http://proni.nics.gov.uk/records/private/lond_eo.htm This web site may be of interest to some of the researchers on the list. PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE of NORTHERN IRELAND I did a Cowan search and this is the page that showed up -and here is a little snip from the site. Alexander Stewart, who was born in 1699, appears to have inherited the Donegal estate from his brother Thomas about 1730. In 1737 he married his cousin, Mary Cowan, daughter of Alderman John Cowan of Londonderry (d.1733), and heiress to her brother, Sir Robert Cowan, Governor of Bombay, 1729-1734. Sir Robert entered the service of the East India Company before 1720. He retired in 1735 and died in 1738. I really think that this is the Cowan line that Robert Cowan has been looking at and researching. I was just impressed with the idea that they may be actually putting some records online that will be helpful in Cowan research. Laura Cowan Cooper Kodak, TN 37764 [email protected]