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James Joseph McGowan

SligoDrumcliff (Sligo)

Searching for needle in haystack, I realize that McGowan is like Smith. Have written to Drumcliffe twice in the past 30 years of searching to no avail. No records past what I know. James Joseph (born 1860) is my Great Grandfather. I only know this from his death certificate in Bridgeton NJ. Any information on this family would be most appreciated. He married a Catherine Colter from Ballymote in abt 1882, had three boys and came to the United States. 

deedeetee123

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You don't mention the names of the three boys of Joseph and Catherine. I found a birth index record for a Cormack McGowan in 1885 in the Sligo registration district. Drumcliff parish is within the Sligo district. I have no idea if Cormack is a son of Joseph and Catherine but you may want to contact the GRO to get a copy of this birth record. www.groireland.ie  You need to fill out the form and include the registration district, quarter of registration , volume and page number.

Roger McDonnell

Cormack Mcgowan
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: Oct - Dec 1885
Event Place: Sligo, Ireland
Registration Quarter and Year: Oct - Dec 1885
Registration District: Sligo
Age:  
Birth Year (Estimated):  
Mother's Maiden Name:  
Volume Number: 2
Page Number: 252

 

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

I searched a couple different sites for birth index records for your McGowans with no success. Sorry!

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Thank you for taking the time to reply. Boys were MIchael bAug1883, Anthony bSept1884, James Daniel b1886  all in Ballymote?- I am assuming since my records show Katherine from Ballymote.

deedeetee123

hi

hi, i am aware of the name mc gowan from cloonagh co sligo. one maggie mc gowan married my grand uncle martin dunleavy also from cloonagh.. i have found the following info on another forum site posted by one ted maloney who is, i think, located in new jersey. i have tried contacting him by email but no response thus far. i am copying and pasting the info which he posted, as follows.

My grand uncle Martin Dunleavy, born c 1875/ 1880 in Cloonagh, Co. Sligo married Margaret McGowan (d.4-Oct-1944).

They lived in Maugherow Parish and had 9 children:

Patrick (d. 31-Mar-1974, m. Bezzie Waters, Sligo)
Martin (m. Margaret Doyle, Monaghan >Sligo)
Beatrice (Briget - m. Joe Maloney, USA)
Ellie (m. Joe Lynch, Sligo)
Norah, (m. John Gillen, Sligo)
Molly (Mary, m. Jack Costigan, Laois >USA)
Margaret (m. Pat Waters, moved to England c. 1935)
Sarah (b.1921 m. Owen Dolan, Sligo)
Another Daughter died as a teenager...

 

i hope the above is of some help.

 

fergus dunleavy

dublin

fergusdunleavy

Fergus,

I am the Ted Maloney of whom you speak!  My sister just found this post.  My great grandparents, Martin and Maggie McGowan Dunleavy, lived in a small house on the cliff in Cloonagh, Sligo.  As of the 1990s, the McGowans still lived down at the end of the road from the Dunleavy house.  Here's the aerial photo:

http://www.tedmaloney.com/dunleavy_mcgowan.jpg

I'm trying to calculate the relationship, but if Martin Dunleavy was your grandfather's brother, you are my second-cousin first-removed...my father's second cousin.  Your father and my grandmother (and her brother Pat Dunleavy who last lived in the house) were first cousins.

So anyway, when do you want my entire family to come visit?!  Ha ha!

Ted Maloney

Middletown, New Jersey

IrelandXO member

Fergus,

I am the Ted Maloney of whom you speak!  My sister just found this post.  My great grandparents, Martin and Maggie McGowan Dunleavy, lived in a small house on the cliff in Cloonagh, Sligo.  As of the 1990s, the McGowans still lived down at the end of the road from the Dunleavy house.  Here's the aerial photo:

http://www.tedmaloney.com/dunleavy_mcgowan.jpg

I'm trying to calculate the relationship, but if Martin Dunleavy was your grandfather's brother, you are my second-cousin first-removed...my father's second cousin.  Your father and my grandmother (and her brother Pat Dunleavy who last lived in the house) were first cousins.

So anyway, when do you want my entire family to come visit?!  Ha ha!

Ted Maloney

Middletown, New Jersey

IrelandXO member

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