This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DMQ.2ACIB/1108 Message Board Post: Are your Cowan ancestors married to Wheelers? I think mine are. Let me hear from you. Marjorie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/1107.1 Message Board Post: Sandy, I think I have found your Hollie with her parents in the 1910 Census. Her father is indexed by Ancestry as: Name: De witT Caroe Age in 1910: 35 Estimated birth year: abt 1875 Birthplace: Oklahoma Home in 1910: CHOUTEAU TWP, Mayes, Oklahoma Race: White Gender: Male Series: T624 Roll: 1262 Part: 2 Page: 143B Year: 1910 I'll attach a copy of the page to this post. Hope this helps, Valorie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/1107 Message Board Post: I am looking for any info. on my husbands grandmother Hollie e. Cowan born 25 Jan 1909 in Locust Grove Oklahoma do not know who her parents were. She married Louie Emmit Graham they lived in Arvin California had 8 or 9 children. She died 13 March 2001 buried inArvin District Cemetery. Thanks for any help.

Source: AYRSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: COWEN Family inc:Howat-Cree-Hamilton-Brackenbridge-Duncan Has anyone done any research on this family? I am stuck right now on this family. Thank you Debbie Michigan Descendants of Henry Cowan 1 Henry Cowan b: Abt. 1799 d: 09 Apr 1851 New Cumnock, Ayr . +Janet McKnight b: Abt. 1794 d: 13 Dec 1832 *2nd Wife of Henry Cowan: . +Jean Caldwell b: Bef. 22 Aug 1813 Sorn. Ayr, Scotland d: 15 Apr 1865 New Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland m: Aft. 1832 Father: William Caldwell Mother: Elizabeth Jamieson ...... 2 Jean Cowan b: 27 May 1834 New Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland d: Aft. 1881 .......... +James Howat b: 04 Feb 1832 Old Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland d: Aft. 1881 m: 14 Jun 1855 in New Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland Occupation: 1855 Store Keeper Father: William Howat Mother: Jean Hamilton .............. 3 Jane Howat b: 06 Mar 1856 Old Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland .............. 3 Agnes Howat b: 02 Dec 1858 Old Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland .............. 3 Agnes Howat b: 28 Dec 1859 Old Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland .............. 3 William Howat b: 22 May 1862 Old Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland .............. 3 Elizabeth Howat b: 25 Jan 1865 Old Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland .............. 3 Herris Cowan Howat b: 27 May 1867 Old Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland .................. +George Richardson Cree b: 28 Jun 1872 Kilmarnock, Ayrshire m: 16 Oct 1894 in Townhead St., Cumnock, Ayrshire Father: George Brown Cree Mother: Hannah Richardson .............. 3 Margaret Howat b: 22 Jul 1869 Old Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland .............. 3 Mary Cowan Howat b: 14 Jan 1872 Old Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland .............. 3 Jemima Howat b: 01 Jul 1874 Old Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland .............. 3 Susannah Howat b: Abt. 1877 Old Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland ...... 2 William Cowan b: Abt. 1836 d: 16 Mar 1895 New Cumnock, Ayr .......... +Susanna Hamilton b: Abt. 1847 d: 23 Jul 1897 New Cumnock, Ayr m: 06 Jul 1860 in New Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland ...... 2 Elizabeth Cowan b: Bef. 17 Aug 1837 New Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland d: Aft. 1881 .......... +James Brackenbridge b: Abt. 1827 Alloway, Ayr, Scotland d: Aft. 1881 m: 05 Jun 1860 in Afton Bridgend, New Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland Occupation: 1860 Farm Overseer Father: Henry Brackenbridge Mother: Alison Cunningham .............. 3 Henry Brackenbridge b: 18 May 1861 Maybole, Ayr .............. 3 William Brackenbridge b: 18 Dec 1863 Glasserton, Wigtown, Scotland .............. 3 James Brackenbridge b: 26 Jul 1866 Glasserton, Wigtown, Scotland .............. 3 Robert Brackenbridge b: Abt. 1870 Alloway, Ayr, Scotland ...... 2 Charles Cowan b: Abt. 1839 d: 04 Jan 1875 New Cumnock, Ayr ...... 2 Harris Cowan b: Bef. 28 Mar 1839 New Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland .......... +William Duncan b: Abt. 1841 Ellon, Aberdeen m: 21 Apr 1868 in New Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland Father: John Duncan Mother: Barbara Kennedy .............. 3 Jessie Duncan b: 06 Jun 1870 Old Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland .............. 3 William Duncan b: 15 May 1872 Old Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland .............. 3 Jean Caldwell Duncan b: 02 Jul 1874 Old Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland .............. 3 Herries Duncan b: Abt. 1878 Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland .............. 3 Henry Duncan b: Abt. 1880 Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland ...... 2 Mary Cowan b: Bef. 30 Apr 1845 New Cumnock, Ayr, Scotland

... DEATHS ... COWAN/PATTERSON, Agnes - D20/6/1846 - At Cardoness cottage, parish of Anwoth on the 20th ult., aged 94 years, after only a few hours' illness, Agnes Patterson, spouse of John Cowan, who is in the 98th year of his age, and was able to attend his wife's funeral, and at the interment laid her head in the grave. The couple had lived as man and wife together for the long period of 70 years. The old man is still in the enjoyment of good health and mental capacity, and frequently walks into Gatehouse, a distance of more than three miles. ... ==== SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE Mailing List ====

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowan, Keeler, Fellows, Sulham Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DMQ.2ACIB/1106 Message Board Post: Looking for ancestors or descendants of Isaac COWAN and Martha Ann CHRISTER (or CHRISTIE or CRISTER). Children of Isaac and Martha: - Andrew (my line) - Margaret Ann - William - Eliza - Isaac Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm happy to share what I have too. Thanks!

... DEATHS ... COWAN, Henry - D11/6/1846 - At Charlotte Street, Ayr, on the 11th inst., Henry Cowan, Esq., aged 97 years. ==== SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE Mailing List ====

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DMQ.2ACIB/1105.1 Message Board Post: Karen, I am also searching for a John Cowan who arrived in Canada from Ireland in 1852. I'm still searching, but whilst looking, I stumbled upon this information regarding the John Cowan you are looking for. I hope it's of some use: COWAN, JOHN WARREN, merchant and manufacturer; b. 1841 in Nenagh (Republic of Ireland), son of Edmund Cowan and Tryphena Clark; m. 28 March 1867 in Montreal Isabella Dimmock, daughter of Charles Dimmock of Brantford, Ont., and they had eight children, of whom two sons and two daughters survived to maturity; d. 5 April 1908 in Toronto. John Warren Cowan’s parents emigrated to the Canadas about 1852 and settled in Princeton, east of Woodstock, Upper Canada. John attended school at Princeton and completed his education at a commercial college in London. He began his business career in 1856 as a clerk in a Princeton grocery store, a position he held for eight years before venturing back to London as a clerk for a wholesale grocery firm. Three years later he located in Montreal, where he became a traveller for wholesale tea dealer John Duncan and Company. In 1876, with the confidence of 20 years’ experience, he moved to Toronto and established the wholesale tea and coffee firm of John W. Cowan and Company. By 1885 it had three travellers and was doing business throughout the province. In 1885, determined to diversify into the cocoa and chocolate trade, Cowan bought the equipment of a failed firm. Thus was born Cowan, Musgrave and Company, which many contemporaries expected would meet the fate of its predecessor. In expanding his business to include cocoa and chocolate, Cowan had entered a realm of products that required packaging for the retail trade (unlike tea and coffee, which were sold as bulk goods). Cocoa and chocolate were sold in handsome lithographed or paper-labelled tins with distinctive brand markings. Thus packaged, the products were meant to create a tie that had not existed in bulk products: the producer warranted by his brand or trade mark the quality and sometimes the quantity of his product, and the consumer, it was hoped, would acknowledge consistency and quality by loyally purchasing the brand. The advantages of packaging and brand-name advertising were, however, counterbalanced by the greater capital expenditure required. Though the record is sketchy, it would seem that Cowan did not initially adjust to or perhaps even fully understand the nature of his new business. He employed 12 to 15 workers from the start in what must have been for the time a substantial endeavour, but he was unable to generate a profit in the face of established competition. He nevertheless persevered. In 1890, with Guelph businessman John A. Wood, Cowan formed a joint-stock company, the Cowan Cocoa and Chocolate Company of Toronto Limited, and began an aggressive campaign to expand. In the following year, the firm had a booth at the Industrial Exhibition in Toronto, where consumers could assess such products as Iceland Moss Cocoa, Queen’s Dessert Chocolate, and Parisian Coffee. In 1896, at the same fair, Cowan was giving out each day “thousands” of sample cups of cocoa and souvenir boxes of chocolate ginger. The company’s name had been changed to the Cowan Company Limited in 1893, and five years later Cowan adopted the maple leaf as a brand for his products, to distinguish them as Canadian goods in competition with imports. By the turn of the century he was sending crews to show his goods in small-town grocery stores. Coupled with Cowan’s assertiveness in business was his support for tariff protection under the Conservative government’s National Policy, on which his industry depended for survival [see Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley*]. In 1890 Cowan (himself a Conservative), his partner, John A. Wood, and another entrepreneur, J. Todhunter, travelled to Ottawa to object to a rumoured reduction in the duty on cocoa imports. Such a cut would have benefited foreign manufacturers, whose packaged products had higher value and thus higher duties than the bulk cocoa that Cowan imported. The trip was unnecessary, for customs minister Mackenzie Bowell* intended to increase the duty and only a typographical error had led to the impression of a reduction. Cowan’s marketing efforts resulted in a reported fourteenfold increase in production and the construction of a modern factory in Toronto in 1904–5. By the time of his death in 1908, his products were being advertised from Halifax to Vancouver, and he had set an example of energetic competition that many other Canadian entrepreneurs were busy emulating. The company was continued under the direction of his son Herbert Norton until 1926, when it was sold to Rowntree and Company (Canada) Limited, a British firm, which maintained the Cowan line of products. John Warren Cowan had been a member of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association and the Toronto Board of Trade. An Anglican, he also belonged to the Irish Protestant Benevolent Society. As an entrepreneur, he proved capable of adapting. Despite a plodding start, he embraced new marketing and advertising techniques, and created a Canadian presence in a manufacturing field previously dominated by foreign imports.

-------Original Message------- From: Lowlandscot@aol.com Date: 04/08/05 19:11:11 To: fionak2009@yahoo.com.au Subject: Re: [D-G LIST] My Interests In a message dated 08/04/2005 08:36:06 GMT Daylight Time, fionak2009@yahoo com.au writes: This is courtesy of www.pro.gov.uk giving his war record #W097/831/81) Have been unable to get my hands on this record though, any idea how I would go about it? The records have been microfilmed but there's no link from the computer index to the actual film so it is a question of someone taking the film to a machine and making photocopies. But having said that I got one for about the same time and it gives a physical description as well as a complete resume of their army career ...no parents but the parish of birth and (in the one I got) enough information to work out their date of birth ...within a day or so. So it's a question of paying some researcher in London to do it. Can you recommend a good one? It might be worth looking for James Cowan's (Skelston) death cert post 1855 just to see if his father is also James. The only thing is that in the 1850s illegitimacy was a big 'thing' In the index books of death certificates illegitimacy was marked by a large B in the margin......... I think that sometimes relatives rather than admit a parent was illegitimate just denied knowledge of their parents....... not always but just something to bear in mind. Have taken your advise, as just happened to have bought some credits on scotlandspeople. Now that I have his death cert the plot has thickened like pea soup. His father is not James Cowan, of course not, it is William Cowan, a ploughman. However James' wife is a Margaret Currie. Did you see that my great great grandmother has a name - Susan Nicholson Jane Currie Cowan. I am wondering now if David Cowan and Mary Nicholson, may have had some sort of connection to Margaret Currie, as this all happened in Dunscore, yet David and Mary were living in Lochmaben. Thanks again for your insight. Cheers Fiona ==== DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY Mailing List ====

After receiving an enquiring relating to query in the DGFHS newsletter, thought I would post my reply to this site to see if any of the information means anything to anybody. David Cowan, son of James Cowan, a farm servant was born about 1801 at Can Mains, Dunscore. He only lived in the district for 2 years. (All this courtesy of his death cert. it was lucky for me that he died in the magical year of 1855, when they put as much info on the cert as they possibly could) In 1817 he joined the 71st Foot Regiment in the British Army, he served 22 years and was discharged in 1839 at 38 years of age. (This is courtesy of www.pro.gov.uk giving his war record #W097/831/81) Have been unable to get my hands on this record though, any idea how I would go about it? In 1841 he lived at 7 High Street, Lochmaben and his occupation was as a stockingmaker. (as per Lochmaben census booklet for 1841) On 30th January, 1846 he married Mary Nicholson, the daughter of Robert Nicholson and Susan Nicholson, yes her maiden name was Nicholson. Mary had been married previously to David Nicholson also ex army, he had served in 55th Foot Regiment and had been discharged age 42 in 1838, WO97/685/11. David Cowan was 45 years when he married Mary, they were married in the Parish of Lochmaben. David and Mary, had a daughter Susan who was born prior to the marriage on 12th January, 1845. She was named Susan Nicholson Jane Currie Cowan (some clues there). Their second daughter Helen Margaret Cowan was born on 18th November, 1849. In 1851, the family lived at Templand, Lochmaben, by this time David was 50years and was a Chelsea Pensioner, Mary was 40 years. In the house on the night of the census was an aunt - Mary Nicholson, she was a widow and aged 76 years, she was born in Lochmaben. David Cowan died at the age of 54 years on 27th April, 1855 at Tinwald after a cart of wood fell over his chest fracturing several ribs. He is buried in Lochmaben Churchyard. Mary Cowan (nee Nicholson) died 17th May, 1873 age 70 at Tundergarth. David's daughter Susan went on to have 5 children, of which one is my great grandmother. My main interest with David is to find out who his mother was. Also did he have any siblings. I have a feeling that the family on 1841 Dunscore census at Skelston are related, possibly James is a brother to David, even although it states that he is 40 years he could be between the age of 40-44 and therefore the eldest son and named after his father. I hope to hear from you soon. Kind regards Fiona DGFHS Member #4062 ==== DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY Mailing List ====

The following is information taken from the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Personnel Records fro 1865 to 1914. Calumet and Hecla was a copper mining company on the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. There are 22 records that have birthplace in a place I am fairly certain were in Dumfriesshire. There may be other towns that I don't know. These do not contain names where the birthplace is listed simply as Scotland unless I know the name has been associated with Dumfries. Data on the records is self-reported. Dates are in American format. Records contain the following fields: Last name, First name, Pay record number, Date began work, Position, Birth date, Birth place, Immigration date, Marital status, Spouse, # of Children, date of death, Cause of death, Place of death, Last employment, Reads/writes, Comments, Speaks English. Graham, John B., 11257, 7/7/1903, Hecla mine miner, 6/27/1871, Dumfrieshire, Scotland, 6//1903, s, , farmhand in Scotland, , never/not underground, yes Stewart, John B., 5950, 8/13/1898, Calumet contr. Miner, 3/8/1872, Dumfrieshire, Scotland, 8//1898, s, , , , , , Scotland, yes, , yes Wilson, William, 5952, 8/3/1898, Calumet contr. Miner, 11/25/1865, Dumfrieshire, Scotland, 8//1898, s, , , , , , Scotland, yes, , yes Wright, James, 2008, 5/11/1868, Overseer of Hecla surface, //1826, Dumfrieshire, Scotland, , m, , 5, 2/6/1900, , , , yes, private ledger, yes Wilson, William Wylie, 8550, 10/21/1899, Hecla contr. Miner, 4/9/1867, Sanquhar, cotland, 10/16/1899, m, , 1, , , , Scotland, yes, , yes Cowan, James, 3929, //1868, engineer, Frontenac, //1836, Scotland, , m, , 2, 4/31, heart disease, , , yes, , yes Grierson, James, 2003, 6//1868, overseer, Calumet surface, //1821, Scotland, , m, , 10, 4/5 1897, strangulated hernia, , , yes, , yes Grierson, William, 7757, fall 1888, machinist, //1857, Scotland, , m, , 3, 3/6/1912, , Calumet Ave. @ 6 p.m, , yes, , yes Hoatson, James, 3252, //1870, in mine, 8/6/1846, Scotland, , m, , , 6/9/1898, , , Montana, yes, private ledger, yes Lorimer, Charles, 12328, 494, S. Hecla miner, 12/1/1876, Wanlochead, Scotland, 456, s, , , , , , goldfields in Nevada, yes, McMillan, Thomas Watson, 1477, 1018, S. Hecla, 6/16/1886, Wanlochead, Scotland, 648, s, , , , , , Wanlochead, yes, never/not underground, yes Slimmon, William, 12968, 677, Red Jacket Shaft, 12/24/1877, Wanlochead, Scotland, 666, m, , 1, , , , Scotland, yes, , yes Slimmon, William D., 12964, 673, S. Hecla contr. Miner, 4/19/1875, Wanlochead, Scotland, 10//1905, m, , 1, , , , Wanlochead, , yes, , yes Williamson, Thomas, 7721, //1899, S. Hecla miner, 8/3/1877, Wanlochead, Scotland, 6/24/1899, s, , , , , , clerk in grocery store in Scotland, yes Waddell, William, 1956, 253, S. Hecla, 12/2/1880, Wanlocheed, Scotland, 247, s, , , , , , Scotland in mine, yes, , yes Dalziel, William Scott, 1476, 1018, S. Hecla mine accountant, 9/2/1878, Wanlochhead, Scotland, , s, , , , , , Lead mine, yes, , yes Kerr, Alexander, 3078, //1881, Calumet mine, 7/8/1853, Wanlockhead, Scotland s yes, loosing time drinking, yes Miller, James, 12610, 577, Calumet contract miner, 4/3/1882, Wanlockhead, Scotland, 571, s, , , , , , Scotland in mine, yes Wilson, Matthew, 10203, 1/2/1901, Hecla contr. Miner, 3/12/1866, Wanlockhead, Scotland 12//1900 m, Mary, 2 lead mine, yes, , yes Cowan, James, 16963, 2583, Osceola, 11/10/1880, Waterside, Ayrshire, Scotland, 12//1908, s Butte, MT, yes, , yes Mackay, John, 10379, 5/18/1901, machinist, 2/28/1872, Waterside, Scotland, 8/1881, m, , 1, , , , Tamarack, yes, , yes Hoatson, Thomas, 1478, 5/1/1871, head Captain of C& H mines, 3/13/1825, Waulockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, fall 1852, m, Grace Lorimer, 9, 12/19/1897, , , Ridge Mine, Ontonagon, yes, in Scotland, his name was Thomas McMillan Howatson, yes ==== DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY Mailing List ====

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/1105 Message Board Post: Does anybody know anything about this Cowan or his family? His full name is John Warren Cowan and he was married to an Isabella Dimmock. He apparently founded (with brothers) the Cowan Cocoa Company in Toronto that later merged with Rowntree. I'd appreciate any info. Thanks, Karen Toronto Star Monday, April 6, 1908 COWAN -- At his late residence, 105 St. George St., on Sunday morning, April 5, 1908, John W. Cowan. Funeral on Tuesday at 3 o'clock to Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Separate page: The death of Mr. John W. Cowan, president of the Cowan Company Limited occurred yesterday at his home, 105 St. George Street. In his 68th year, after an illness of four months; Mr. Cowan had contracted a severe cold and complications followed. Mr. Cowan was born in Tipperary County, Ireland. He came to Canada when a boy of 12, settling first in Montreal and afterward lived in London and Brantford. He came to Toronto thirty-two years ago. For some time, he carried on a tea business, and then, turning his attention the manufacture of cocoa, he founded the company of which he continued the head until his death. Mr. Cowan was a membr of the Board of Trade, the Canadian Manufacturers' Association and Irish Protestant Benevolent Assocation. He attended the Walmer Road Baptist Church and was a Conservative. Mrs. Cowan, two sons and two daughters survive. Mr. Fred W. Cowan and Mr. H.N. Cowan and Mrs. Charles T. Stark and Miss Cowan. Mr. Fred Cowan was run down by an auto recently and is in Grace Hospital suffering from a broken leg.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: STEDHAM COWAN CHRISS MCDONALD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/1104 Message Board Post: Still looking for any early info RE George STEDHAM and family. George was born in PA, Birth Year Unknown. He married about 1887-88 to Frances Rose COWAN (or CHRISS) who was b. 1870 maybe in West Virginia . They had two daughters, Lillian Georgia STEDHAM, b. 1889 TX or NM, and Hazel Beatrice STEDHAM - - aka Bertha - - , b. 1890 TX. I think this was in or near El Paso. George STEDHAM died sometime between early 1890s and 1900 and his wife Frances Rose remarried to John MCDONALD by 1900. Frances Rose, her second husband John MCDONALD and her two daughters relocated to Arizona and then later, in the 1930s moved to Los Angeles, CA. Found among old family belongings is an old family group photo. It is suspected that it is a photo of my grandmother's people - - as above, Hazel Beatrice STEDHAM, aka Bertha, whose father was George STEDHAM. The photo isn't in very good condition, but the faces of most still pictured can be viewed using a zoom w/a picture viewer or some kind of photoshop program. There is some writing on the photo which reads as follows: the old man sitting...."granddad" the old lady sitting....."grandma" the man standing behind granddad....."papa" If anyone would like to see this photo, please contact me at Nora31@aol.com.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bennett Cowan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/1103 Message Board Post: Could anyone please help me fine evidence of the line before Grace Cowan and her husband John Bennett? They had at least one child, Elizabeth Hannah Bennett who was born in 1847 in England. Any help would be appreciated, Frances

At 10:25 AM 3/28/05, Karen Bell <jessandrak@netscape.net> wrote: >I have been researching my Cowan ancestors who lived in Tipperary and >emigrated to Canada in 1827. > >We have recently discovered a document saying that they were originally of >Scottish descent which puts a whole new aspect on our research. We don't >know where to begin as we have no idea when the Cowan family left Scotland >for Ireland. If your COWANS came from Scotland, it is most likely that they crossed the Irish Sea to what is now Northern Ireland. From there, they could migrate south to Tipperary. COWAN was not an uncommon name in Wigtownshire, which is the southwest tip of Scotland -- about 20 miles across the Irish Sea from Co. Down. The Irish and Scots have crossed back and forth across the Irish Sea for many generations ( http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~leighann/county/travel.html ). Just to the north of Wigtownshire is Ayrshire, yet another jumping off point. To Wigtownshire's east are Kirkcudbrightshire and then Dumfriesshire. All of these shires and more sent migrants to Ireland. You may recall the June/July 2002 posts where a Cowan link to Stirling was revealed: look for cscunc and jcmaclay posts at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/COWAN/ -- http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/COWAN/2002-06/1024264775 is a good place to start. (I should clarify here that I'm using the old shire nomenclature. For instance, when Scotland reorganized its political boundaries in the last century, Wigtownshire, Kirkcudbrightshire -- or more correctly, the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright -- and Dumfriesshire became Dumfries and Galloway. Galloway was Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire.) I do a lot of research in Wigtownshire and a tiny bit in Kirkcudbrightshire and Ayrshire. (I'm sure I've bored most COWAN listers to a snore with my postings of COWAN birth-marriage-death transcripts from the 19th century Wigtown Free Press.) The SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE listers have a terrific web site at http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~leighann/index.html -- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~leighann/tutorial/research.html will get you started. Some of it applies to Scotland in general. Before 1841 when the first viable census was taken, research can be tough. Have you checked the online IGI at http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true ? You might get lucky because Scottish parish records often yield clues, if not answers ( http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~leighann/oprs/intro.html ). Also, many of the Wigtownshire graves were transcribed some years ago before they became as unreadable as they are now. If you have some specific names, I can check the few transcripts that I have. Alternatively, you can request a lookup via: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~leighann/chapple/mi2.html . Other cemetery transcriptions are available, too. Just let me know if you're interested. Lastly, there are lots of Scottish mailing lists where you may get more help: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ . I know how hard you search may be because my MAXWELLs probably moved from Scotland to Northern Ireland during the Ulster Plantation and were in the U.S. by 1740. Needless to say, I've yet to place them in Ireland, much less in Scotland. So best of luck -- I'm happy to help more if I can. Mary Richardson

The US Census Bureau has placed the 1790 US census online for viewing and downloading in PDF or zip file format, by state. http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/1790.htm I've recently discovered AllCensusRecords.com, another service from the Olive Tree Genealogy. It has links to USA Census Records, Canadian Census Records, Census Indexes & Images, Census Transcriptions, Blank Census Forms, City Directories, Tax & Assessment Lists, Voters Registrations, Veterans Census, and Questions on Census Records. http://allcensusrecords.com/ Happy Spring, Valorie Searching Census: http://valoriez.blogspot.com/2003/12/searching-census.html

I have been researching my Cowan ancestors who lived in Tipperary and emigrated to Canada in 1827. We have recently discovered a document saying that they were originally of Scottish descent which puts a whole new aspect on our research. We don't know where to begin as we have no idea when the Cowan family left Scotland for Ireland. Would anyone be able to help me? Thanks, Karen -- Ihre bevorzugten Shops, hilfreiche Einkaufs-Hilfen und großartige Geschenk Ideen. Erleben Sie das Vergnügen online einzukaufen mit Shop@Netscape! http://shopping.netscape.de/shopping/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DMQ.2ACIB/1101.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi there, Ok - I take it you mean Ayr in Ayrshire. I don't think I have links in Ayrshire - most of mine seem to be in the Borders or Fife, but it all depends as families did move around quite a bit. I will do some digging and email you. Cheers, Clare

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/1101.1.1 Message Board Post: Ary is Ayshire Scotland. e-mail me at shu@adelphia.net and I will send you more info.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COWAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DMQ.2ACIB/1101.1 Message Board Post: Hi there, I have a couple of links to different Cowans in Scotland but I'm afraid I don't know where Ary is. Can you give me more information on what part of Scotland this is? Thanks, Clare