Hi Neale, thank you for your reply, I do have the above certs but cannot find his birth cert.
I am quite interested in your Cowden connection in Paisley.I have William Cowden and Catherine Jack having 4 children born in Paisley in the late 1700's and one in Lochwinnoch in the 1770s.They were my 4 x great grandparents , my 3 x great grandmother Margaret Cowden died in Drygate Glasgow in 1864. Her sister Mary Cowden died in Stock Street , Paisley in 1858 .I would be extremely interested if you think we have a connection.Baird