THE GOWLLAND
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The earliest known use of the
Gowlland name - 1748
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Dedication and Acknowledgements.
This website is dedicated to the memory of
Geoffrey Price Gowlland (1908 – 1974), who for more than fifteen years, during
war-time and afterwards, devoted literally hundreds of hours of work to
compiling the most complete Family Tree of the Gowllands ever assembled.
Some ten years ago his daughter Rosemary took up the task of carrying
on his work, using the more up-to-date resources of a computerised
database (“Family Tree Maker”), and obtaining information from archives, both
national and private, and from the internet.
Additional information has been kindly provided
by John
Hollingsworth Gowlland (1940 - ), Neil Gowlland (1939 - ) and Juliet Phillips
(1940 - ).
The website has been put together by Geoffrey’s
son John Gowlland.
If you would like any further information regarding anything to do with the Gowlland Family, please contact by e-mail Mrs Rosemary Milton-Thompson (née Gowlland).
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The
Gowlland Family, and in particular the direct descendants of the correspondents
included herein, assert their rights to the copyright of this web site and all
its contents: unauthorised reproduction by any media is specifically forbidden
without the written permission of Rosemary
Milton-Thompson and/or John Gowlland.
3rd November 2011
Details of TV programme using some of Geoff Gowlland’s
cine film of the Battersea Pleasure Gardens in 1951 – click here.
7th May 2011
Portraits of Henry Orford and Jane Orford née Goffée
from about 1865 added to article on the Orfords – click here.
5th April 2011
More complete address information taken from England
1911 Census Summary Books added to certain entries in the 1911 census index.
3rd March 2011
Partial List of Gowllands Limited agentsd and buyers
from about 1970-1980 added to notes on Gowllands Limited – click here.
22nd February 2011
William Gowlland Ltd catalogue of 1912 available –
click here.
14th January 2011
Poll list of 1705 mentioning a John Gowland of St
Clement’s parish, Middlesex (London) added to Loose Ends record of John
Gowland’s 1716 apprenticeship – click here.
10th January 2011
Clarification of speculation regarding parentage of
Richard Symonds Gowlland – click here.
6th January 2011
Further information regarding the dating and
provenance of the Gowlland Clock added to Glossary – click here.
Also notes added re John Gowland of Frindbury (b 1702) and his
apprenticeship in 1716 to Henry Thornton of Rochester – click here.
18th November 2010
Additional details regarding the final years of
George Castle Gowlland added to his biography – click here.
7th November 2010
Surname of bride in 1934 wedding of Dennis Geoffrey
Warren Gowlland amended to Wenham.
23rd October 2010
Link published (here) to service records of Geoffrey
Cathcart Gowlland and of Eric Fulton Gowlland: and Edmonton newspaper reference
from 17th May 1933 (here)
to Gladys Gowlland.
7th October 2010
Three new references added to biography of John
Thomas Ewing Gowlland (here, here and here), and one to
that of Henry Orford Gowlland (here).
20th September 2010
1883 portrait of George Gowlland 1838 – 1911
published after restoration – click here.
14th September 2010
In
September 2010, in a bound volume entitled "Revenue Cruisers 1671 -
1928", held at the National Archives, Kew, within their Customs records,
was found a mention of Richard Gowlland 1795 - 1865 as former commander of the
Vigilant - click here.
24th August 2010
Probate of 1898 for Richard Symonds Gowlland
published – click here.
5th August 2010
Loose Ends reorganised and re-indexed – here. Also section added dealing with John
Gowland and family of Frindsbury, Rochester, North Kent.
15th June 2010
Record published (here)
for the conviction in 1831 at Canterbury Assizes of a Henry Gowlland on two
counts of larceny. At present we do not
believe that this person belongs to our line.
11th June 2010
The search for the seventeenth century forebears of
Joseph Gowlland has reluctantly been brought to an end, since all available
possibilities seem to have been exhausted.
A pity. Should any more clues
emerge, the search will, of course, be resumed.
One final possibility, so far with no established
connection, which is being borne in mind is this entry:
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.
Frindsbury is a suburb of Strood, which, for
administrative purposes, is now amalgamated with Rochester. The above five entries are apparently the
only Gowland mentions in the records of The Medway Studies Centre (Strood)
between 1669 and 1812, but I shall double-check this when possible.
The IGI shows a marriage on 14th January 1700 (two years before the first of the two
births recorded above) at St Nicholas, Rochester, between John Gowland and
Catherine Harriett. This also needs
investigation.
The main interest is the profession of
“Exciseman”. They would move from port
to port; and Joseph’s family, of course, was established in Dover in the
1730s. Probably nothing significant,
but worth noting . . . .
30th April 2010
Hypertext link (here) added to Glossary section
regarding Freemen of Canterbury for University of Berkeley’s on-line
transcription of J M Cowper’s “The roll of the
freemen of the city of Canterbury from A.D. 1392-to 1800". Also reference (here)
from 1351 to “John Goland” of the manor of Wolford, co. Warwick, from “Grantees
etc of Office 1350 – 1354”, from the Patent Rolls (the Chancery enrolments of
royal letters patent) from the reign of Edward III.
26th April 2010
Publishing of page from parochial register of St Mary
the Virgin, Dover, listing Dissenters, and naming nine births to Sampson and Susanna
Pierce (née Reading) between 1713 and 1730 – here.
16th April 2010
Settlement Certificate IN for Joseph Gowland and
family added to Loose Ends – click here. Ten baptism entries from Eyethorne Chapel
for children from several Peirce families added to notes on Baptists – here. Did they move en masse to a different chapel
in 1805?
7th April 2010
Edward Lake Gowlland’s entry in the 1926 “Directory
of Medical Practitioners in the Provinces” published – click here.
1934 entry in Army List added to Geoffrey Cathcart Gowlland’s biography
– click here.
2nd April 2010
1675 Notice of Intended Bridegroom (Marriage Licence Application)
for Archdeaconry of Lewes (East Sussex) published in name of Robert Gowland of
Crowhurst – click here. Note that Crowhurst is about three miles
north-west of Hastings, and about seven miles south-west of Udimore and Brede.
Geoffrey Cathcart Gowlland’s entry in the Fettes School record for 1896
entrants published – click here.
30th March 2010
Old Bailey record from 1845 published showing
conviction for larceny of Thomas Gowlland (born c1821), son of Josiah Gowlland
– click here.
28th March 2010
Extract from Post Office Commercial and Professional
Directory of 1856 published mentioning James West Gowlland and Peter Yeames
Gowlland – click here. Also Merchant Taylors’ School register from
1875 mentioning Peter Yeames Gowlland – click here. And listing of Customs’ Establishment at
London Docks in 1858 mentioning Richard Gowlland – click here.
27th March 2010
Further information regarding the Settlement
Certificate in the name of Joseph Theophilus Gowland and family added to the
notes about him in “Loose Ends” - click here. Additional records added to Glossary item on
Polls – click here.
26th March 2010
New portrait of George Gowlland (1838 – 1911)
published – click here. This is the painting which Melissa Gowlland,
in a letter to Geoff Gowlland dated 8th January 1942, so memorably described as
“I have an
oil and water colour of our grandfather George you might care to view,
looking like the King of the Cannibals – sports an outsize in black whiskers
and beard – very fierce all together”
and, in a letter dated 5th April 1942, “It belonged to Margaret [George’s oldest
daughter, born 1860], and Charlie [Charles Septimus, the youngest child, born 1878] being a younger brother
could hardly refuse to let me have it when she died”.
18th March
2010
Link to The Surman Index Online of Congregational
ministers (here) added to notes
on James Fenn - note there is no reference to Stephen
Gowlland.
Photos added to notes on Dr Williams’s Library – here. Also some additions made to
article on “Baptists” – here.
14th March 2010
Details added of three marriages and twenty-nine (!)
children of Thomas Sankey (b 1738), father of Sarah Sankey (b 1771), wife of
Richard Symons Gowlland (b 1770), married 1792 – click here and here. Also details of Sarah’s brother’s having
organised a collection for the families of survivors of the Battle of the Nile
in 1798 – here.
8th March 2010
1871
census record published for Louisa Mary Yeames Bouverie – click here.
3rd
March 2010
Settlement
record for 1821 in Edmonton published for Josiah Gowlland – here.
23rd
February 2010
Second
Letter of Recommendation from James West Gowlland published – here.
19th
February 201
Note
of Letter of Reference for a police recruit provided by James West Gowlland
added to his biography – click here.
16th
February 2010
Additional
biographical details added for Eliza Jane Gowlland (b 1847) – click here.
12th
February 2010
Notes
added to the Glossary on Settlement Certificates (here), and Parish Apprenticeships and
Illegitimacy (here).
9th
February 2010
1716
Apprenticeship record published (here
and here)
for John Gowland, “son of John Gowland of Rochester, Gent., dec” to Henry
Thornton, Citizen [?] and Clock Maker”.
The Thorntons are linked to the known Gowllands from Canterbury and
Dover by virtue of (a) Mary Thornton witnessing a birth of one of the children
of Stephen Gowlland (b1747), (b) Peggy/Margaret Thornton marrying Josiah
Gowlland in 1807, and (c) Elizabeth Thornton’s 1832 burial in the Countess of
Huntingdon’s Connexion chapel in Dover (one of the Baptist places of worshhip
used by early Gowllands). This is the
first time we have established a connection, albeit tenuous, between the known South
Kent Gowl(l)ands and the far less well established North Kent Gowlands.
As
to the deceased father mentioned above, there is a record of a marriage on 14th
January 1700 between John Gowland and Catherine Harnett at St Nicholas,
Rochester. The apprentice could have
been a child of this marriage, born two years after the wedding. Regrettably there is no trace of the death
of a John Gowland between 1702 and 1716.
More
investigation is needed . . . . .
Various
other apprenticeship records published – click here.
7th
February 2010
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
5th
February 2010
Licence
application found (click here
and here)
for Robert Gowland and Elizabeth Lucke, both of Crowhurst, East Sussex, dated
10th July 1675. The marriage took place
five days later at All Saints, Hastings (here):
note variations in both names.
4th
February 2010
Record
(click here)
published of the 1837 imprisonment for six weeks of William Gowland, aged
twenty, convicted of larceny at Canterbury Assizes. This might be the fifth child and third son of Josiah
Gowlland and Peggy Thornton, or, less probably, the sixth child and fourth son
of Stephen Gowlland and Jane West: both Josiah and Stephen originally came from
Canterbury, although both left there as their families grew. Equally, it is more than likely that this
William Gowland is nothing to do with our line.
2nd
February 2010
Details
of Baltic Medal awarded to John Thomas Ewing Gowlland in 1854 added to his
biography – click here. Details of 1789 apprenticeship of Stephen
Gowlland to John Quested added to his biography – click here.
21st
January 2010
Latest
version of Gowlland Family Tree published – click here.
It now runs to eighteen closely-printed A4 pages, and the complete Tree
totals 927 individuals. If anyone would
like a copy of the fil as a GEDCOM, please email accordingly to john gowlland (gowlland@aol.com).
16th
January 2010
Photos
of two oil paintings signed by Stephen Leversha Gowlland appended to his
correspondence with Geoff Gowlland – click here.
15th
January 2010
Note
included in biography of Josiah Gowlland re Canterbury freehold of Lazarus
Thornton – click here.
7th
January 2010
A
possible third candidate identified for the convicted Richard Gowlland in 1870
– click here. Comment added regarding the 1827 baptism of
Charles Gowlland, son of Josiah, with address shown as “The Workhouse, Hendon”
– click here. Obituary from 1942 for Edward Lake Gowlland
added to his biography – click here.
23rd
November 2009
BMD
Certificates published over past ten days added to the respective indices.
18th
November 2009
Marriage
certificates published for Joseph Honey Gowlland (1907 – here)
and Selina Gowlland (1848 – here).
16th
November 2009
Baptism
certificate of 13th April 1873 published for Eleanor Gowlland (here); and for Edith Emma
and Francis Edward Gowlland (here)
dated 24th February 1884, from St Mark, Tollington Park, Islington.
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.
14th
November 2009
Burial
record published for Leonard Lake Gowlland and Richard Sankey Gowlland – here. Burial record from Saint Pancras Old Church,
Camden, London, of Emma Gowland [sic] aged two days, possibly a hitherto unknown
child of Charles Gowlland (b1861) – here.
13th
November 2009
Marriage
record from 1881 published for Rebecca Gowlland (click here). Also for Susannah Gowlland (click here). Record of Stephen Gowlland’s religious interests in 1775 – here. Record of 1936 burial of Mabel Agnes Blanche
Louise Gowlland – click here.
12th
November 2009
Publishing
of a record from The Old Bailey of the conviction in 1870 of a Richard Gowlland
for “attempted theft from dwelling house” – click here and here
1st
November 2009
Baptism
certificate for Eliza Jane Gowlland, daughter of Richard “coachpainter”
Gowlland, published – click here.
30th
October 2009
1882
baptism certificate for George Gowlland (1867 – 1927) added to his biography (here). 1881 census entry for Peter Yeames Gowlland added to his
biography (here), and
three baptism certificates added, 1825 (himself), 1861 (his daughter) and 1863
(his son) – click here..
28th
October 2009
Section
dealing with media interest in Geoff Gowlland’s cine films rewritten – click here.
Baptism records published for Peter Yeames Gowlland (here),
Louisa Mary Yeames Gowlland (here)
and Elizabeth Lyon Gowlland (here).
25th
October 2009
Puzzling
presence of James West Gowlland at the 1832 wedding of so-far unplaced Jane
Gowlland discussed – click here. And publishing of record of calling of
banns of the mysterious Richard Symonds Gowlland in 1847 – here.
24th
October 2009
Birth
certificate and baptism certificate published for Richard Gowlland born 1877 –
click here.
23rd
October 2009
1836
marriage record found for Ann Gowlland’s marriage to William Fisher, as
previously included in “Loose Ends” – click here.
20th
October 2009
Baptism
certificate from St Mary’s, Hendon, Barnet, Middlesex, dated 1823, published
for six children of Josiah and Peggy/Margaret Gowlland -
click here.
14th
October 2009
Baptism
record from St Mary’s, Hendon, Barnet, published for Charles Gowlland, the last
child of Josiah and Peggy/Margaret –
click here. Why was the family of a schoolmaster in the
Workhouse?
Original
record of marriage of Richard Symonds Gowlland and Louisa Newell from St
Matthew’s, Bethnal Greem published, showing the clerk had trouble with the
spelling of the word “Mathematical” – click here.
13th
October 2009
Certificate
obtained (click here)
for the 1832 marriage of Jane Gowlland and Samuel Cox; but the mystery remains
as to who Jane is - she therefore remains in Loose Ends (click here).
12th
October 2009
Baptism
certificate from St Mary Magdalene, Greenwich, published for twin girls
allegedly fathered in 1864 by John Thomas Ewing Gowlland – click here.
7th
October 2009
Map
showing location of Eyethorne Baptist Chapel added to biography of Stephen
Gowlland (1747 – 1802) – click here.
2nd
October 2009
Further
information concerning Stephen Gowland’s link to the Particular Baptists added
to his biography – click here.
25th
September 2009
Publication
of a few records extracted from archives at the Society of Genealogists, namely
Parish Indexes [here] and Parish
Chests [here].
21st
September 2009
Birth
records searched for Eythorne Particular Baptists chapel showing a total of
nine new grandchildren born to Susannah and Sarah, daughters of Stephen Gowlland (b 1747) – click here and here.
17th
September 2009
Some
notes on John Sutton, his apprentice-master, added to biography of Joseph
Gowlland – click here.
15th
September 2009
Notes
on an apparent branch in Paris in 1922 added to information on Gowllands
Limited – click here.
10th
September 2009
Updated
Family Tree published as PDF file – click here.
2nd
September 2009
Plan
of Newcastle, Queensland, Australia, from 1866, the work of John Thomas Ewing
Gowlland, added to his biography – click here.
13th
August 2009
Details
of the long-lost portrait of Peter Yeames Gowlland added to the correspondence between
Geoff Gowlland and A Yakovleff – click here.
7th
August 2009
Updated
Family Tree published as PDF file – click here.
30th
July 2009
Maple
and Go(u)lder entries in the list of participants in the 1641 Protestation
added to the Glossary – click here – and
additional Maple details added to the biography of Joseph Gowlland (b c1714) –
click here.
24th
July 2009
A list of Maple baptisms for the 16th - 18th centuries, most of them in
Bridge (a village a short distance from Canterbury, on the road to Dover), has
been added to the Glossary and to Joseph Gowlland’s biography - click here.
21st
July 2009
More
details added regarding antecedents of Peggy Thornton, wife of Josiah Gowlland
– click here.
17th
April 2009
Some
notes added on Goulder and Golder
- here.
11th
July 2009
More
information on Baptists added – click here.
1st
July 2009
Further
information, resulting from a visit to East Kent Archives in Dover, added
regarding Gowlland Baptist connections, in particular extracts from the
Register Book for Dover Baptist Church of St Mary – here.
25th
June 2009
Information
regarding Baptist links to Gowl(l)ands, and general Baptist information,
published – click here. This is also available through the Glossary
– click here
23rd
June 2009
More
information published regarding James Fenn – click here.
22nd
June 2009
Joseph
Theophilus Gowland added to “Loose Ends” – click here.
12th
June 2009
Additional
information regarding HMS “Plumper” and HMS “Hecate” added to biography of John
Thomas Ewing Gowlland – click here.
8th
June 2009
Report
on Jack Gowlland’s return after a two-month surveying voyage on HMS “Edith”
found in “The Brisbane Courier” for 16th December 1868 -
the link is http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/1314987
Mention
in “Nature” - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v119/n2993/abs/119389a0.html
- of an experiment in the 1920s carried out by “Mr G Gowlland” (thought to be
George Gowlland 1867 – 1927) in collaboration with a Mr L G Vedy, on the
rotation of bodies with dielectric surfaces in electrostatic fields. If indeed he had shown this experiment at
The Physical Society (presumably the American one) it must have been within a
few months of his death.
2nd
June 2009
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.