McGOWAN, Michael ¹

Michael married Mary ROURKE, daughter of John RORKE and Isabella WILSON, on 18 Jun 1886 in RC Chapel, Mossend, Lanarkshire, Scotland.¹ (Mary ROURKE was born on 5 Dec 1865 in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland ⁴ and died in 1935 in Tessfield Vue, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland.)

Michael next married George GORDON, son of John GORDON and Unknown, on 20 Jun 1634 in Belhelvie Parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.^{2 3} (George GORDON was christened on 17 Nov 1720 in Gartly Parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"FORBES
PAT
MARGT. BLAKHALL/
20/06/1634
174 10 / 140
BELHELVIE"

from Index of Marriages




"Instrument of Sasine to Patrick Forbes and Margaret Blackhall of the Maynes of Blackhall. 8 April, 1650: "The grant by John Blackhall of that Ilk of the Mains of Blackhall to Patrick Forbes and his own eldest sister is signed at Berrahillock on the 3rd of January, 1650, and witnessed by two sons of the infefted, namely, Hew and William Forbes, and by Thomas Ethrington, the clerk to William Chalmer, the notary public who drew the deed, some others also being present. ( Aberdeenshire Sasines, Vol. XIV., fol. 232.)"

from The Blackhalls of that Ilk and Barra




"John Forbes (Minister of Kincardine O'Neil), born 1643, son of 1680 Patrick F. (descended of Pitsligo), and Margaret Blackball of the family of that ilk"

from Fasti Ecclesiae ^{2 3 5}