This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hBU.2ACEB/332.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks, Elizabeth, for your reply. I have practically no info on McGowans. The extent of my info is that one of my Durkins married a McGowan, probably in Pennsylvania, perhaps Illinois, just before 1900. I don't have any other information about his origins at all. Sorry not to be able to help.