Douglas
Cobcroft
Born in Apia, Samoa
Ancestors 
Brother of
Brian Cobcroft, Winifred Dorothy Cobcroft, Millie (Cobcroft) O'Reilly, Joan Cobcroft and Denbie Cobcroft
Died
at age 5
in Apia, Samoa
Profile last modified
| Created 4 Jan 2015
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Biography
Douglas Cobcroft was born in 1917. Douglas was the child of Alan Cobcroft and Winifred Heatherington-Carruthers.
Douglas Cobcroft died young.
Douglas died at the age of 5 years and 4 months after having fallen from the wharf at Mulifanua and been attacked by a shark.
Burial
(BG) European Cemetery (Tuamasaga, Samoa)
Epitaph
In Loving memory of DOUGLAS COBCROFT who died at Mulifanua Nov 1922 aged 5 years and 4 months, So loved, So Mourned.
Sources
Birth Stated on AR Cobcroft's Military record
1917 - Birth - "Samoa, Vital Records, 1846-1996", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D95-3LZT : 18 November 2021), Douglas Cabcroft, 1917.
1917 - Baptism - "Samoa Baptisms, 1863-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4GRM-KMT2 : 19 December 2019), Douglas Cobcroft, 1917.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Douglas by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Douglas by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Alan Cobcroft
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 67 markers, haplogroup G-M201, FTDNA kit #IN32456, MitoYDNA ID T16882 [compare] - Peter Cobcroft :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup G-M201, FTDNA kit #765817
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~25.00%
Alan Cobcroft :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member wisperhawk
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T023205 [compare], yourDNAportal ALAf7858f2d, FTDNA kit #IN32456
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~0.78%
Keena (Shannon) Hudson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A622359 [compare], Ancestry member Kikeena
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