Census for William and Ann Sutherland Gow Household

	UK 1871	UK 1881	UK 1891	UK 1901	US 1910	US 1920
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Index Name	Gaw	Gow	Gow	Tow	Gow	Gow
Address	63 Fountainbridge (west), Edinburgh St Cuthberts, Midlothian, Scotland	Poulton With Seacomb, Wallasey, Cheshire, England	Tabor Street, Poulton With Seacomb, Wallasey, Cheshire, England	Poulton cum Seacomb, Wallasey, Cheshire, England	448 West 35th Street, New York, New York	177 East 74th Street, New York, New York
Husband	William, 31, married, journeyman cooper, born in Latherton, Caithness, Scotland	William, 39, married, cooper, born in Scotland	William, 49, married, cooper, born in Scotland	William, 58, married, cooper, born in Scotland
Wife	Anna, 28, born in Helmsdale, Sutherlandshire	Annie, 38, born in Scotland	Annie, 48, born in Scotland	Ann, 58, born in Scotland	Anne, 65, widow, 9 of 16 children living, immigrated in 1902, born in Scotland	Annie, 77 widow, immigrated in 1903, born in Scotland
Son	Donald, 7, born in Wick, Cuthnessshire		Donald "Dan" and Roseanne Murray Gow
Daughter	Jessie Ann, 4, born in Wick, Cuthnessshire
Son	James, 3, born in Edinburgh, Edinburghshire	James, 13, scholar, born in Scotland
Daughter		Catherine, 9, born in Scotland
Son		John, 7, born in Seacombe, Cheshire, England	John, 17, fireman, born in Wallasey, Cheshire, England
Son		William, 5, born in Seacombe, Cheshire, England	William, 15, scholar, born in Cheshire, England
Daughter		Elizabeth, 4, born in Seacombe, Cheshire, England	Elizabeth, 14, bakers errand boy, born in Wallasey, Cheshire, England
Son		Joseph, 1, born in Seacombe, Cheshire, England	Joseph, 13, born in Wallasey, Cheshire, England
Daughter			Margaret, 9, born in Wallasey, Cheshire, England
Daughter			Christine, 7, scholar, born in Wallasey, Cheshire, England
Son			George, 6, scholar, born in Wallasey, Cheshire, England		George, 25, machinist in piano factory, immigrated in 1902, born in England

From the Gow Family Book:

	Alexander Georgeson was born in 1750. He married Elizabeth Gow in 1776.
William Gow, a crofter, married Catherine Forbes in 1779 in Latherton, Caithness, in the Scottish Highlands.	John Georgeson, 1779-1853, married Christina Wares, 1780-1864. They had 10 children, the oldest being Elizabeth. John and Christina are buried in Mid Clyth cemetery in Caithness.
Donald Gow was born in 1809 in Scotland. He married Elizabeth Georgeson, who was born in 1810 in Latherton, Caithness, Scotland. They had three children: Dollina in 1841, William in 1842 at Lybster, Caithness, and John in 1844. Donald was a cooper. He died in 1859 at Willowbrook, Wick, Scotland. Elizabeth died in 1896 at Willowbrook		James Sutherland was born in Loth, Sutherland, in the Scottish Highlands, southwest of Caithness. He was a sea captain. He married Margaret Murray. Their daughter Ann was born in 1842 at Helmsdale, Sutherland.
William Gow married Ann Sutherland in 1863 in Pulteneytown, Wick, Caithness, Scotland. William was a cooper, like his father. William and Ann had 16 children, eight of whom survived to have families. The family started in Wick, then moved to Edinburgh, Scotland from 1867 to 1872, and on to Seacombe, England, which is across the Mersey River opposite Liverpool. William and Ann had 16 children: Donald, Margaret Sutherland, Jessie Ann, James Sutherland, William Sutherland, Elizabeth Georgeson, David Joseph, Jospeh (?), Margaret Ann, Christina, and George. Eight survived to have families.
Their son Donald Gow was born in 1864 on Francis Street, Pulteneytown, Wick, Scotland. Donald "Dan" Gow marrried Roseanne "Rose" Murray in England on May 7, 1882. They lived in Wallasey, Chester, England. Wallasey is situated at the northeast of the Wirral Peninsula, on the western side of the River Mersey and adjoining the Irish Sea. In the 1891 census, they were living north of Liverpool less than a mile from the docks on the east side of the River Mersey. In 1895, they moved to New York, where they lived in Manhattan, the Bronx, and ultimately Flushing, Queens. Dan worked for the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. in the power plant for over 40 years. He died December 5, 1933 in Queens. Dan and Rose had five children: William George, born in 1886 Ann Sutherland, born in Seacombe, England on January 13, 1888 Loretta (Laurette), Mary Catherine (Mae), born in Wallasey, Chester on April 20 1895, a few weeks before the family emigrated to New York. She married Charles Byrne in Queens, New York, and they had five children, including William X. Byrne. Helen Louise.

From various sources:

William Gow married Ann Sutherland in 1863 in Pulteneytown, Wick, Caithness, Scotland. They had 16 children, eight of whom survived to have families. The family started in Wick, then moved to Edinburgh, Scotland from 1867 to 1872, and on to Seacombe, Cheshire, England, which is on the Mersey River opposite the Liverpool docks.

William's parents were Donald and Elizabeth Georgeson Gow. Ann's parents were James and Margaret Murray Sutherland.

William Gow was a cooper, like his father Donald Gow. Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden, staved vessels, held together with wooden or metal hoops and possessing flat ends or heads. Examples of a cooper's work include casks, barrels, buckets, tubs, butter churns, vats, hogsheads, firkins, tierces, rundlets, puncheons, pipes, tuns, butts, troughs, pins and breakers. In the 1860s there were 1100 herring boats operating out of the Wick harbour and they were supported by no fewer than 650 coopers in the town.

William and Anne S. Gow are buried in St. Michaels Cemetery in East ElmHurst, Queens, New York. William was born April 22, 1842, and died October 23, 1902 (Find A Grave). Anne was born April 22, 1842, and died October 23, 1924 (Find A Grave).

Gow is a Scottish surname. The name is derived from the Gaelic gobha, meaning smith. A variant is McGowan.

Map showing the coast of Sutherland and Caithness on the North Sea in the Scottish Highlands. From lower left to upper right: Helmsdale, Latherton, Lybster, Mid Clyth, and Wick. Loth is near Helmsdale. Pulteneytown is part of Wick.

Hill o' Many Stanes. A south-facing hillside overlooking the North Sea at Mid Clyth, Caithness, in the Scottish Highlands. 200 upright stones, none more than a metre high, believed to be a relic of Bronze Age times. Similar rows of much taller stones are found in Brittany. Photo taken by Ron McKinnon in 1996. Source: Wikipedia.