Samuel Cowan

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Hi shanreagh - This is what I had sent to the original poster in a PM

Samuel Cowan was a weaver and appears in the Griffith Valuation records in Magheranock (parish Magheradrool). He is renting from Samuel Gillespie who in turn is a tenant of David S Ker. (Samuel's name also happens to appear a few lines above my Alexander Ferguson, so perhaps they even knew each other - I also have Boyd ancestry but they were in Ballymurphy in the mid 19th century)
https://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/z/zoomifyDynamicViewer.php?file=083082&path=./pix/083/&showpage=1&mysession=2992235897390&width=&height=&debug=

The following is the marriage record for Mary and Hugh, which can be accessed from here https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/view/?record_id=8f6abc883a-2035823

Mary had at least one brother, James https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/P73B-NN7

If you are interested in what lives may have been like in Ballynahinch area, I recommend the videos by a local historian uploaded to YouTube by the "Rowallane & Slieve Croob Community Twinning Group," which give a good overview of the evolution of the area, particularly the series called "Ballynahinch buildings a Chronology 1-2-3.." - which isn't just about buildings but the area's history as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26tgnyNsfAY )  - the one about the Battle of Ballynahinch is informative too!
Good luck!

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(Marriage record transcript)
Magheradroll Parish Church, Ballynahinch, according to the Rites and Ceremonies United Church of England, 1st day of January 1852
Hugh Boyd  25yrs bachelor, Labourer of Ballycreen (Magheradrool), father Robert Boyd, Labourer; Mary Cowan, full age, spinster of Magheranock (Magheradrool), father Samuel Cowan, Weaver. Witnesses James (?), Robert McSwaine