop's Hatfield parish. The archive also contains admission records for the village school - St. John's Church of England Junior Mixed Infants school - since it was first opened in 1872
