Hi Karen,
I guess anything's possible, but I suspect Cowhard is a corruption of
Cowherd, perhaps phonetically spelled, using the same "ar" pronunciation
found in "Jervis." If the name is Cowherd, then it probably relates to the
occupation of the first family member to adopt a surname 2 or 3 centuries ago.
David Palmquist,
Delta BC Canada
(Researching O'Neill, Calvert, Hartley, McClung, Hair, Hope/Houp, Christie,
Stevenson, Rigg, Elliott, Thomson and Moat in southeastern Scotland, 17th,
18th and early 19th centuries.)
At 06:00 PM 19/12/00 -0800, you wrote:
CALVERT-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 174
Today's Topics:
#1 [CALVERT] Reuben Cowhard ["Karen Carty"
<shaw(a)ninenet.com>]
(snip)
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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 20:01:31 -0600
From: "Karen Carty" <shaw(a)ninenet.com>
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Subject: [CALVERT] Reuben Cowhard
Does this ring a bell with anyone? Could this be yet another spelling to
watch
for?