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/51.78.83 Message Board Post: hey Carolyn thanks for the enquiry..but I have tracked them down....took a while, as technology improves so does access Charles Cowan married Marion Mackay 18th Aug 1846 in the Parish church of saint Cuthbert Edinburgh Scotland had three children Alexander Cowan 12 July 1847 Peter keith Mackay Cowan 6 Nov 1855 Charles Cowan 8 Feb 1859 they them migrated to New Zealand Alexander is my Great Grand father. Peter Keith Mackay Cowan moved to Rarotonga..hence the Cowan's in the south Pacific..Tahiti still trying to trace the family of charles and Mary Henrieta Cowan Charles and henrieta are buried with his Mother Marion with her second husband "William Stockwell" also buried there is Marions Father"Peter Keith Mackay" block=A section=2 Plot=44/46 in the Waikumete Cemetary in Auckland, New Zealand