Isabelle Cowan

Notes:

The following note is an attempt to clarify the apparent relationships between 4 persons named Isabelle (also Isabel or Isabella). This note is offered as part of the record for Isabelle #2 below:

Will of Isabelle Johns (Isa. #1) 1793, gives a daughter, Isabelle Cowan (Isa. #2). As Isabelle Johns (Isa. #1) is the grandmother of Isaac Cowan Lamb's daughters (Isabel (Isa. #3) & Eleanor Lamb, given in her will), this Isabelle Cowan (Isa. #2) is most likely her daughter by a former marriage (Cowan). Isabelle Cowan's (Isa. #2) will 1836 also shows an Isabelle Cowan, Jr. (Isa. #4).

In the 1836 will (Isa. #2), listed are: Isabelle Cowan, Jr., Robert C. Ormsby; Thomas Cowan's children; John B. Cowan; Samuel C. Cowan; Thomas Cowan; Harris Cowan; Maria Rivenbark; Hugh Cowan. (Exr. Friend, John Moore, Sr.) (relationships not given in the will)

Gen 1 Thomas Lamb --- Isabelle Johns --- Mr. _____ Cowan
Gen 2 Isaac Cowan Lamb Isabelle Cowan
Gen 3 Isabel (or Isabella) Lamb Isabelle Cowan
Gen 3 Eleanor Lamb

Isabelle married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Notes:

As given in the notes attached to record for her mother (Isa. #2), this Isabelle Cowan, Jr. (Isa. #4) appears to be the daughter of (Isa. #2) and, by her Cowan last name, was either single at the death of her mother (Isa.#2) in 1836...or was married to someone who also had the Cowan last name.