When Henry McGowan was born about 1788, in Ballintoy, Ballintoy, County Antrim, Ireland, his father, Daniel William McGowan, was 25 and his mother, Agnes MacGilchrist, was 22.
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Battle of Antrim.
The Young Ireland rebellion of 1798 failed.
The Night of the BIG WIND. In Killarney and its neighborhood there was a terrible hurricane. The town sustained much damage and many houses were shattered.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Siobhan, Cormac, Seamus, Aileen, Colm, Eithne, Kieran, Niall, Paddy.
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac (a') Ghobhainn or Mac Gobhann (Scottish) or Mac (an) Ghabhann (Irish), ‘son of (the) smith’. This name has also been Anglicized as Smith and Smithson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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