wild card Dromora.

[Brosie]

Looking for any information on a Mcgowan family. Mary Jane Mcgowan. b Dromara 1868.
                                                                         Father Samuel Mcgowan. b Ireland.
                                                                         Mother Margargaret Bighams. b Ireland.
Mary Jane Mcgowan marries one of my Robertson's in Irvine Ayrshire 1889, I have the family in Irvine on the 1881 census with a few more siblings. Everything after 1881 I have.
                                                                                                        regards Brosie.

[kingskerswell]

Hi,
    Samuel McGowan married Margaret Bigham in 1865 in Garvaghy Church of Ireland, Banbridge District. The fathers' names were Samuel McGowan and Hugh Bigham.

Regards

[dathai]

there is one birth recorded for the couple in Banbridge on Family Search Births and Baptisms 1620 to 1881.
Samuel McGowan 14 July 1866

[aghadowey]

There are actually several more children of Samuel and Margaret listed in extracted Irish births-

Mary Jane (1868) https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F5VL-VYF
Eliza Anne (1871) https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F5SJ-3D4
Alexander Pack (1873) https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FGPD-ZBC

[iluleah]

Just adding Ros's website where you will find info about Co Down and genealogy
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/

[Brosie]

Hi,
    Samuel McGowan married Margaret Bigham in 1865 in Garvaghy Church of Ireland, Banbridge District. The fathers' names were Samuel McGowan and Hugh Bigham.

Regards

Many thanks Kingskerswell, as always with this site everyone is helpful I appreciate the guidance.
              Cheers From Brosie.

[Brosie]

there is one birth recorded for the couple in Banbridge on Family Search Births and Baptisms 1620 to 1881.
Samuel McGowan 14 July 1866

Many thanks Daithi, I shall search this side of the water to see if Samuel came over with the family.
                kindest regards.
                                        Brosie. 

[Brosie]

There are actually several more children of Samuel and Margaret listed in extracted Irish births-

Mary Jane (1868) https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F5VL-VYF
Eliza Anne (1871) https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F5SJ-3D4
Alexander Pack (1873) https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FGPD-ZBC

Thanks Aghadowey I did have Alexander Pack, I like his middle name a lot the other two are a real bonus.
                         much obliged as always.
                                                             Brosie.

[Brosie]

Just adding Ros's website where you will find info about Co Down and genealogy
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/

Hello iluleah, will check the Ros's site now I know for definate I was in the correct county.
                                                                                             kindest regards.
                                                                                                                    Brosie.