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Eric M Johnstone has given us information that 'Pioneer' William's father was 
named Patrick McDowell and his mother was Margaret Gabbie. Thank you Eric.
As Avery Mcdowell wrote Pioneer William Mcdowell was born in  SCOTLAND 1770.
I have found Patrick McDowall born 1742 Stanraer Wigtown Scotland married 
Margaret Gabbie born abt 1746 Wigtown Scotland with children John McDowall 1768,
Our William 1770.Agnes 1772, Jean 1774, and Patrick 1775. As Avery mentioned Patrick 
senior brought his family to Co. Cavan abt.1780.


Alice Paige has directed me to her Co. Cavan McDowell's in Dundalk (formerly known 
as McDowell's Corners. John McDowell b. 1829 settled and strarted up his saw and 
grist mill 1849. See 'Pioneer' John Mcdowell.

One can't mention Shawville Settlers without mentioning the Hodgins' and the 
Dale's. Ron Dale has some great information coming soon. Great work on your 
part! P.S. I did find that Robert McDowell was born in Tyrone and the children 
were born in Co. Fermanagh and Co. Cavan. 

There is a notion that Pioneer William McDowell's family fled Scotland 
because they were Covenantors. 

They were Presbyterian Covenanters and fled Scotland during the reign of Charles II 
of England and settled in West Ulster. In 1689, Mary Elizabeth McDowell, 
daughter of Ephraim McDowell , married James Greenlee.
Ephraim McDowell fought in the siege of Derry against James II.
 From  Kerby A. Miller Immigrants In This  Land of Canaan



A number of prominent ministers in the Synod of Ulster in the late eighteenth 
century, such as Benjamin McDowell, minister of Ballykelly and later Marys Abbey in 
Dublin, and Sinclare Kelburn, minister of the Third congregation in Belfast and a 
prominent political radical, shared a similar approach and may legitimately be 
described as enlightenment evangelicals. As with the Popular Party, evangelicalism 
for these men was not contained in a conversion experience but with the exaltation 
of scriptural doctrines and right perceptions of the atonement and of mans 
consequent relationship with God.* McDowell upheld subscription in print and Old 
Lights collectively took decisive action only in exceptional circumstances, as with 
the largely amicable formation of the prescribing Presbytery of Belfast in 1772.** 
Significantly, McDowell and Kelburn, along with Robert Rogers and William Wilson, 
were appointed by the Synod of Ulster in 1788 and 1789 to visit the scattered 
Presbyterian congregations in the south and west of Ireland to determine their 
condition, an indication of a concern with planting new churches beyond their 
traditional heartland. ***

*    Ibid., 236
**  Withrow, ?Memorials?
*** RGSU (1788) Records of the General Synod of Ulster 1691-1820
One Samuel McDowell from Dromore was converted and bacame a missionary and was sent 
to Newfoundland 1808 and went on west into Canada abt. 1813. 



Anna Turcott has provided pictures of Elizabeth (McDowell) Black and George 
Black's family line. This is a great piece of information. Thanks Anna! 

BANKS; Rog and Sue Frost in the U.K. have been able to match up with the early 
Banks, Frost, Stevens, Peirce, Coley and back to Gadsby too,in Sussex, and 
we'll be seeing them shortly with pictures of Uckfield as well. Thanks Rog!

Wilcox; My Wilcox name goes back as far as Bethnal Green, Middlesex, Hackney, Bexley 
Heath Kent and Essex and a clue that John Wilcox was from Somerset.
 
The Oconto maps link below, shows the lands which McDowell families and others 
from the Pontiac settled. see Page 44 29N Range21E sections 13 14 24 25. Other 
may be found if you look carefully at all of them.

Please click on my guestbook and say hello. There are some pictures 
coming with thanks going out to Rhonda Twine of our McDowell lines and some 
fantastic pictures of William Cline McDowells'folks. Bryan McDowell is coming 
on site with some pictures of his line from Manitoba 
and now Saskatchewan.

Saskatchewan; The Dr. Stirling McDowell Foundation in this province was named 
after one of ours. His family is still in that province.

Don't miss 'Ulster Kith or Kin' from Leo McDowell. A must read,

and EVER TRUE;a book by Lisa Saunders, an Author and relative of Charles 
McDowell b. Simcoe Ontario and fought in the American Civil War.  see
the quick links below.

 " I have gathered many names of the children of the founding fathers and 
their children's children. That was what the late Dr. Earl Dagg was doing when 
he visited me. Dr. Earl had visited a Robin McDowell of Mullaharlin,Co. Louth, 
Republic of Ireland. King James II had given an estate to the ancestors of 
Robin. Robin said that his cousin Harry McDowell is a member of the Royal 
Genealogical Society. Their McDowell's had lived in Irland originally and had 
gone to the west coast of Scotland in 1300 A.D. The reason was so they could 
celebrate Easter in thier own way at that time. His family returned to Ireland 
about 1650."  Avery McDowell  Revised 1992. These were the Preaching Mcdowell's.



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