Whilst by no means established as fact, it would appear that the mother of Margaret Allister was Elizabeth McQuowen, who married Robert Allister on 19^th March 1819.

‘McQuowen’ is taken to be a phonetic transcription of McKeown or something of the kind.

It may be that Elizabeth was one in the same as the Eliza, daughter of Robert McQuowen of Lisnastrain (now Lisnastrean), who was baptised on 28^th February 1805, in which case she would have been a little over 14 when she married Robert Allister.