Records of Peter Gowans on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Peter Gowans in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Peter Gowans and the Gowans Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Gowans Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Gowans family tree.

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Gowans Family History Databases

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Gowans Forums

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Miscellaneous Gowans Databases

Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Peter Gowans. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Peter Gowans

Peter Gowans

Peter Taylor Gowans (25 May 1944 – 17 November 2009) was a Scottish football Winger who played more than 400 English Football League games for three English clubs.

He started his career with junior team Dundee Shamrock, moving to Celtic for the 1960/61 season. However, Gowans did not play a senior first team game for the Scottish giants, and he moved to Crewe Alexandra in 1963.

Nineteen-year-old Gowans was signed by Crewe manager Jimmy McGuigan. He went on to spend 3 seasons with the Railwaymen, scoring 47 league goals for them.

Gowans moved to Aldershot in 1966/67 and made over 100 League appearances for The Shots. In 1970, he moved back north with Rochdale, and Gowans made a total of 155 senior league and cup appearances for them, scoring 22 goals. Gowans played over 400 games in the English Football League spanning a 10-year career.

After his playing career he managed Nantwich Town whilst working for British Rail as a Clerical Officer in the Main Locomotive Erecting Shop at Crewe Locomotive Works.

Source: Peter Gowans, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Gowans

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