UPDATE - Mary Cowan Howat b. 1854 Maxwelltown
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In reply to:
Mary C.Howat b. 1854 Edinburgh
Marc Archer 3/23/99
Since the original post I've found the Scottish origins of Mary Cowan Howat.She was b. July 1854 in Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland to James Howat and Margaret Kennedy Ross.Margaret Kennedy Ross was b. abt. 1823 in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.James Howat was b. abt. 1813 in England to a Maxwelltown and Dumfries family, the son of James Howat and Mary Cowan.
Mary was listed on the 1881 census in Cambusbarron, St. Ninians, Stirlingshire, Scotland with her husband, John McIntyre and their small children, her two younger brothers, and a mysterious cousin Homer Cowan.This was only two years before they migrated to Philadelphia where Mary died in December, 1902, and is buried in Greenmount Cemetery with several of her grandchildren.
John McIntyre was b. in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland abt. 1849, son of John McIntyre b. abt. 1807 in Dumfries, and Margaret Nixon the dau. of Thomas Nixon b. abt. 1823 in Brampton, Cumberlandshire, England.