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Titbits 1.
Thomas McAllester Dowie in Dalquhalliche and John McJohn Dowie in
Boespick were both fined for reset of Clan Gregor in 1613. 2.
Seven Dowie's are recorded living in the Dunblane district around 1671. 3.
Andrew Dowie is recorded as an inndweller of Anstruther in 1697. 4.
In America in 1896 John Alexander Dowie (b.25th May 1847- d. 9th March
1907) founded The Christian Catholic Church of Scotland. In 1901 he founded City
of Zion on Shores of Lake Michigan, 40 miles N of Chicago . In June 1901, Dowie
took the fateful step of publicly announcing that he was indeed Elijah the
Restorer. (A claim which was immediately challenged and denounced by most
religious leaders). 5.
Joe Dowie 1865 - 1917 was an American Baseballer who played for Baltimore
Orioles. 6.
At Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake there is a hole named "The Dowie
Hole" after J Muir Dowie the first captain. 7.
An Andrew Dowie is reported to have been Scottish American Golf Champion in the
1950's. 8.
The Corries (folk singers) recorded a traditional ballad "The Dowie dens of
Yarrow". Yarrow is a village west of Selkirk. 9. Bardowie is a place just north of Glasgow, and Daldowie a cemetery just south of Glasgow. 10. Current notable Dowies include:
Freda Dowie
-
UK Actress - Our Friends in the North Iain Dowie
- UK Footballer
- West Ham FC & N Ireland John Dowie
- UK Performing artist John
Dowie
- Australian Sculptor Mark
Dowie
- USA Author American
Environmentalism Penny
Dowie
- Australian Painter
11.
Johnnie Dowie ran an ale house in Libberton's Wynd, Edinburgh around 1786
where Robert Burns and Adam Smith enjoyed Younger's Edinburgh Ale. O,
Dowie's Ale O,
Dowie's ale! thou art the thing That
gars us crack, and gars us sing, Cast
by our cares, our wants a'fling Frae
us wi' anger; Thou
e'en mak'st passion tak' the wing, Or
thou wilt bang 'er. Hunter
of Blackness, circa 1786 Dowie's
Tavern A tavern in Libberton's Wynd, Edinburgh, kept by Johnnie Dowie. It was a favourite haunt of Burns, Masterton, Nicol and their friends. In a small room known, because of its sign, as 'The Coffin', Burns is supposed to have written some of his songs, among them 'O Poortith Cauld'. Dowie's customers were mostly lawyers and writers who liked good food, and his tavern had a reputation for respectability. He refused to open a bottle after midnight. When he died in 1817, he left his fortune to his son, a Major in the Army. Dowie's Tavern was demolished in 1834. 12.
Halbert's Family Heritage (1994) lists 836 families with the name Dowie, and
estimates that there are less than 1000 Dowie families world wide. This gives an
estimated total population of less than 3000. The largest concentration exists
in Fife, significant numbers occur outside the UK only in USA, New Zealand and
Canada. 13. The Hanging of George Dowey was almost the last execution in Canada 14.
Early Emmigrants to North America; Index
to Records of Aliens' Declaration of Intent. Pennsylvania Historical
Commission, 1940
vol.3 pg.
188:-
Lists - William Dowie arrived
Philadelphia, PA in 1839 List
of Emigrant Ministers to America, 1690-1811, Fothergill & Gerald.
Baltimore; Geneological Pub.
Co.
1965 pg. 25:- Lists - William Dowie arrived in Maryland in 1762 15. The Kinross Dowie's ( with thanks to Jimmy Campbell)
i) James Dowie, wright,
of Heatheryford" is mentioned in a list of
sequestrations (1843). We don't know, yet, whether or not he lost the house
at that time but it seems that the house had not previously changed hands in
about 200 years. ii) The 1851 census of the area is generally signed by "Andrew Dowie,
enumerator." Andrew Dowie was factor to William Patrick Adam, the barrister and
MP (and descendant of Robert Adam, the architect, whose home was at Blair Adam
House in Kinross). Douie, Andrew. |