Margaret Murdoch McCowan

  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the census in 1851 in Craig's Close, High Church, Edinburgh, Scotland. Recorded (aged 25) living with her husband William (27, flesher) and neice Euphemia Hay (10, scholar).

Margaret married William Wight Scott, son of Alexander Scott and Margaret Wight, on 21 Nov 1844 in Leith South, Edinburgh, Scotland. (William Wight Scott was born circa 1823 in Edinburgh, Scotland and died on 13 May 1878 in Henderson Row, Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland.) The cause of his death was carcinoma of liver.