Jennie, or Jane as she was also known, is one of 7 known children of Master Mariner Matthew & Catherine (née Morgan) Derham of Skerries, Co. Dublin.
In 1898 she married the sailor Vincent McGowan at St. Patrick Catholic Church, Skerries. Jane & Vinny lived on Cross Street, the family's home adjacent to the McGowan family's public house, the Gladstone Inn. It was here they raised their 6 children. At the time of their marriage, Vinny retired from his career on the sea and assumed proprietorship of the Gladstone due to the passing of his father..
A fiercely nationalist family, the business was named in honor of William Gladstone, the indefatigable proponent of Irish Home Rule. It was so named by Capt. Matt McGowan, Jane's father in-law, who originally opened the business. The McGowan's desire for Ireland to be free of the pestilence of a foreign occupier was continued by Jane's daughter Kathleen, an active member of Cumann na mBan and her son Jack who died in battle, fighting for the freedom of all the Irish people.
Jane passed away at the age of 55. Some years later Vinny followed and the Gladstone was sold to a McGowan family cousin, Harry Boylan. It remains in business in it's original location to this day. The family home has remained connected to Jane & Vinny's descendants as the Skerries office of the law firm Gerrard L. McGowan Solicitors.
✞ Jennifer McGowan is buried with her husband Vincent in the McGowan's family plot at Holmpatrick Graveyard. Among the family members buried with them are 4 of their children, John, Maureen, Kathleen & Matthew. It is believed their son Vincent, who died in infancy about 1904, is buried with them also.
Jennie, or Jane as she was also known, is one of 7 known children of Master Mariner Matthew & Catherine (née Morgan) Derham of Skerries, Co. Dublin.
In 1898 she married the sailor Vincent McGowan at St. Patrick Catholic Church, Skerries. Jane & Vinny lived on Cross Street, the family's home adjacent to the McGowan family's public house, the Gladstone Inn. It was here they raised their 6 children. At the time of their marriage, Vinny retired from his career on the sea and assumed proprietorship of the Gladstone due to the passing of his father..
A fiercely nationalist family, the business was named in honor of William Gladstone, the indefatigable proponent of Irish Home Rule. It was so named by Capt. Matt McGowan, Jane's father in-law, who originally opened the business. The McGowan's desire for Ireland to be free of the pestilence of a foreign occupier was continued by Jane's daughter Kathleen, an active member of Cumann na mBan and her son Jack who died in battle, fighting for the freedom of all the Irish people.
Jane passed away at the age of 55. Some years later Vinny followed and the Gladstone was sold to a McGowan family cousin, Harry Boylan. It remains in business in it's original location to this day. The family home has remained connected to Jane & Vinny's descendants as the Skerries office of the law firm Gerrard L. McGowan Solicitors.
✞ Jennifer McGowan is buried with her husband Vincent in the McGowan's family plot at Holmpatrick Graveyard. Among the family members buried with them are 4 of their children, John, Maureen, Kathleen & Matthew. It is believed their son Vincent, who died in infancy about 1904, is buried with them also.
Inscription
This stone
was erected in memory of
MICHAEL and ANNE MCGOWAN
the former died December
27th 1851 aged 49 years
and the latter died August 15th
1853 aged 49 years
Also MARY the beloved
wife of MATTHEW McGOWAN
who departed this life on the 12th day
of August 1879 aged 36 years and her
three children who died young.
The above named
MATHEW McGOWAN
died June 29th 1897 aged 68 years
Also his grand-children
JOHN McGOWAN died 1st July 1922
aged 21 years
MAUREEN McGOWAN died 19th October 1922
aged 15 years
MATTHEW McGOWAN died 15th July 1923
aged 24 years
KATHLEEN McGOWAN died 18th September 1923
aged 19 years
JANE McGOWAN mother of above four children
died on the 19th June 1929 aged 55 years
and her husband
VINCENT McGOWAN
died on the 19th October 1936
aged 64 years.
(NB; the inscription lists an incorrect age for Michael's death in 1851. He was 51)
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