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Thomas Cobern, Cape Town
« on: Tuesday 25 July 17 23:11 BST (UK) »
Hi everyone,

I'm looking for Thomas Cobern who I believe married in 1828 in Cape Town and died in 1854. I'm sure he could be from England c1794. He was a Captain and appears on several searches for baptisms/deaths. I'm not sure if the father's details are on the marriage, or any reference to relatives. Not sure how SA records differ from UK ones. Only checking as he's showing as a DNA match but want to check everything first before making contact. Any help with him would be great. Not sure if any Master Mariner records are in existence  for him also.

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Re: Thomas Cobern, Cape Town
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 26 July 17 09:13 BST (UK) »
There is a will in the Cape Archives but not a Death Notice
MOOC   7/1/221   167   COBERN, THOMAS. WILL.   1854   1854
This document is not on-line you could contact the archive and ask for a copy. They charge a nominal fee, which may be difficult to pay from overseas.
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Cape Town Archives Repository
Postal address: Private Bag X9025, CAPE TOWN 8000
Street address: 72 Roeland Street, CAPE TOWN
Tel: (021) 466 8100. Fax: (021) 465 2960.
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Re: Thomas Cobern, Cape Town
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 26 July 17 10:58 BST (UK) »
Thank you, I'll send them an email to enquire about it.

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Re: Thomas Cobern, Cape Town
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 26 July 17 11:55 BST (UK) »
I found this. I have transcribed all the BMDs and other snippets from issues of The South
African Commercial Advertiser held at Kew (1824-1856) and these are on line
with a search engine at http://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/

As so many mariners went via the Cape en route to India and Australia a fair
few of them got married or died at the Cape, so I have extracted information
on known mariners. I may have missed a few, and there may well be others who
can be found on the eggsa site who are mentioned by name only, so it is
worth a look if you had mariners on this route. Military/East India Company
personnel have already been extracted to the FIBIS site. I haven't included
deaths of passengers on board but there is the odd passenger mentioned in
the longer extracts here, which I have included because crew members are
also mentioned. Below are extracts from CO53/11 at Kew, covering 1854-1855 and CO53/12
(1856). Initial dates are issue dates of the paper where the extract was
found. Original papers at Kew stop at this date and so I have not been able
to continue further, although there are later copies of SACA at Colindale.

Sue Mackay
Cardiff

DEATH
Dec 13: Captain Thomas COBERN, Master Mariner, aged 60 years 8 months and 12
days.Tuesday 30 January 1855.

DEATH
Jan 27: Margaret Wilhelmina Hendrina, daughter of Mr. Thomas COBERN, aged 14 months.

Saturday 24 February 1855.
Austin, Ayling, Alborough, Bescoby, Cheal, Groom,Rathbone,Tarboton,Lyell and Smith.


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Re: Thomas Cobern, Cape Town
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 26 July 17 12:10 BST (UK) »
Thank you for that. That's given me something to work on. I'm pretty sure I'm on the right track to connect this Thomas Cobern to my family connections.

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Re: Thomas Cobern, Cape Town
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 26 July 17 12:42 BST (UK) »
Strange I found this as well.
DEPOT     KAB                                                                   
SOURCE    MOOC                                                                 
TYPE      LEER                                                                 
VOLUME_NO 6/9/24557                                                             
SYSTEM    01                                                                   
REFERENCE 3009/58                                                               
PART      1                                                                     
DESCRIPTION          COBERN, MARGARET. ESTATE PAPERS.                                     
STARTING  19580000                                                             
ENDING    19580000.

Who is Margaret? Might be worth applying for this one as well.
Austin, Ayling, Alborough, Bescoby, Cheal, Groom,Rathbone,Tarboton,Lyell and Smith.

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Re: Thomas Cobern, Cape Town
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 17 August 17 08:53 BST (UK) »
Hi Browny1,

My name is Thomas Cobern, I have tracked my name back to Captain Thomas Cobern who sailed into Perth Australia then went to Darwin for awhile then back to Cape town. Their is a family in Darwin who are Cobern. we all come from Cape Town Cobern. so he must had a few wives on his journey. Captain Thomas Cobern is in the Fremantle Maritime Museum.