James Hugh McGowan

  Noted events in his life were:

• connection. Val Beck convoluted connection to Robert is as follows:
Val Beck . . . Her G G Grandmother was Mary Ann McGowan (c1860)
Her father was James McGowan (c1830) & he also had Agnes McGowan (1859) who married George Singleton (1856)
His father was Benjamin Singleton (1817) who married Eliza Horne (1825)
Her father was Samuel Horne (1798) & he had Caroline Horne (1827) who married Patrick Cullen (1822).
Patrick Cullen also married Catherine Carroll (1857)
Her father was Patrick Carroll (ca825) & he also had William Carroll (1849)
He had Johanna Carroll (1876) who married Edward Armstrong (1876)
They had Edward Armstrong (1906)
He had Warren Armstrong (1947) who married Carol Griffiths (1953)
Her father was Raymond Griffith (1926)
His father was Frank Griffith (1890) who married Bertha Craddock (1894)
Her father was George Craddock & her mother was Bertha Barker (1865)
Her father was Robert Barker (1827c) & he also had Annie Barker (1853) who married John Pearson (1850)
His father was James Pearson (1813) & he also had Mary Pearson (1843) who married Richard Dawes (1845)
His father was Edward Bannister Dawes (1813) & he also had James Dawes (1843)
He had Annie Florence Dawes (1873) who married Arthur Augustus Bray (1869)
They had Albert Alan Bray (1896)
He had Robert Alfred Bray (1920)
He had Robert Arthur Bray (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

• source. Val Beck who notes that he was a convict and sent from Ireland when he was 17 years old

James married Helen (Ellen) Goodyear on 16 Sep 1850 in Singleton, NSW Australia. (Helen (Ellen) Goodyear was born on 18 Nov 1827 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland UK, died on 14 Apr 1903 in Conrad St, Howell, near Inverell, NSW Australia and was buried in Inverell, NSW Australia.)