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Isabella (Murray) Cocking ( Sharp 1817 - 1898

Isabella (Murray) Cocking was born in 1817 at Roxburgh in Scotland United Kingdom to Andrew Murray and Isabel Cranston, and had siblings William Murray, Robert Murray, and Andrew Murray.. She married Robert Cocking, and they had children Amelia Isabella (Cocking) Laurie and Andrew Cocking. She also married Nehemiah Sharp, and they had children Robert Nehemiah Sharp and William Morgan Sharp. Isabella Cocking died at age 80 years old on November 20, 1898 in Coburg North, VIC Australia, and was buried at Coburg Cemetery in Preston, Darebin City County.

Isabella (Murray) Cocking

1817

Roxburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom

November 20, 1898

Coburg North, VIC, 3058, Australia

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The Mercury & Weekly Courier, Collingwood & Fitzroy, Feb. 1879. COBURG- Tuesday. Isabella Cocking fined 5s, for letting her cattle to wander.
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Roxburgh in Scotland United Kingdom

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1898

Death

November 20, 1898

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Coburg North, VIC 3058, Australia
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Coburg Cemetery in Preston, Darebin City County, VIC 3058, Australia
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Obituary

The Argus, Melbourne, Tuesday 22 November 1898. COCKING.- ( nee Sharp ), at her late residence, "Ferniehurst," Spry road, North Coburg, Isabella, beloved wife of the late Robert Cocking, and mother of Robert Sharp and Andrew and Amelia J. Cocking. Aged 81years, a colonist of 59 years. The Coburg Leader, Sat. 26 November, 1898. One of the oldest and most respected inhabitants of Coburg, who has watched the progress of the colony for the past 59 years, in the person of Mrs. Isabella Cocking, ( nee Sharp ), the beloved wife of the late Robert Cocking, passed peacefully away at her residence, Spry's road, Coburg, where she has resided for 51 years. The deceased was 81 years of age, and her remains were interred in the Coburg Cemetery on Tuesday.

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Isabella (Murray) Cocking ( Sharp lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.

The average age of a Murray family member is 72.

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In 1817, in the year that Isabella (Murray) Cocking ( Sharp was born, King Ferdinand VII of Spain - who ruled Cuba - issued a royal decree that made the production and sale of tobacco a legal endeavor in Cuba. The decree created the birth of the Cuban cigar industry.

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In 1855, when she was 38 years old, on November 17th, David Livingstone, a Scottish missionary and explorer, became the first known European to see Victoria Falls. He named the falls in honor of Queen Victoria but locally it was - and is - Mosi-oa-Tunya, which means "The Smoke That Thunders".

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