When Catherine Cowan was born on 24 January 1831, in Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, James Cowan, was 44 and her mother, Agnes Gibb, was 42. She married William Buchanan on 19 April 1852, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter.
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The Scottish Reform Act was introduced by Parliament that introduced changes to the election laws in Scotland. The Act didn’t change the method of how the counties elected members but adopted a different solution for each pair of counties. Ultimately, it brought about boundary changes so that some burghs would have more say for the country than others.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868 was passed by Parliament and allowed for the creation of seven additional Scottish seats in the House of Commons. Along with the seats, Two University constituencies were created. These each returned one member to Parliament.
Scottish and Manx: shortened form of McOwen and McKeown . See also McEwen .
Sottish and Manx: from a shortened form of Irish Ó Comhdhain and Mac Comhdhain ‘descendant or son of Comhdan’ or Gaelic Mac Comhghain ‘son of Comhghan (‘the twin’). Pronounced to rhyme with Owen, the name sometimes appears as Coan and Cohen in Down, and has been used interchangeably with Irish Coyne in Connacht and McIlhone in Tyrone. In the Isle of Man the name is pronounced /'kauən/ (with Cow- as in English cow).
Scottish and Manx: sometimes a variant of Colquhoun , pronounced Cohoon in Scotland and Cahoon in Ulster.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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