Janet Reid
- Christened: 10 Apr 1829, Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland
- Married: 12 Aug 1859, Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland 1
- Died: 6 Aug 1912, Bo'ness, Linlithgow, Scotland 2
 Research Notes:
At the time of the 1891 Scotland Census Janet R. Cowan, aged 62, born in Tarbolton Ayrshire, widow, milliner, was living at 3 Hawkhill, Ayr, Ayrshire. With her were children: Andrew R. (25), law clerk, Jane L. (24). Two visitors, Walter S. Mathewson (24)* of Rulewater in Roxburghshire, law clerk, and Henry Bell (33)** of Isle of Whithorn in Wigtonshire, chemist & druggist
* married Janet's daughter Jessie in the following year.
** married Janet's daughter Jane (Jeanie) in the following year.
At the time of the 1901 Scotland Census Janet R. Cowan, aged 72, born in Tarbolton Ayrshire, widow, living on own means, was at 272 Kenmure St., Glasgow Pollockshields, Lanarkshire. With her son Andrew R. (35) of Tarbolton, solicitor
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Janet Cowan died aged 83 years.
Marriage Information:
Janet married Hugh Cowan, son of John Cowan and Jean (Jane) Leggat, on 12 Aug 1859 in Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland 1. (Hugh Cowan was born on 15 Sep 1829 in Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland and died on 5 May 1886 in 46 High St., Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland.)
Marriage Notes:
Hugh Cowan, age 29, of Hillhead Coylton, shoemaker, bachelor, son of John Cowan, fireman, and Jane Cowan maiden name Leggat, and
Janet Reid, age 30, of Tarbolton, milliner?, spinster, daughter of Andrew Reid, grocer (deceased), and Elizabeth Reid maiden name Thomson
Witnesses: Andrew Reid, James Barclay |