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