Cowan Family History
- Cowan Name Meaning
- Scottish: reduced form of McCowen.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,705,996 Historical Documents with Cowan on Ancestry
- 402,913 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 353,455 Census and Voter Lists
- 54,844 Military Records
- 46,468 Immigration Records
- 848,316 Member Trees
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Number of Cowan families
 269 - 536  90 - 268 |
 1 - 89  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cowan families
|
759 - 1,515 254 - 758 |
1 - 253 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cowan census records
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- Ireland (315)
- Scotland (255)
- England (200)
- Great Britain (121)
- Scotland;Great Britain (8)
- Germany (7)
from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Cowan census records
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