Ogle Robert Gowan (1803 - 1876)

Ancestors Descendants

Biography

Ogle Gowan, born in 1803 in County Wexford, Ireland, was the son of John Gowan and Margaret Hogan.^[1]Ogle's father was a prominent Orangeman, who led a corps known as the "Black Mob" which was accused of committing atrocities against Catholic civilians at the time of the Wexford Rebellion. In 1829 Ogle emigrated to Upper Canada (Escott Park, Leeds County) where he became a journalist, farmer and politician.

He married Francis Anne Colclough-Turner of Wexford and they had 11 children. After Francis's death in 1852, Gowan married Alice Hitchcock in 1866.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "John Hunter Gowan II," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Hunter_Gowan_II&oldid=785935186 (accessed August 17, 2017).
2. ↑ Hereward Senior, “GOWAN, OGLE ROBERT,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 10, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed August 16, 2017. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gowan_ogle_robert_10E.html.

See also:

• https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1871&op=img&id=4396300_00371 In 1871 census with second wife Alice and Mary Ferguson aged 12 maybe a grand daughter
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68234899/ogle-robert-gowan
• Genealogy of the Clan Gowan. James H.B. Gowan. Page 72 .