Catherine COWPER

• Name	Catherine COWPER
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I17703	Gadd
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2008

  
  

  Father	Patrick COWPER
  Family ID	F6628	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alexander DONALDSON,   b. Abt 1757, Forgan, Fife d. 13 Dec 1843, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	09 May 1778	Edinburgh, Scotland
  	Dundee parish register records on this date that they were "Clandestinately [sic] married at Edinburgh, May" Scottish law did not require parental consent to marriage, and Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753 applied only to England and Wales, not to Scotland, so during the eighteenth century an ever increasing number of couples married outside of their parish church, and without having the banns called. [www.encyclopedia.com]
  		Record of the Clandestine Marriage of Alexander DONALDSON and Catherine COWPER
  Children	1. Patrick DONALDSON,   b. 30 Sep 1779, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland d. 2 Oct 1828 -1833 (Age 53 years)   2. William DONALDSON,   b. 23 Apr 1781   3. Alexander DONALDSON,   b. 16 Feb 1783, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland   4. John DONALDSON,   b. 25 Jul 1794, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland d. 08 Oct 1865, 107 Church Street, Tynemouth, Northumberland (Age 71 years)   5. Charles DONALDSON,   b. 12 May 1797, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland
  Family ID	F6625	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2008