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20732
Surname: Gowan
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 1846 18 March
Place: Murrurundi
Source: MM
Details: Lockup keeper. Dismissed from position and became a schoolmaster


24370
Surname: McGowan
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 1846 30 September
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: Subscriber for the Irish Relief Fund


132959
Surname: McGowan
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 1856 5 January
Place: -
Source: SMH
Details: On List of Electors of the Counties of Northumberland and Hunter supporting Alexander Walker Scott as a candidate in the approaching general election


93591
Surname: McGowan
First Name: James
Ship: Roslin Castle 1833
Date: 1834 26 March
Place: Patrick Plains
Source: GG 1834
Details: Labourer aged 18 from Co. Longford. sallow and frecked coml., brown hair, blue eyes, large scar on (l)side of forepart of head; nail of little finger disfigured. Absconded from No. 14 Road Party, Patrick Plains 17 March


93664
Surname: McGowan
First Name: James
Ship: Roslin Castle 1833
Date: 1834 23 April
Place: -
Source: GG 1834
Details: Pot boy aged 18 from Co. Longford. Absconded from No. 14 road party 7 April. 2nd time running


109077
Surname: McGowan
First Name: James
Ship: Roslin Castle 1833
Date: 1841 27 April
Place: Singleton
Source: SG
Details: Granted Ticket of Leave


162939
Surname: McGowan
First Name: James
Ship: Roslin Castle 1833
Date: 1833
Place: -
Source: AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 684
Details: Age 17. Reads. Pot boy from Longford. Tried 28 February 1832 and sentenced to transportation for life for burglary


168299
Surname: McGowan
First Name: James
Ship: Susan 1836
Date: 1841
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Gaol Description Books 1841 - 1848. Roll 759. Page 4
Details: Born 1811. 5ft 6 1/2in, stout, sallow complexion. Admitted to Newcastle gaol


195900
Surname: McGowan
First Name: James
Ship: Susan 1836
Date: 1836
Place: Sydney
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12189; Item: [X639]; Microfiche: 721
Details: James McGowan age 23. Glassblower (indifferent) from Co. Sligo. Tried at Lancashire (Liverpool) Quarter Sessions 12 January 1835. Sentenced to 14 years transportation for picking pockets.


43310
Surname: McGowan
First Name: James Pattison
Ship: -
Date: 1848 12 July
Place: Muswellbrook
Source: MM
Details: John Brown who had been staying at McGowan's hut found not guilty of stealing pistols belonging to McGowan


206683
Surname: McGowan
First Name: James, Margaret, Mary Ann
Ship: Conrad 1841
Date: December 1841
Place: Port Jackson
Source: State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood New South Wales, Australia; Entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships; Series: 5314; Reel: 1323
Details: James McGowan age 8 years 9 months; Margaret McGowan age 6 years 5 months; Mary Ann McGowan age 3 years 11 months, children of Elizabeth McGowan, assisted immigrants on the Conrad


127257
Surname: McGowan (McGovan)
First Name: James
Ship: Susan 1836
Date: 1840 21 October
Place: Patrick Plains
Source: GG
Details: Glass blower (indifferent) aged 27 from Sligo. Ruddy freckled and pock pitted compl., brown hair, hazel eyes, small scar left side top of forehead, scar left eyebrow, tattoos. Absconded from the escort on his way from Patrick Plains to Maitland 30 September. Charged with highway robbery