When Mary Gowans was born on 15 September 1797, her father, John Gowans, was 25 and her mother, Hellen Chrystie, was 32. She married John Methven on 22 July 1814. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Monifieth, Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1841. She died on 15 January 1868, in Newport, Campbell, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 70.
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Irish and Scottish: variant of McGowan ‘son of the smith’, in which the Gaelic patronymic prefix Mac has been replaced by the English patronymic suffix -s.
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Possible Related NamesMary Gowans (under her married name Methven) travelled with the John Banks Company in 1856. With her were her son David Methven and daughter Caroline Thackham. Caroline was baptised as Cairncross but …
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