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€" 12 â€" THE COLBORNE CHRONICLE â€" Thursday, July 24, 2008 . www.northumberlandtoday.com L e e o The Cowey (Cowie) family reunites Long, happy lives K 8 & °Y J _ i 9 |â€" & ’! A‘% P 1 a C & Cl 3#3 _ E i Continued from page 11 both sides of their families. o caE0 â€" * 1 | i ol +. I ) Perhaps in times when it took Neil and Nancy met in 4# ts ° WRam*"*" hours to go 10 miles, families September 2007, bringing Neil one M h AS® AF ,onnttl 4 rarely saw each other. They just . step closer to the Cowies. ids is w ce t j grew apart. If there was a family Nancy had known cousin & , wl a tany .ts \ $ ,@ & feud, no one now living knows â€" Francis for years They now had Wl e W d % @‘ c j l Â¥ 1 T h y d about it. links to three of the original five " OÂ¥ & & & M# La * %i‘lfi '\_‘ s LRâ€" b~ gl_'__nl:.':'( C HMiee 'j X ... The journey they have taken to . siblings â€" Mary, John and James. P inedl + es J‘# _;.Q#}' ie J *h ic > 0) n Ybe reunited is a long and winding . All that was missing was the link l ) % * _ oC uol i5 ho § & ’ ___ We ‘one and started when Neil‘s to Robert and his homesteading | j y , k . ey y * * \§ : dn re «prother Nige! died suddenly in . family out west. tw )9 s hy S 285 /0 3,1"9\? Cva \i{w > ©2005. { Back into the picture comes the B ¢ ' rolcs ib uin Apcmie ty . : i» Nigel was into genealogy. helpful cousin Alex Broomfield. C P s 1 "Like J\ Fq\? y «Amongst his papers were his dad‘s He mentioned he had found . aii [3 [ Trim>4" AiPyne é I : «war records and a Cowey family Cowie Farms out west. Donna . (RM Es salles k 4S ;’:’.,,"“"g,,:fl i SE y & ‘tree. _ 4 Grey and her husband own a farm . Wl Nes f t.\ Â¥P “‘"R-'{;:’ P a se wie . on Neil Coswy took up the study. . there. She is a direct descendant of ..\ \@iiemii _ 9 e d ! P ;é' ‘ m a. y Using the Internet, he found Alex . Robert and a tie to the last link. ol eny pun ons s f i Th 6h fecatenies Broomfield. Alex mentioned his â€". _ From there, it was a short step | A church full of Coweys and Cowies. They were all together on July 20 â€" more than 100 of them from as far . _ fourth cousin, Nancy Gibson, a | to having a reunion. h . _ away as Cardiff, Sask. and the southern USA for the first ever Cowie/Cowey reunion. There have been so many direct descendant of Mary. She _ The Greys are celebrating their â€" gescendgants of John and Jane Cowey that the tree ran 40 feet around the Eden Church hall in Dundonald. and Francis Cowie are cousins on 50th wedding anniversary this e f i % ki mimima . year and were coming east in July . invitations for the pot luck dinner . Francis, he asked about them. x M\ to hunt down some of her at12:45 p.m. July 20 at Eden United Cousin Francis reached back N 4 relatives. It seemed like the perfect Church in Dundonald. Nancy â€" and pulled out the original deeds y Eo becicmnmitlh, . time hopes to see at least 100 relatives . to the farm. $ a A brief discussion in the car for the afternoon of fun and Neil knew that Mark Cowey, Pan s | _ hatched the idea and they started renewal of ties. Anyone who with no children of ‘his own, s 8 collecting addresges Oof the living thinks they may.be related can â€" passed his watch on to his niece es t q“ desce’ndan‘tg. Neil figures they contact . Nancy Gibson.â€" at Margaret. Francis pulled it out . â€" wl NP TA < ' ; â€" have identified 99 per cent of the â€" cowey.reunion@hotmail.com. and showed it to his cousin. €>" ""“JU P ) & . Ril) 596 offspring in nine generations, Margaret was left out of the will 4 uh N «n cz o en n Mie.. 4 Pm â€" mostly stretching across Canada. except for a framed picture. On C en MBE * m | M mm | A few bave found their way to A mystery solved one of Neil‘s visits to the Cowle : dn . @#â€" € Ixla 0 C Australia, â€" ysY i farm, Francis said he had a picture \ P id Wnn W 0o o0 @.J\ Many of them are familiar to R;’“‘?‘O“;,[ 11t§ua ythanravgl which might interest Neil â€" the s( ~ W . PP %'-&.;E“h this area â€" Kernaghan, Arkles, rélys_erlels. 3 e(?n;(?? whll\leil é aNC!S | one given to Margaret. _ j o >A Peebles, Haines, Day, Jones, ~°WE s%vg fu °§ ozve}slr : They now have photos of four of The Cowie homestead 1991, a going concern just west of Dundonald. â€"Waller ... f t N_e111 i tannavmane . _ the original five children. Only 7 f The cousins have sent out 125 ‘aMVy Gocuments. When he MeL,| yormes is missing. T o e .