William McCowan Gravestone Cathedral Graveyard On History Visit To Dunblane Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the William McCowan, Gravestone on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Cathedral Graveyard in Dunblane near Stirling, Stirlingshire. William McCowan, who emigrated to America was born on 13th July 1813. William died in USA on 1st of April 1864 at Camp Reedville, Massachusetts, while in the Union Army. Readville was home to Camp Meigs during the American Civil War, a training camp for Union soldiers, including those of the famed 54th Massachusetts Infantry, portrayed in the film Glory. Another unusual regiment that trained at Camp Meigs was the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry, half of which was recruited in California and sent via ocean transports to Readville for training before being sent to Virginia to the war. William's son Daniel McCowan of Fall River USA erected the obelisk on his visit to Dunblane on 22nd November 1871, returned to America 30th December 1871. Jas.(James) Anderson, imo w. (in memory of wife) Jane McCowan 27.DEC.1836 d.17.MAR.1867. (Daughter of William, sister of Daniel) Peter McCowan 2.JAN.1843 d. 26.JUL.1843, (Son of William, brother of Daniel) Wm. McCowan 14.SEP.1846 d. 16.OCT.1846. (Son of William brother of Daniel) Andrew McCowan 7.OCT.1847 d. 18.JAN.1848, (Son of William brother of Daniel) Wm. McCowan 13.JUL.1853 d. 21 JUL.1853 (Son of William, brother of Daniel) The surname McCowan was first found in Ayrshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, formerly a county in the southwestern Strathclyde region of Scotland, that today makes up the Council Areas of South, East, and North Ayrshire, where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D. The ancient Scottish name McCowan was first used by the Strathclyde Briton people of the Scottish and English Borderlands. The original bearer of the name lived in the Scottish English borders region. The McCowan family lived in Ayrshire. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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