Michael, Not to add fuel to any statements or start a long thread, but I think this is a fine forum to express the things that you have stated below. I know that I feel differently than most people on having my personal information posted, but that comes from being in "Cowans From County Down" by Fleming since 1970ish!!! It has never harmed me or my family and I have tracked down many family members from the information that is in his book. I have had more problems from people that had access to my Social Security Number from a business deal than any information that has been posted on a genealogy site or in a family history book. I have much family information posted on my Silver Family and I have never heard of anyone having problems with that, but after some complaints our family data base that was password protected had to have some changes made to keep everyone happy. That problem was more from people stealing the info and using it in their published information. The Silver Family has a lot of interesting family history. For many of you that do not already know, your list manager is the 4th great granddaughter of an ax murderer. Frankie Stewart Silver was hung in NC for having chopped up her husband and burning him in the fireplace. The "Ballad of Frankie Silver " was published about five years ago - it has a lot of family history within its pages. Oh, by the way Charlie Silver was my 4th great grandfather - my line comes from their daughter Nancy Silver. This family has had many family histories written - with and without permission and I do not know of anyone that has ever had a problem. <g> My only problem is that once someone has your information incorrect, it gets passed all around incorrect and becomes almost impossible to correct. So my feelings are probably very different from the average person and I have very close friends that do not share my same feelings. I know that most of the information can be located and people are better off giving the information so that it is correct. One example of this problem of incorrect information. One of my dear cousins tried for several years to get my mother to give her some family history, she refused, so my cousin posted what her mother had given her. When my mother got a copy of the Thomas Family History, my grandmother was listed as dead - she died about 10 years later. When my mother read this incorrect information, she had a "hissy" fit. Now, correcting this mistake gave me the change to meet a cousin that I had never known. This cousin took me to my first Silver Family Reunion and has passed wonderful information on to me. Bottom line - if you want it correct, supply the information. Now this does not mean that I think those that want their information kept private should not have their request honored, but give some one in the family a GEDCOM or family information with the current info marked private and listen to how they fuss!!!!!!!!! <g> As a side note for those that do not know Dr. Cole, his website is worth checking out!!!! http://www.theColeFamily.com/hobby He has done an excellent service for researchers by publishing his findings. 50 years from now, his work will be a really big help to many young researchers as I am sure that many researchers today are pleased with the contents of Cowan Book. He is a walking book of knowledge on many surnames and he like each of you has the right to express his feelings. This is a little long winded, but I felt that it was a topic worth posting a reply. Now, for those that do not want to follow this thread please delete. <g> Thanks, Michael for sharing your thoughts on this subject. Laura Cowan Cooper List Manager At 05:18 PM 3/14/02 -0600, you wrote: >This is probably not a good forum to discuss this (and the issue certainly >won't be settled), but genealogy is not just a study of people who lived >more than 70 years ago. I've been actively working on my family tree for >almost 28 years. (I've had plenty of time to think about this.) Just >about everything in my computer database of over 83,000 people can be >obtained from PUBLIC records. > >The most accurate information about your immediate family should come from >you. But if you refuse to give it to me because of "privacy" concerns, I >assure you that I'll eventually find someone among your relatives who >aren't so anxious about these mostly imagined evil possibilities that have >an extremely low probability. My biggest concern with getting information >from your friendly cousin is that the vital statistics they share on your >family will be less accurate and less complete than what you could have >provided if you weren't so paranoid. > >Just because someone else will do something illegal with something good >that I've accumulated DOES NOT in any way suggest that I've done anything >wrong. We shouldn't be trying to make genealogists feel guilty about >enjoying their hobby. > >I'll continue to post the dates and places of births and marriages and >deaths for my family on the "world's bulletin board" and wouldn't hesitate >to do the same at the local grocery store. My household will not live in >fear. There are risks in life that are worth taking. (Haven't your >ancestors taught you that?) Let's not turn genealogy into just a study of >dead people. Personally, I much better enjoy the living people I've found >through my life-long hobby of genealogy. And it's exciting to think of >those I'll yet get to meet who share an interest in my family heritage. > >Very sincerely, >~~Michael S. Cole, M.D. > >Michael Steven COLE, M.D. >born: 28 Apr 1955, Harrison, Boone Co., AR >married: 16 Aug 1975, Searcy, White Co., AR >living: Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., AR > >http://www.theColeFamily.com/hobby > > >==== COWAN Mailing List ==== >Messages sent to this list will be archived. Do not send copyrighted >material or anything that you do not want available for public viewing >(your name & address, for example).

I'd appreciate it if anyone has data they'd share about Henderson family data. Thank you. F. Robert Henderson

A couple of recent posts by Robert Cowan about the Laggan area in Northern Ireland and the Seige of Derry brought to my mind an old chestnut of research that was first published in Boston in 1910, "Scotch Irish Pioneers In Ulster and America by Charles Knowles Bolton." In the chapter on the "Pennsylvania Scotch Irish," Bolton writes that the migration of Presbyterians to Chester County, Pennsylvania began in1719 and that by 1722 they had developed sufficient political clout "to obtain the name Donegal for their township." "The place names in old Chester County, Pennsylvania, such as Derry, Donegal and Toboyne, suggest that the early emigrants came for the most part from lands west of the River Foyle." The Foyle is the river between the province of Donegal and the province of Londonderry. Hello. Isn't this exactly what Robert is saying, that we need to look here for our ancestral sources? This is a quote from 1910. Well, I am a little behind on my research, too. I have done my work in the Ulster provinces of Northern Ireland, but I have focused too narrowly on Cowan and McClay to the exclusion of the associated families. I can go back, I can RE - SEARCH, I can look again. You can, too. I was born in Cowansville in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. There are all sorts of Donegals and Derrys around home so I kind of snooze over those names. But Toboyne is an eye opener. It is one of the townlands in the Laggan area of Donegal. It is where the Laggan Presbytery had a meeting house and the names of several of its members are in those old synod records of the Laggan Presbytery. You are wasting your time on the internet, using the IGI, you've got to go to where the info is. There couldn't have been more than 100 souls living there in the early 1700's. If your name is there, you've got a Bingo, maybe not the Jackpot but you are pulling in chips. Bolton then goes on to identify the names of the landholders in Chester County before 1735. If your name is here (and of course COWAN is) you need to be looking in Donegal and Derry: " Craigheads, Cooksons, McCawleys, Storys, Greens, Blacks, Steels, Montgomerys, McCardys, Templemans, McConnels, McNealys, McClellands, Sherrards, Stinsons, McKimms, Dyers, Lambs, Bishops, McPhersons, Robinsons, Murrays, Bensons, Blyths, Alisons, McClenns, Shennon, McClures, Hughesses, Duffields, Crawfords, Dennys, Scotts, Pennocks, Blackshaws, Buchannans, Gilmores, Musgroves, Higgenbothems, Livingtons, Painters, Saunderses, Stileses, Watsons, Webbs, Irwins, Palmers, Owens, Pendails, Thornburys, Marshalls, Jacksons, Beesons, Nessleys, Herseys, Astons, Steers, McNabbs, Smiths, Lindseys, Longs, Kings, Moores, Fullertons, Francises, McKanes, Douglases, Darbys, Knowleses, McClanaghans, Burtons, Gales, Cowens and others." Remember, this is Bolton's complete list, not mine. I have Gilmores and Crawfords in my lines in addition to Cowan and it was only "Cowen" I saw the first time through. Finally, Bolton tells us that the first Presbyterian preacher on the Elk and Brandywine Rivers was Rev. George Gillespie, "a Scotch preacher [who] had ridden from house to house on his lonely circuit as early as 1713...." The purchasers of the land for the first church were: John Kirkpatrick, James Houston, James Mole, William Smith, Magnus Simonson, Ananias Higgins, John Heath and Patrick Scott. The surnames of the members of the Upper Octorara Church before 1750 were: Alison, Blelock, Boggs, Boyd, Boyle, Clingan, Cochran, Cowan, Dickey, Filson, Fleming, Gardner, Glendenning, Hamill, Henderson, Heslep, Hope, Kerr, Kyle, Liggett, Lockhart, Luckey, McAllister, McNeil, McPherson, Mitchell, Moody, Park, Richmond, Robb, Rowan, Sanford, Scott, Sharpe, Sloan, Smith, Stewart, Summeril, Wiley, Wilkins, and Wilson. In the Rev. Fleming's book I recall reading about Cowans and Dickeys intermarrying someplace in western North Carolina so in this RE - SEARCH I am not surprised to see the pairing of the names. What does surprise is that the preacher in the Rich Hill Associate Presbyterian church in 1814 which was founded by my 5th great grandfather John Cowan, was William Dickey, and this is in Cowansville, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Not Chester County, Pennsylvania or Salisbury in Rowan Couny North Carolina. The point is, these families stuck to each other like molassas on a biscuit. By the bye, in the list of Ruling Elders and Commissioners in the Laggan Presbytery book between 1672 and 1700, for Taboyn, we find among others ... Alex. Houston, Robert Cowan. jcmaclay John Cowan MacLay "Oorsels, and wha's like us!"

Bravo !! after 26+ years at this I couldn't agree more . ida williams macken - pa ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael S. Cole, M.D. To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 6:18 PM Subject: [COWAN-L] genealogy privacy concerns This is probably not a good forum to discuss this (and the issue certainly won't be settled), but genealogy is not just a study of people who lived more than 70 years ago. I've been actively working on my family tree for almost 28 years. (I've had plenty of time to think about this.) Just about everything in my computer database of over 83,000 people can be obtained from PUBLIC records. The most accurate information about your immediate family should come from you. But if you refuse to give it to me because of "privacy" concerns, I assure you that I'll eventually find someone among your relatives who aren't so anxious about these mostly imagined evil possibilities that have an extremely low probability. My biggest concern with getting information from your friendly cousin is that the vital statistics they share on your family will be less accurate and less complete than what you could have provided if you weren't so paranoid. Just because someone else will do something illegal with something good that I've accumulated DOES NOT in any way suggest that I've done anything wrong. We shouldn't be trying to make genealogists feel guilty about enjoying their hobby. I'll continue to post the dates and places of births and marriages and deaths for my family on the "world's bulletin board" and wouldn't hesitate to do the same at the local grocery store. My household will not live in fear. There are risks in life that are worth taking. (Haven't your ancestors taught you that?) Let's not turn genealogy into just a study of dead people. Personally, I much better enjoy the living people I've found through my life-long hobby of genealogy. And it's exciting to think of those I'll yet get to meet who share an interest in my family heritage. Very sincerely, ~~Michael S. Cole, M.D. Michael Steven COLE, M.D. born: 28 Apr 1955, Harrison, Boone Co., AR married: 16 Aug 1975, Searcy, White Co., AR living: Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., AR http://www.theColeFamily.com/hobby ______________________________

When trying to understand the family history most of us start with the two obvious examples; for the Walkers it is "The Descendants of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland." by Emma White and for the Cowans it is "The Cowans from County Down," by John Fleming. We eagerly try to connect to a published source in hopes of making our genealogical quest an easy one. Sometimes it works out and other times it is a frustrating journey that never seems to end. Sometimes we are side-tracked along the way by really interesting history and this becomes almost as fascinating as the search for our ancestors. I have found the Siege of Londonderry to be the event which holds me spellbound. During the last year or so when I have felt like standing over a copy machine, several research documents have been offered to the group that I thought were important in gaining knowledge of our migration from Ulster to here, wherever here is for you. It could be Virginia, Carolina, Tennessee or points west, but the information seemed always to lead to Ulster. Castles's Woods: Frontier Virginia Settlement, 1769-1799 by Hagy focused on the early southwest Virginia history of our families. A trip to the library for a look at "The Tinkling Spring, Headwater of Freedom," by Wilson and perhaps "Carolina Cradle," by Ramsey pushed back the clock to the early-mid 1700's. The two Lecky books on the Laggan presbytery helped bridge that difficult gap between Northern Ireland and America. The last offering before John and I go to Londonderry and Belfast in May will give the researcher the information necessary to complete his or her education on this Irish genealogical journey. "A History of the Siege of Londonderry and Defence of Enniskillen in 1688 and 1689," with Historical Poetry and Biographical Notes, & by the Reverend John Graham, M.A., Rector of Migilligan, in the Diocese of Derry The Battles of the Boyne, Athlone, and Aughrim, the Siege and Capitulation of Limmerick, by Lord McCaulay., Toronto, MacClear & Co. Publishers, 1869. They don't make titles of books like that any more! I sacrificed my copy to the copy machine as it was in poor condition and now it is for all purposes destroyed, but it copied really well. The last document before our trip, offered with the hopes some will become experts and eventually begin new carees as history teachers!! >From the forward we read the following: "In bringing out a new edition of Mr. Graham's narrative of the Siege of Derry, and enhancing its value by descriptions from Lord Macaulay's graphic pen, the publishers conceive that they are conferring a benefit upon the reading public of Canada-for the events which these pages record are such as we do not willingly let die. Apart altogether from the political and religious aspects of the question, the romance of history never had a fairer theme. Truth is proverbially stranger than fiction, and never did the all-exiting elements of truth gather in sterner compression than around these memorable hundred days. What fiction ever imagined excitements and sensations more thrilling? and yet they are no morbid fancies of the distempered brain, but events which actually happened, events from whose enactment and results, the destinies of a nation were changed." Remember that LONG poem I posted to the group about the Siege of Derry and the people who defended? This poem is included with about seventy pages of follow-up by the Rev. Graham on the genealogies of these people, really interesting stuff. Its a long book, 316 pages and I will make copies for those interested. Contact me at [email protected] for details and I look forward to the Derry trip with great anticipation. I will be accompanied by an outstanding researcher, Mr. John Giacoletti from Largo, Florida and we will be spending our time equally between Derry/Donegal and PRONI in Belfast. Our findings will be posted to the lists upon our return. Regards, Robert Cowan "Our fathers, who lived under the dread of Popery and arbitrary power, are, most of them, gone off the stage, and have carried with them the experience which we their sons stand in need of, to make us ernest to preserve the blessings of liberty and pure religion which they have bequeathed to us. Oh that I had words to represent to the present generation the miseries which their fathers underwent, that I could describe their fears and anxieties, their restless nights and uneasy days, when every morning threatened to usher in the last day of England's liberty." SHERLOCK I bet those King's Mountain boys felt the same way a hundred years later. We will see if they are the same stock.

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/785 Message Board Post: I am wondering if you may know who P. Cowan Married, if she ties into the Skinner family.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowan or Cowen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/784 Message Board Post: In the New Jersey census of 1860 page 136 there is a Cowen family from Ireland as follows Francis Cowen 35 ,male Labor born Ireland Ann 30, female, born Ireland John 8, male born Ireland Margaret 4, female, born New Jersey William 2, male New Jersey Arlitia 7M, female, born NJ This was in Union co.Plainfield New Jersey does any body have this family , I have his sister and brother of Francis last name is spelled Cowan after they came to Canada Jane

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COWAN THOMSON McMATH McMAHON SEMPLE KARNS DOUGHERTY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/783 Message Board Post: Would like to hear from descendants of Joseph COWAN and Mary THOMSON, b. 1762, County of Renfrew, Scotland; married in Franklin Co., PA, ca. late 1700's; settled in Plum Twp., Allegheny Co., PA; parents of six known children: Eliza, md Robert McMATH; Robert , md #1 Elizabeth McMAHON, #2 Sarah WILSON; Alexander md Margaret SEMPLE; Nancy, md Frank KARNS; Mary, md Charles KARNS; and Margaret, md William J. DOUGHTERTY.

This is probably not a good forum to discuss this (and the issue certainly won't be settled), but genealogy is not just a study of people who lived more than 70 years ago. I've been actively working on my family tree for almost 28 years. (I've had plenty of time to think about this.) Just about everything in my computer database of over 83,000 people can be obtained from PUBLIC records. The most accurate information about your immediate family should come from you. But if you refuse to give it to me because of "privacy" concerns, I assure you that I'll eventually find someone among your relatives who aren't so anxious about these mostly imagined evil possibilities that have an extremely low probability. My biggest concern with getting information from your friendly cousin is that the vital statistics they share on your family will be less accurate and less complete than what you could have provided if you weren't so paranoid. Just because someone else will do something illegal with something good that I've accumulated DOES NOT in any way suggest that I've done anything wrong. We shouldn't be trying to make genealogists feel guilty about enjoying their hobby. I'll continue to post the dates and places of births and marriages and deaths for my family on the "world's bulletin board" and wouldn't hesitate to do the same at the local grocery store. My household will not live in fear. There are risks in life that are worth taking. (Haven't your ancestors taught you that?) Let's not turn genealogy into just a study of dead people. Personally, I much better enjoy the living people I've found through my life-long hobby of genealogy. And it's exciting to think of those I'll yet get to meet who share an interest in my family heritage. Very sincerely, ~~Michael S. Cole, M.D. Michael Steven COLE, M.D. born: 28 Apr 1955, Harrison, Boone Co., AR married: 16 Aug 1975, Searcy, White Co., AR living: Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., AR http://www.theColeFamily.com/hobby

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CLERK, COWAN, POLLOCK Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/782 Message Board Post: My gggggrandmother was born abt. 1741-1750, supposably in Ireland, Coleraine Co., or PA. She mar. my gggggrandfather POLLOCK, Robert 12, June 1770. She passed away abt. 1830-1840 in Lincoln Co., TN. The reason I'm submitting this request, I found in the swedish IGI Film 1067926 the name of COWAN, James mar. 7, Jun 1728 CLERK, Margarite. I would like to find out if this is my ggggggrandfather-mother. Everything matches, I just want to be sure. Anyone that can verify this, would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely Lela Pollock

There's a COWAN who plays professional hockey for the ATLANTA THRASHERS. Who can tell us more? jcmaclay

> I got this from another list and thought I would pass it on. > > Jerry Holland > > > This is an important message that we all should read. I have found my name > and my husband's name, plus our parent's names online and on World Family > Trees - I DIDN'T place them there, but someone did. I have become more > cautious about sharing anything past my grandparent's names because of this. > > Take care and save yourself some grief. > > Judy > > ************************************************************* > WELDING LINKS: PRIVACY AND THE WEB > by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG <[email protected]> > Would you post personal information about your family -- like their birth > dates and who they married and when -- on the local grocery store's bulletin > board? You wouldn't? Then don't post it on your home page on the World Wide > Web > -- that's the world's bulletin board, says Carole Lane, author of "Naked in > Cyberspace: How to Find Personal Information Online" (Pemberton Press, 1997, > $29.95). > Don't make it easy for thieves to steal your identity by posting your Social > Security number, birthdate, address and mother's > maiden name on the Web either. Of course, you wouldn't do that. However, if > you want a real shocker take a look at the way some genealogists are > exposing > themselves and their relatives on their home pages. > While gathering information for a book lately, I've examined hundreds of > home > pages of genealogists, and they are a pretty > sight -- for cyber thieves, that is. In our eagerness to share our family > history material and utilize the power of the Internet > we have forgotten that not everyone is honest. > Genealogists are not even thinking of the possible consequences when they > take a GEDCOM from Cousin Clare (who got part of it from Cousin Billy, who > got part of it from Cousin Bonnie, etc.) and post it on their home page. Oh, > it's wonderful information for genealogists, right down to everyone's > grandchildren's names, their spouses' names, and their birth dates and > addresses. The fact that they have invaded the privacy of their relatives > has > not crossed their minds. > Christine Gaunt <[email protected]>, co-compiler of Genealogy Resources on > the > Internet > <http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/gen_int1.html>, shared her concerns > and thoughts about this problem with me recently. > They include these suggestions: > -- You can post some information without posting what is an identifier. > Instead of saying that Jane DOE is your mother, say > that you are researching the Jane DOE line, and here is the information you > have on her, and where you've looked. Don't post > your (or living family members') birth dates and birthplaces. > -- Don't post Social Security numbers at all. Ditto for other identifying > numbers like driver's license numbers. > -- Decide for yourself what information you want to give to cousins you have > met online. > -- Use a program such as GedClean to remove information about living > individuals from your database before sending it to > someone else, or to a repository. That way, your birth date and birthplace > won't get into someone else's database. > -- Ask permission before you send GEDCOMs you've received on to someone > else. > That way, the originators can keep track of who has their data. > -- We may want to ask/tell our credit card companies that Mom's maiden name > is NOT a good password to use and to ask for a PIN or other password > instead. > An article entitled "Home-page Snoops," by Margaret Mannix appears on the > "U.S. News & World Report" magazine online edition at: > <http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/980511/11mone.htm> > Check out the related links at this site, particularly those regarding > identity theft and advice from the Social Security > Administration on what to do if someone else uses your number. > >

Many months ago a couple people on the list asked if I knew where a copy of the book, "Early Wilmington, Block by Block" could be found. I found it so let me know if I can be of assistance. Thanks, Bob

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HELP!!!!!!!!!!! Does anyone in Rootsweb have a working address for Jim (James) Cowan at? This address no longer works and I can not reach him.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!! Does anyone in Rootsweb have a working address for Jim (James) Cowan at [[email protected]] ? This address no longer works and I can not reach him.

This is from census records from Maine - I was not given the county, but thought that I would pass on the information just in case it connected to some of the Northern Cowan researchers. 1900 Census for Maine 58/#60 Cowan John 53 M W farmer $800/$110 Maine Cowan Mary A. 36 F W keeps house Maine Cowan Henry 22 M W lumberman Maine Cowan Joseph N. 19 M W sailor Maine Cowan Edwin 17 M W farm laborer Maine X Cowan Edgar 17 M W farm laborer Maine X

Hello Everyone! I saw this book on ebay it was owned by Robert H. Cowan as described below. Hurry it ends tomorrow. Chuck Cowan http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1523092529 <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1523092529> This particular 4-volume set of the Debates has a history of its own, having previously been in the private libraries of three noteworthy gentlemen during the 165 years since the books were printed. The first owner was Robert H. Cowan, who was a colonel for North Carolina’s 18th infantry, serving under Brig. Gen. L. O’B. Branch as an officer for the Confederacy in the Civil War. The next owner was Fifth Judicial District of North Carolina judge and NC Supreme Court Judge O. H. Allen (from Kenansville). And, about a hundred years ago, these books were in the library of Matt H. Allen, attorney, Representative and then Senator for the state of North Carolina, whose estate they were part of. The signatures and/or nameplates of these previous owners are found in the books.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowan, Jinks, Ferguson,Cole(Cool) Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/781 Message Board Post: I am a great grandson of William James Cowan and Abigail Jinks, of Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. Their son, Everett Nelson Cowan, was my grandfather. His son(and only child), is my father. Everett Nelson Cowan Jr. I am Everett Jr.'s oldest son. I am always looking for family. Norman Clarence Cowan. RSVP/ASAP

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams, Boon, Vangilder,Cowan/Cowen, Cole, Weatherby,Eaton,Perry,Clair,Wangstrom,Clement,Willard Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/219.1 Message Board Post: I am a direct descendant of William Allison Cowan Jr and Mary M. Eaton - I only just found out that Wm (Sr) was born in Maine (1850 census) I have been studying this branch of the family extensively for over 20 years , I recently inherited a hymnal that belonged to Mary Weatherby Cowan - and yet through all these years I have literally no information on William A. Sr - to say I was thrilled to see his name on your post is the understatement of the year - in the 4 years I have been on the internet it is the first time I have found someone who even knew he existed outside of being "Mary Weatherby's husband" -- I hope any other's out there who came from this line - will please contact me - I would love to trade information with you !! My roots are : William Allison Cowan & Mary Weatherby ; their son William Allison Cowan Jr married Mary Matilda Eaton at Baltimore MD ; their (oldest) daughter Naomi Weatherby Cowan (my greatgrandmother) married William Plummer Cole Jr (also Balt! imore , MD) their (oldest) daughter (my grandmother) Elmira "Isabel" Cole (d 1979) - who was THE person who introduced me to Genealogy- married Lewis Williams in 1914 at Goshen , NJ , they had 4 children (2nd child) Their oldest son (my father) Paul Lewis Williams was born 1917 and died 1980 was first married to Lillian E. Terry (d. 1953) then in 1954 to my mother (maiden name Clair) at Millville, NJ - I am my father's 5th child (my mother's 2nd) of 6. I was born at Millville, NJ in 1957 - Please contact me to trade information on this family line - ida macken - [email protected] or [email protected]