Person:Walter Cowan (14)

Walter Basil COWAN was b. 27jul1858 at Geneva, Switzerland, son of Richard Cowan and Elizabeth Inez Forrester (familysearch). Walter Basil Cowan (27jul1858-12may1899 Wyoming, USA) (ancestry.com tree). Walter Basil Cowan (1857-12may1899 Cheyenne, Wyoming) was buried at Saratoga, Carbon, Wyoming (findagrave).

Walter Basil, 2nd surviving son of late Richard Cowan, St. Kilda, Sidmouth, marr Julia, 2nd dau of Hon. J.W. Smith of Manchester, New Hampshire, 5dec1893 at Laramie, Wyoming (Bath Chronicle, findmypast). In 1870 Isaac W. Smith (1825, lawyer), wife Amanda N. (1829), dau Julia B. (1862), b. New Hampshire, USA, were at Manchester, Hillsborough, N. Hampshire (census). In 1880 Isaac W. Smith (1825, lawyer), wife Amanda W. (1829), dau Julia B. (1862), all b. New Hampshire of parents, b. New Hampshire, were at same place (census). In 1881 Walter B. Cowan (1859 Geneva) was merchant apprentice at a farm in Lancashire, England (census).

A dau: Constance Horsburgh, only dau of late Walter Basil Cowan, of Deerwood Ranch, Saratoga, Wyoming, and Mrs. Cowan of Egypt, Sidmouth, got engaged in 1919 (the Times). A son: Corporal Richard Innes Cowan, Kings Liverpool Regt., eldest son of late Walter Cowan and Mrs. Cowan, Egypt, Sidmouth, got engaged to Gladys Lillias, youngest dau of late William Gilchrist, M.I.C.E., Sidmouth, in 1917 (the Times). Richard Innes Cowan of N. Lake, Sandwich, husband of Gladys L.F. Cowan, and eldest son of late Mrs. Walter Cowan of Sidmouth, d. 24nov1925 (the Times). Richard I. Cowan (1895) d. 4th qtr 1925 at Eastbourne, Sussex (bmd). Richard Innes Cowan, Broadlees, Guston, was fined after crashing his motorcycle, sep1925 (Dover Express, findmypast).

In 1888 Walter B. Cowan (1859 USA, ?ranch) arrived at NY from Liverpool; In 1896 Walter B. Cowan (1858 USA, ranchman) arrived at NY from Liverpool for a protracted sojourn (ancestry.com). In 1896 Walten B. Cowan (1859, ?mag cattle ?ranch), Julia B. (1863), Richard J. (1895), arrived at Liverpool from America (ancestry.com). In 1905 Julia B. Cowan (1863 foreign) and Constance H. (1897) and Walter W. (1899) (British) arrived at Liverpool from Boston (ancestry.com). In 1905 Julia B. Cowan (age 34, ?wid, Manchester, ?New Hampshire), Lillian A. (age 40, c/o brother J.J. Cowan, Colorado Springs), arrived at NY from Liverpool (ancestry.com). In 1911 Julia Cowan (1862, wid, 3 living children) and nephew Robert Cowan (1905) (b. USA, with private means) were at Salcombe, Devon (census).