Tour Scotland Video John Cowan Stained Glass Window St. John's Kirk Perth

Tour Scotland travel video of the John Cowan Stained Glass Memorial Window in St. John's Kirk, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This window, the work of Herbert Hendrie, was the gift of Mrs Annie Cowan, in memory of her husband John.

This surname, widespread in Scotland and Ulster, Ireland, is an Anglicized form of the old Gaelic MacEoghain or MacEoin. The Gaelic prefix " mac " means " son of ", plus the personal name Eoghan from the old Celtic " Ouen ", meaning well born, but believed to derive ultimately from the Greek " Eugenious ", " born lucky " or " well born ". In Ireland Eugene replaced Eoin, the old Irish form of John, and the various patronymic forms of the name include MacOwen, MacCown, MacCone, MacKeown. The forms Cowan, Cowen and Kewon resulted from the subsequent loss of the " Mac " prefix. In 1582 one, John Cowan was Chancellor of Christ church, Waterford, and in 1639 Cowan's Hospital in Stirling was founded by John Cowan, a merchant there. On June 29th 1643 Marionne Cowan and George Mwir were married in Ochiltree, Ayrshire. On May 8th 1846 Pat Cowan, a merchant, aged 21 years, embarked from Liverpool on the " Rochester " bound for New York, America. He was a famine immigrant to that city. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Elizabeth Cowan, marriage to Edward Humphery, which was dated November 12th 1580, London, England, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1.


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