Data. Cowan Census Records, Cowans Gap and Vicinity

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Source

Intermediate source: Searches of the Ancestry census data base 1790-1880, for the counties of Bedford, Franklin, Fulton, and Huntingdon, for surname variants "Cowan", "Cowin", and "Cowen". Age Categories correspond to what appears in Ancestry's search results. Finer levels of detail are usually available when specific entries are examined.

Related

Cowan's Gap Cowans

Roaring Springs Cowans

County Formation

Census records for the Cowans of Cowan's Gap and vicinity can be found in at least four different counties. County boundaries vary considerably through time and records for some of the Cowan's gap Cowans can be found in all four counties, at different times. Sometimes this is because they moved from one area to another, but sometimes its just because the county boundaries changed. In some instances, it appears that some of them were enumerated by the census taker fro one County who inadvertantly strayed over the county line.

Bedford County was created on March 9, 1771.

Franklin County was created on September 9, 1784, from part of Cumberland County

Huntingdon County was created on September 20, 1787, from part of Bedford County. Its county seat is Huntingdon.

Fulton County was created on April 19, 1851, from part of Bedford County

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*Entries do not add to sum shown in census

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*Blanche Cowan appears in the 1880 census in two places. First as age 22 in the household of George W. Chestnut, where she is listed as one of several servants. Second as age 22 in the household of Samuel and Elizabeth Cowan, where she is listed as a daughter. Children listed in the household of Samuel and Elizabeth match up well with children's names for this couple in the 1870 census. It looks like Blanche in the 1870 is in fact the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth, and that in 1880 she's been inadvertantly listed in two separate households. This may have been because while she was living in the Chesnut household, her parents still identified her as part of their own household.