COWAN, James ¹

James married Isabel MUATT, daughter of Thomas MOVAT elder, Cordiner, Shoemaker and Margaret DICKSON, on 11 August 1812 in Edinburgh, Scotland.¹ (Isabel MUATT was born on 24 November 1788 ² and was baptised on 30 November 1788 in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

Old Parish Registers
Haddington Parish East Lothian
Marriages

"13 September 1812
Cowan | James & Isable Mewet irregularly (this word has been wrongly spelt towards the end then changed so that end letters are not clear but word is recognisable) at Edinburgh 11 August 1812"

Note: This entry is the middle one of three made between 13 September and the next normal parish entry on 11 October 1812 in the marriage register of the parish of Haddington. The three irregular marriages took place between 13 June and 31 August 1812 in parishes other than Haddington. The parish authorities kept a check on such matters, an irregular marriage being a marriage contracted outwith the forms of the Establish Church of Scotland. ¹