Person:Walter Cowan (13)

Walter COWAN was b. abt 1844 at Leith, Midlothian (census). W. Cowan, late Capt 60th Rifles, marr Alletta Mary Mounsey ?NASON, dau of Lt Col ?Nason, 4may1886 at Crieff, N.Britain (Daily News). Walter Cowan of Edinburgh d. 17jan1896 (GWR shares, findmypast).

Alletta Mary Mounsey ?Nason was youngest dau of Lt Gen ?Nason, late of ?Fornham St. Martin (Manchester Courier, findmypast). In 1891 late Lt Gen Nason, Comrie House, ?Comrie, Perthshire mentioned (London Standard findmypast).

Walter Cowan (8dec1843-17jan1896), late Capt Kings Royal Rifle Corps, and wife Alletta Mary Mounsey (23apr1861-8jan1943) were buried at Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh (gravestone photos).

Capt Walter Cowan , Regt of Foot, sometime res at Kinmonth, Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, and later at ?Strone House, Kirkmichael, Perthshire; mentioned: Major Henry Vivian Cowan of Umballah, India (GWR shares, findmypast). In 1864 Walter Cowan, 24 Drummond Pl., Edinburgh (Directory). In 1891 Walter Cowan (1844 St. Marys, Midlothian, retd army officer), wife Alletta Mary Mounsey (1862 Ireland), children, Winifred Mary Grace (1887 Port of Menteith, Perths.), James Robert Campbell (1890 Dunbarney, Perths.), were at Dunbarney (census). In 1901 Alletta M.M. Cowan (1861 Ireland, wid, own means) was at Edinburgh (census). In 1901 Winifred Mary (1887 Callander, Perths.) and Jas Robt Campbell Cowan (1890 Perths.) were at school at Edinburgh and Berks, respectively (census). In 1911 James R.G. Cowan (1890 Perths., unm) was agricultural pupil at a farm in Northumberland (census ancestry.com; name James M.G. Cowan at findmypast, handwritten James R.C. Cowan). James Robert Campbell Cowan (6oct1889, Scotland, son of Walter Cowan and Nason), spouse of Gillian Cecily Lee Warner, d. 24oct1969 at Vancouver, Brit Columbia (familysearch).