Contents:
http://bombsight.org
Link to Whitcombe photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/14248654@N04/1560281476/in/set-72157602399910991
Valdez / Gowlland connection http://www.rootsweb.com/~canbc/coast.htm
Cowlands mentioned in Canterbury Cathedral Archives.
Piano making Gowlands - http://www.uk-piano.org/piano-forums/piano2630.html
Richard and Celia letters - "Lakeside", Churchfield Road
Baptist Background Information
Neil's Comments on Transcription of GPG's Notes
Photos from Australia for later use
William Gowlland's two "Bomb" patents
History of Ophthalmoscope - Richard's article - http://bjo.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/86/6/602
Canadian Book mentioning Jack Ewing Gowlland
1830 Map of London and Booth Map of Poverty and How he produced it and Introductory Article
National Archives Currency Converter
Victoria - Australia - Certificate copies
Victoria Links - Marriage (TIF), Marriage (GIF) and Death
Ancestry Links - April 2006
Sarah Gowlland, husband and three children
http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=8767&iid=SRYRG9_356_359-0812&fn=Sarah&ln=Galland&pid=6337920 (scarcely legible) and
William Mathematical Gowlland born 1822
Alma Mayes
Eight children
http://pocklington.portland.co.uk/familytree1/gp20.html#head1
Researchers
The following list of independent specialists in Kentish family and local history research offer their services to enquirers and will usually charge a fee for any work undertaken on your behalf. Canterbury Cathedral Archives are unable to recommend specifically any particular researcher.
Miss Gillian Rickard BA, DLH, 99 Strangers Lane, Canterbury, Kent CT1 3XN. www.kentgen.com
(Unavailable for research until 1st May 2008)
David Wright MA, PhD, 71 Island Wall, Whitstable, Kent CT5 1EL.
www.canterhill.co.uk/davideastkent/about.htm
Mrs Margaret Lewis, 42 Graystone Road, Whitstable, Kent CT5 2JX
email: mr.lewis@which.net
Sarah Talbutt, Roots in Kent, Springfield, Mereworth Road, West Peckham, Maidstone, Kent. ME18 5SH
email: sarah@roots-in-kent.com
Diane Thomas, Dip.Loc. Hist. 21 Bayham Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN2 5HR
Tel: 01892 522543. email: di@bayham76.fsnet.co.uk
Duncan W Harrington, LHG, FSA, FSG, Ashton Lodge, Church Road, Lyminge, Folkestone, Kent CT18 8JA
email: www.historyresearch.co.uk
Mrs Veronica Craig-Mair Boundar House, Stodmarsh Road, Canterbury, Kent CT3 4AH email: kentkin@waitrose.com
Mrs Yolanda Dunn, 61 College Avenue, Gillingham, Kent ME7 5HY
Tel: O1634 325077. email: yolanded@yahoo.com
Jennifer Killick 41 Reachfields Hythe Kent CT21 6LS
email: enquiry@brickwallresearch.co.uk
Robert Chown 76 Station Road West Canterbury CT2 8AN
Tel: 01227 459209
email: bob.chown@btinternet.com
Goulder / Golder
Details of assorted Goulders and Golders - mostly unchecked and with no guarantee of relevance.
1 Appraisal of 1747. Name at top is certainly Joseph GOULDER, but the signature is clearly Joseph GOWLLAND. An early theory was that the document was drawn up on the basis that it was to have been signed by a Joseph Goulder but, he being unable to attend, his place was taken by Joseph Gowlland. Upon reflection, through, this seems unlikely - the existence of both a Joseph Goulder and a Joseph Gowlland, both living in Buckland [by Dover] is too much of a coincidence. Perhaps the clerk didn't know of the correct spelling, or he couldn't be bothered to get it right. [There are, interestingly, NO "Goulder" entries in IGI for the relevant period, other than in Nottinghamshire - plenty of entries for "Golder" but none for "Goulder"]
[Incidentally, Simon Starr, the co-signatory, was, according to the IGI, almost certainly born in Dover on 23rd October 1687, the son of Thomas Starr and Ann née Gerry: he married Susanna Hoyle at Dover St Mary on 30th March 1714, and died on 7th December 1754. He and Susanna had a son, also called Simon, on 3rd April 1721, also baptised at Dover St Mary; and it is therefore conceivable that he, rather than his father, could have been the co-signatory]
2
Birth records from St Andrew's, Buckland-by-Dover, for three children of George Gowlland (b 1740MC) and Ann n
ée Norris, namely Stephen (b 1763) here, Elizabeth (b 1765) here and Joseph (b 1768) here.
3
4
http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/MIs/MIsDoverStMarys/01.htm Memorial Inscriptions No 107 from St Mary's, Dover. On a black Marble slab: Here lieth the body of Dockter John GOLDER fower times mayor of this towne & alsoe Katherine his wife by who he had issue 4 Sonnes & one Daughter, he died the 12th day of May 1689 aged 82 Years & about nine Monthes. Alsoe here lieth the bodies of Thomas Golder & William Golder two of the Sonnes of the said John & Katharine. Here lies the Body of Jacob GOLDER Son of George and Mary Golder. He died Ap. 16 1740 Aged 29. Here also lieth Interred ye Body of Mary Golder who departed this life the 2d. of September 1757 Aged 88 Years.
5
From IGI, the Kent Golders recorded are:-
John Golder, born c1560, had a daughter Alice, born Dover 1591, and a son, John, born Dover 1584, who had a daughter Alice, born Dover 1610. Quite possibly the John Golder of Dover mentioned above, born c1607, was also a child of his - John married Katherine, and they had five children, two of the sons being named Thomas and William.
Also recorded is a Bartholomew Golder, born Worth 1680, who married Eliza Neame in 1706.
The remaining records hereafter for Golders all come from Folkestone. Thomas (b c1728) married Jane Clark in 1748. Their son Stephen (b 1754) married Ann Jacob in 1778. They had at least seven children:-
Martha b 1779. In 1802 she married Richard Godden
Joseph Jacob b 1781
Stephen b 1784
Phineas John b 1786
James Large b 1788
John Watson b 1790
Charles b 1792. In 1812 he married Mary Rolfe. From this marriage there are at least eight children:-
William Rolfe b 1817
Mary b 1820
Mary Rolfe b 1824
Margaret b 1826
Jane Rolfe b 1828
Stephen b 1830
Mary b 1837
Dover Tombstones
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http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/MIs/MIsDoverStMartins/01.htm
7. Under the tomb near this wall lieth the bodies of Captain Samuel Tavenor | his wife Susanna and his son Samuel and in a vault on ye North side of | said tomb lieth the bodies of Mr. James Redding and his wife Priscilla who was one of the daughters of the above mentioned Captain Samuel Tavenor | Also the bodies of Mr. Sampson Peirce and his wife Susanna who was | one of the daughters of the said Mr. James Redding with several of their respective sons and daughters who at several periods departed this life | from this year 1683 and 1786. Also Mr. James Peirce, Gent. died the 11th of April 1791 aged 77 years.
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http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/MIs/MIsDoverStMarys/01.htm
107. On a black Marble slab: Here lieth the body of Dockter John GOLDER fower times mayor of this towne & alsoe Katherine his wife by who he had issue 4 Sonnes & one Daughter, he died the 12th day of May 1689 aged 82 Years & about nine Monthes. Alsoe here lieth the bodies of Thomas Golder & William Golder two of the Sonnes of the said John & Katharine. Here lies the Body of Jacob GOLDER Son of George and Mary Golder. He died Ap. 16 1740 Aged 29. Here also lieth Interred ye Body of Mary Golder who departed this life the 2d. of September 1757 Aged 88 Years.
North Kent entries
Indexed transcript of Frindsbury baptisms, marriages and burials 1669-1812 for Gowland and variants:
1702 May 6 John son of John Gowland, Excise man of Frindsbury, and Catherine bapt.
1704 Aug 21 Elizabeth dau of ditto bapt.
1707 Nov 30 Elizabeth dau of John Gowland buried.
1710 May 30 John Gowland buried.
1713 Aug 28 Katherine Gowland, widow, buried.
Renaming of Gowlland Island as Curwen Island
Link is http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=6554. Came from Yahoo and there are possibly more . . . .
Possible inclusion in article on Royal Hospital Schools
Dear John, I am so sorry we have not quite got it right yet. I have found a copy of an article from the Illustrated London News dated 1848 which describes the state of affairs at the Royal Hospital Schools a little before the Gowlland boys went there. I was wrong in thinking that the Upper and Lower Schools formed a continuum. They served a rather different clientele. The entrants to the Lower School came from a lower stratum of the naval population, and were often illiterate on entry. Those going to the Upper School were more often, although not exclusively, the sons of commissioned officers and had to pass a difficult entry test. Thus those in the Upper School were ‘officer material’ and entered the school aged 10. At 13 they, or perhaps only some of them, proceeded to the Nautical School (part of the same establishment) to undertake strictly professional training. 8 of the best graduates were, at the age of 15, given an outfitting allowance of ₤20 and posted as Captain or Master’s Mates or Assistants. This must have been the case with John (Jack) Gowlland (who was Captain, or ‘Head Boy’ of the combined schools) and saw active service in the Baltic during the Crimean War. The case of James is more puzzling, as he was 15 years old when he met the Prince in Gibraltar and evidently had met him some time before. Perhaps some of the boys left at 13 and were given practical training while at sea. The Prince was only 14.
Neil's comments on transcription of GPG's pencil notes of his interview with Richard
Very many thanks indeed for the notes. Thanks for the offer but there is no point, certainly at this time, in scanning them - you know your father's writing far better than I could. In any event, once I recover from summer laziness I will focus on trying to track Joseph's birth. At the moment, I feel that the best haystacks to start with are villages to the south and south-east of Canterbury, especially Ickham, where Susanna was born (providing it was the right Susanna I found).
However, one of the things I am reflecting on is whether or not our name (including variants) has its origin in the NE of England. These are some notes I sent to Rosemary recently:
There is one aspect that I am looking into: the connection with the North of England Gowland's. It began when Richard Joscelyne asked me whether I had come across any connection in the 18th century. The answer is no and in any event, if there is a connection, it would be much older and probably impossible to trace to any one Gowland. That got me started and the first thing I did was to check out an on-line Danish dictionary, given your father's suggestion that the name came from the Danish for Gulls' Land. The Danish for seagull is "moge" (the o has an accent I cannot replicate) and the Norse is similar. By chance I also came across a few translations of Norman-French (heavily influenced by Norse) and gull is again similar (mavar). On the other hand, the Danish dictionary gives "guld" as the translation for gold. I also found the word "gowland" in a Middle English dictionary: it is the present participle of the verb meaning "to cry, to howl" (unfortunately I cannot access the site at the moment).
The problem is, of course, that we do not know the original root of the name and how it may have been spelled. Unfortunately, none of us, so far as I know, is an etymologist.
The next intriguing thing is the distribution of Gowland (as well as Gouland, Goland and even Goldland) according to the IGI, though I am not sure how credible a data base it is for this sort of exercise. Apart from the North of England, there are only sporadic Gowland or similar records until we get to SE England and London. Apart from the non-IGI family research references to Gowland in the Canterbury area and to a fairly large number, relatively speaking, of Gowlands in the 18th century plus a few in the 17th, there is the very interesting, mainly 17th century grouping in the Rye area. The North of England Gowlands do not seem to have shown much of a propensity for migration. And, if the Rye group were migrants, why would they migrate from their farms in the North (I assume they were mainly farmers or agricultural workers) to a probably similar occupation just about as far away from their origins as is possible? The other interesting thing is the London Gowlands. I can well imagine migration from the South-East of England but I find it a little difficult to imagine a fairly large migration in the 18th century from the North, where I would have thought that the factories that were developed in the North during the Industrial Revolution would have been a more likely destination.
It's all very hazy and I doubt we will ever know the answer. However, I do not think we should automatically assume that the SE Gowlands etc come from those of the North. I feel that it is equally likely that the SE Gowlands could be indigenous and that the similarity of the names is coincidental.
Not very well formulated yet but the important bit is the conclusion. I was interested to see that your father mentions a George Gowland in Icklesham. He must have been the one who died in 1618 and whose will (I found the reference in ancestry.co.uk with an indication that Gouland was an alternative spelling) was proved the following year. It was this which started me on the "Rye area" Gowland and name variations. They appear also appear in Brede, Hastings, Playden, Peasmarsh, Crowhurst and Brenzett.
One of the most interesting of the family letters is the one dated 16/3/1951 from your father to our Brigadier, which lists villages where traces of Gowlands had been found. The notes you sent me add Doddington, Dunford, which I assume is a village in Kent, and Halstead as well as references to Gowlands elsewhere. All of this is useful in helping to establish that Gowland was not a particularly unusual name in the South-East.
Photos from Australia for later use
Jessie Fred Louise Josecelyne
Cowland mentions in Canterbury Cathedral Archives.
[ 1 ] CCA-DCb-Box/9/4 Monition from court of Arches to cite Stephen Cowland in cause of Margaret Sedger v Stephen Cowland 1613
[ 9 ] CKS-Q/M//SB/1016 Examination of Joan Hayward regarding her child; reputed father either Francis Cowland of Penshurst or John Woodgate, servant to Edmund Stretfylde [? 1612]
[ 10 ] CKS-Q/M/SRc/1600/65 Adrian Long, labourer, in £10, to appear and answer, concerning the receiving or buying of certain stolen wheat; surety, Thomas Cowland, yeoman. 8 Dec 1600
[ 11 ] CKS-Q/M/SRc/1606/58 Nathaniel Hart of Norwood in Wormshill, husbandman, in £10, to appear and to keep the peace towards John Pepar of the Isle of Thanet; sureties, William Gilford of Bredgar and Stephen Cowland of Tunstall. 28 March 1606
[ 12 ] CKS-Q/M/SRc/1606/270 Henry Whitlock of Oare, yeoman, in £10, to appear and to keep the peace towards David Downe; surety, Stephen Cowland of Luddenham, yeoman. 30 Dec. 1606
[ 13 ] CKS-Q/M/SRc/1610/38 Thomas Paine of Davington, husbandman, in £10, to appear, answer and to be of good behaviour; sureties, Thomas Cowland of Ospringe, and Richard Port of Seasalter, yeomen. 21 April 1610
[ 14 ] CKS-Q/S/R/2/m.1 Session at Canterbury, 13th January, 1600/1 1600/1
[ 15 ] CKS-U269/A325/13 Receipts 1732-7
CCA BMD entries to be noted April 2009
Assorted CCA BMD entries which may be of interest at some stage . . .
Blackfriars Baptist Chapel Canterbury
B 1792 – 1808 nine Peirce/Pearce children to John & Elizabeth
B 29/12/1807 Hannah Gardner, d of Robert & Hannah
M 23/10/1711 John Hammond and Elizabeth Pierce
D 05/05/1716 Elizabeth, wife of Stephen Golder
M 01/05/1717 Stephen Golder and Anne Pilcher
D 24/04/1853 George Greenland, infant
B c 1670 Mary and John Gardner, parents Phinnil & Ann
M 01/08/1670 Robert Gallant and ?
M 06/10/1677 William Peirce and Susan Ford
B 13/05/1688 Robert, s of Robert Symons
D 19/07/1692 Robert Symons
B 24/10/1697 Elizabeth, d of Will. & Jane Symons
M 22/11/1719 Jeremiah Howland and Elizabeth Clements
B 1737 Elizabeth Pearce, d of John & Ann
B 1738 Mary Pearce, d of John & Ann
B 1740 John Pearce, s of John & Ann
D 28/01/1741 John Pearce, aged 72
B 1742 Ann Pierce, d of John & Ann
M 10/10/1705 Elizabeth Symons to Jeoffrey Coppin
M 16/10/1705 Thomas Golder to Anne Hamond
M 01/05/1717 Stephen Golder to Ann Pilcher [but also recorded at St Nicholas, New Romney - see above]
M 01/06/1719 Henry Rous to Mary Castle
M 17/11/1719 William Markett to Jane Godden
D 1715 & 1720 Two Golder children Burials
D 21/07/1723 Elizabeth, wife of Stephen Golder
B 09/02/1728 Alice Castle, d of Robert Castle and Alice
B 16/2/1757 Margaret, d of William & Mary Woodruffe
B 29/9/1760 Jane, d of William & Mary Woodruffe
B 23/10/1749 Sarah, d of Thos & Sarah Gardener
Many Simmons plus other spellings – by 1760 Samuel Simmons was Town Clerk.
St Leonards Deal
B 17/02/1711 Elizabeth, d of Thomas Cowlland & Margarett
B 28/02/1713 Elizabeth, d of John Goulden (?) & Elizabeth
B 24/06/1713 Thomas, so of Thos Guelding & Elizabeth
B 20/11/1712 Sarah, d of John Gulland & Mary
B 23/01/1774 Jane, d of Henry and Mary Gardiner
B 24/12/1777 Sarah, d of Henry & Mary Gardener
B 25/04/1778 Jane Elizabeth, d of Henry & Mary Gardener
B 14/01/1781 Mary, d of Richard & Susanna Golder
B 11/02/1781 Henry, s of Henry & Mary Gardiner
B 18/02/1781 Susanna, d of James & Ann Gardner
B 27/03/1782 Susanna, d of Richard & Susanna Golder
B 17/06/1774 Thos, s of Thos & Sarah Woodruffe
B 10/12/1777 Jane, d of Thos & Sarah Woodruffe
B 11/12/1778 Sarah, d of Thos & Sarah Woodruffe
B 21/11/1779 Elizabeth, d of Henry & Sarah West
B 12/01/1776 John, s of William & Mary Thornton
B 10/01/1776 Mary, d of William & Ann Thornton
D 24/02/1770 Henry Gardiner
D 23/05/1770 Stephen Gardiner
St Mary Bredin, Canterbury
M 08/05/1722 John Bissaker and Ann Pilcher
St Mary Magdalena, Canterbury
B 03/09/1749 George Pierce, s of John Pierce & Hannah
B 25/12/1788 James Pierce, s of James Pierce & Sarah
St Mary, Minster, Kent [next parish to Sandwich]
M 19/09/1746 Elizabeth Bisacher (b c1725 at Molash, Kent) & Richard Simmons
St Mary, Wingham [next parish to Ickham]
M 03/10/1710 Elizabeth Bessaker & John Castle
Presbyterian Chapel, Tenterden
B 08/09/1769 James Pierce, s of George Pierce & Elizabeth
St Giles, Kingston
M 12/10/1774 James Pierce & Elizabeth
Rochester
B 12/02/1823 Frederic John Bissaker, s of John Thomas Bissaker & Sarah.
00 St Mary’s, Chilham 17 Aug 1718 Baptism of John Clifford (? Mother’s maiden name?)
Parents shown as Andrew & Mary – no maiden name
July 1720 Baptism of Andrew Clifford
One baptism only – nothing for 1721
8 March 1727 Burial of Mary Clifford
Records stop at 1720, but found in B Ts – year is 1727, not 1726, and name is Clifford
Gowland lawyer - Also http://www.genealogiadelujan.com.ar/GENEALOGIAS/wc06/wc06_257.html for Ralph Gowland's descendants
William Gowlland's two "Bomb" Patents
Sankey Photos from Neil 23/11/2005
Huguenots
http://userpages.burgoyne.com/bdespain/famgen/desg024.htm
http://www.explorevancouverisland.com/Map_Gowlland_Tod_Park_Vancouver_Island_BC_Canada.htm
Dynamic Element Test
Changing colours for hyperlink text - go to "Format - Background"
Experimental sizes for oval pictures . . . .
Canadian Book mentioning Jack Ewing Gowlland
"A Peculiar People - The Doukhobors" by Aylmer Maude. Greenfield Books Limited - Winnipeg.
Workhouses information
http://www.motco.com/Map/81003/
According to Alister of UKGE Limited, he uses Dreamweaver (text), Fireworks (graphics), Macromedia Flash (dynamic effects) and FreeHand (don't know). But, he stressed 12.1.06, they are difficult to learn and are not as intuitive as a Microsoft programme.
TV programme recommended MS Digital Image Suite, but this seems to have been replaced by a more elaborate version - web address in Amazon is http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009XE1YY/ref=ed_qpe_dp_1_2/026-8205719-5954007
Lakeside, Churchfield Road, Ealing - photos for adding later to the letters.
Taken from troublesome Index page, which insists on using Word rather than FrontPage.
20th April 2016
Photo of Shirley Park Hotel added to biography of Egbert Gowlland – click here.
6th April 2016
A relative in Australia very kindly sent us originals of two letters from Geoff Gowlland on the subject of the Family Tree – one of four pages to Bruch Berckleman click here) and the other of one page to Ruth Harrison (click here).
27th February 2016
A report following on from that below concerning the Gowlland Bombora – click http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/northern-beaches/gowlland-bombora-ended-a-brilliant-career/news-story/e948265ad8f16c1c8ce2f84b041e98e1
10th February 2016
Report in the Manly Daily of a near-fatal encounter with the Gowlland Bombora - click http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/northern-beaches/dangerous-bombora-almost-claims-three-more-lives/news-story/23cbce2d9103a8ea79e37a52970cd149 Manly is a suburb to the north of Sydney.
15th December 2015
Further information regarding the two books written by Henry Orford Gowlland – click here.
5th October 2015
List of monuments in Port Royal Parish Church added to biography of James E Gowlland (died 1860) - http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Barche15.htm[
Inclusion of John George Blantyre Gowlland in Victoria Gazette of Medical Practitioners for 1913 (page 120) - click here
Details added to John Thomas Ewing’s biography of the quotation from his unpublished journal recorded in “Professional Savages” by Roslyn Poignant (Pub 2004) page 48 – click here
31st August 2015
Death in 2010 of great-grandson of James Carter Gowlland added to his biography - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56978832
12th March 2015
Land Tax records of 1798 showing Josiah Gowlland was a tenant of Mr Harnett, who was a witness at Josiah’s wedding – here.
11th March 2015
Correction of Christian name to “Jane” of bride to John Gowland’s 1681 wedding – click here.
Note re Peter John Riber Matthieson’s three wives added to his biography – click here.
Agreement from 1892 added to Henry Gowlland’s biography – click here.
Henry Gowlland’s obituary published – click here.
A very comprehensive article from 1974 added to the biography of Henry Orford Gowlland – click here.
Incomplete reorganising of biography of Henry Orford Gowlland – click here.
Further work on the Patents – click here.
First steps towards publishing a detailed summary of the Gowlland patents – click here.
Further information added to biography of Alfred Gowlland (b 1839) – click here.
Details provided of the existence of a further Gowlland microscope – click here.
Further media interest in Geoff Gowlland’s cine films and photographs – click here.
Link to State Library of Queensland added to biography of John Thomas Ewing Gowlland – click here.
Note added re transcription error in IGI record of Josiah Gowlland’s baptism – click here.
William Gowlland Ltd catalogue of 1912 available – click here.
Clarification of speculation regarding parentage of Richard Symonds Gowlland – click here.
Surname of bride in 1934 wedding of Dennis Geoffrey Warren Gowlland amended to Wenham.
1883 portrait of George Gowlland 1838 – 1911 published after restoration – click here.
Probate of 1898 for Richard Symonds Gowlland published – click here.
Indexed transcript of Frindsbury baptisms, marriages and burials 1669-1812 for Gowland and variants:
1702 May 6 John son of John Gowland, Excise man of Frindsbury, and Catherine bapt.
1704 Aug 21 Elizabeth dau of ditto bapt.
1707 Nov 30 Elizabeth dau of John Gowland buried.
1710 May 30 John Gowland buried.
1713 Aug 28 Katherine Gowland, widow, buried.
1871 census record published for Louisa Mary Yeames Bouverie – click here.
Settlement record for 1821 in Edmonton published for Josiah Gowlland – here.
Second Letter of Recommendation from James West Gowlland published – here.
Additional biographical details added for Eliza Jane Gowlland (b 1847) – click here.
More investigation is needed . . . . .
Various other apprenticeship records published – click here.
Entries added to the Glossary in respect of:
a) Privy Council Extracts from reign of Edward VI - click here.
b) Licences for marriages in southern England 1632 – 1714 - click here
c) Freemen of Canterbury - click here
BMD Certificates published over past ten days added to the respective indices.
Also published (here) is a baptism record from St Peter, Hammersmith, in the name of “Ada Gowlland, daughter of Frederick and Anne, residence 15 William Street, born August 28th 1882, father’s occupation bootmaker [?]”; but this record should be treated with some scepticism as there is no known Frederick Gowlland and the transcription of the badly written surname is uncertain.
Birth certificate and baptism certificate published for Richard Gowlland born 1877 – click here.
Notes on an apparent branch in Paris in 1922 added to information on Gowllands Limited – click here.
Updated Family Tree published as PDF file – click here.
Updated Family Tree published as PDF file – click here.
More details added regarding antecedents of Peggy Thornton, wife of Josiah Gowlland – click here.
Some notes added on Goulder and Golder - here.
More information on Baptists added – click here.
More information published regarding James Fenn – click here.
Joseph Theophilus Gowland added to “Loose Ends” – click here.
Cheriton in Kent identified as location of Stephen Gowlland’s mill in 1769 prior to his move to Canterbury the following year (click here) – more information will be found on this link taken from “Kent Dissenting Ministers’ Declarations 1689 – 1836” by Gillian Rickard B.A. Dip.Loc.Hist [ISBN 0-9521828-3-1]. Available from her at GRKent@aol.com.
14th December 2017
Full family tree from FTM on Read website - http://www.readbag.com/gowlland-me-uk-008-gowlland-21012010
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Per Giles Metcalfe 23/7/2005
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