Records and Documents

 

 

William Dowie - Marriage - 1774

Married Catherine Craigie at Perth, Scotland.

 

Hercules Dowie - Baptism - 1780

Baptised at Newburgh Parish Church.

 

Robert Dowie - Will - 1799

Shipmaster of Liverpool, born in Newburgh, son of George Dowie and Jean Beatt.

 

Robert Dowie signature 1799

 

Hercules Dowie  - 1st Marriage - 1801

Married Alice Layland at Upholland, Lancashire.

 

Hercules Dowie - 2nd Marriage - 1814

Married Ann Rigby at Wigan, Lancashire

 

Hercules Dowie - Removal Order - 1826

Being poor and having become chargeable to the Township of Ince, the Overseers of the Poor tried (unsuccessfully) to remove Hercules Dowie and family from their township, to Liverpool.

Hercules Dowie - Census - 1841

This is the only census record of Hercules Dowie - he died the week before the 1851 census was taken.

 

Hercules Dowie - Burial - 1851

Buried at All Saints, Wigan.

 

Photograph - 1800's

This photograph has been passed down to Joan Riggs of Albaquerque, USA from her father Frank Shuttleworth.  Is it Hercules?

 

Other Records Requiring Transcription

  • Ince Overseers of Poor Accounts 1800 - 1850 

 

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