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Cowie
« on: Friday 28 March 14 14:44 GMT (UK) »
Hi all
Can anyone help find a Louden Ville, Cowie
I have just download a death cert and address is giving as Louden Ville, Cowie stirling
but not much more
I wound be so grateful for any help
Jan
Paisley:Cowan,McFarlane,
Neilston:Thorpe,Young,Edgar,McGraw,McDonald
Strath:Grant,McClean,Chrisholm
Houston:Whyte
Ayrshire:McIlwraith,McCulloch
Kirkcubright:Halliday,Blackloch

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Re: Cowie
« Reply #1 on: Friday 28 March 14 14:57 GMT (UK) »
Hi Jan  :)

When is the death cert from? Depending on year, have you tried looking for this person/family in the censuses?

Monica

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Re: Cowie
« Reply #2 on: Friday 28 March 14 15:09 GMT (UK) »
Hi  MonicaL

I do have the census from 1871 to 1911 living in Glasgow but they moved to Stirling and the wife died at Louden Ville, Cowie  and the husband died at Haggs, Stirlingshire.
and on the cert does not give much info about the address not even the informats address
Cheers Jan
Paisley:Cowan,McFarlane,
Neilston:Thorpe,Young,Edgar,McGraw,McDonald
Strath:Grant,McClean,Chrisholm
Houston:Whyte
Ayrshire:McIlwraith,McCulloch
Kirkcubright:Halliday,Blackloch

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Re: Cowie
« Reply #3 on: Friday 28 March 14 15:46 GMT (UK) »
It's probably a house called Louden Villa somewhere near what is now the village of Cowie in (the parish/district of) Stirling.

See http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NS8389 for the contemporary map and compare with http://maps.nls.uk/view/75675193 - the 'Cowie Rows' shown on that map, published in 1899, don't appear on mid-19th century maps at all, and neither do the collieries surrounding Cowie.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowie,_Stirling

You haven't said when she died, or whether her husband survived her. However in your place I would go for the valuation rolls, and look for her husband in Cowie, Stirling, as close as possible before her death, or, if she outlived him, just before her own death. While her husband was alive, he only would be listed as the householder, but after his death she could be listed as the householder if she outlived him. Unless they were living with a daughter and son-in-law, or a son and daughter-in-law, in which case you would need to find the son or son-in-law.

House names are not always listed in the valuation rolls, so you might only get a street address.

The VRs are available in the National Archives of Scotland and in the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. They will also be available in Stirling district archives and probably in Stirling public library. If you can't get to any of those, you could try contacting Stirling Library, or hire a searcher to do the search for you.
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.


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Re: Cowie
« Reply #4 on: Friday 28 March 14 16:02 GMT (UK) »
opss Sorry she died in 1933 and her husband died 1937 they had no  children there nephew was the information 
Jan
Paisley:Cowan,McFarlane,
Neilston:Thorpe,Young,Edgar,McGraw,McDonald
Strath:Grant,McClean,Chrisholm
Houston:Whyte
Ayrshire:McIlwraith,McCulloch
Kirkcubright:Halliday,Blackloch

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Re: Cowie
« Reply #5 on: Friday 28 March 14 16:11 GMT (UK) »

hi Forfarian
Thank you for the links I will have a look at them over the weekend
cheers Jan
Paisley:Cowan,McFarlane,
Neilston:Thorpe,Young,Edgar,McGraw,McDonald
Strath:Grant,McClean,Chrisholm
Houston:Whyte
Ayrshire:McIlwraith,McCulloch
Kirkcubright:Halliday,Blackloch

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Re: Cowie
« Reply #6 on: Friday 28 March 14 22:04 GMT (UK) »
opss Sorry she died in 1933 and her husband died 1937 they had no  children there nephew was the information 

Ah. As late as that, you could also try the Register of Electors. Available in the same sorts of places.
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: Cowie
« Reply #7 on: Friday 28 March 14 22:49 GMT (UK) »
Newspaper archives on findmypast produced this dated 30 May 1942:
SCOTS DOCTOR FINED £20 FOR CAR OFFENCE Dr T. L. Fleming (60), Loudon Villa, Station Road, Cowie, was fined £20 and disqualified from driving for three, years by Sheriff Burn-Murdoch Stirling yesterday..
GRAY - Inveresk; Lanarkshire
LINDSAY - Lanarkshire
PURDIE - Lanarkshire; W. Lothian
POZZI - Elgin; Lancashire
MACKENZIE, MORISON - Isle of Lewis
ARCHIBALD, HAY, HUNTER, SNADDON - Clackmannanshire
COXON, HALL, JACKSON, SHOTTON - Northumberland

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Re: Cowie
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 29 March 14 09:48 GMT (UK) »
Not so good for the Doctor, but that is a great find, Isabel  ;)

Monica
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