I have found a transcription of the 1901 census, at 3 Mitchell's Lane, Turriff, Aberdeenshire
Barbara Burnett Head Single 36
Annie Campbell Daughter 13
Robert Cowie Son 9
William Grant Son 7
Jessie Mair Daughter 5
all allegedly born Monquhitter, Aberdeenshire.
You can (and should) view the original at
www.scotlandspeople.gov.ukSo the reason you can't find the marriage before 1891 is that they were not married.
Robert's birth certificate should tell you Alexander Cowie's occupation and his address at the time of Robert's birth.
Looks as if Barbara was born on 1 April 1862, parents William Burnett and Ann Whyte, in which case she didn't know how old she was, or couldn't work it out, or was being less than totally truthful about her age. She was one day short of her 39th birthday on census day, 31 March 1901.
Barbara Burnett, mother's maiden surname White, died in Aberdeen in 1906, aged 43. You can view her death certificate at
www.scotlandspeople.go.uk. It will tell you where she died, where she was living at the time of her death, the names of her parents, cause of death, and who registered the death.
There may be records of what happened to her youngest children after her death. Once you know from her death certificate where she lived, you can have a look in the Aberdeen Archives
https://archives.aberdeencity.gov.uk/CalmView/default.aspx to see if the Parochial Board (Poor Law) records of her home parish have survived. If so there might be information about Alexander Cowie as well as about the fathers of William and Jessie.
If she died in hospital, there should be records in the hospital archives. See
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/collections/our-collections/nhs-grampian-archives-92.php
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