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<center> <a href="http://www.commission-junction.com/track/track.dll?AID=1027770&PID=709342&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efamilytreemaker%2Ecom%2Faffiliate%2Findex%2Ehtml" target="_blank"> </a> </center> <h1><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+2>The Dowies in Kinross </font></font></b><font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="-1">(<a href="#FamilyOrigins">and their English Dowie ancestors</a>)</font></h1> <b>Heatheryford</b>, just outside <a href="http://www.tulbol.demon.co.uk/history.htm">Kinross</a>, now a <a href="http://www.demon.co.uk/cerescc/Heatheryford.html">B&B Inn</a> (a.k.a. the Grouse and Claret restaurant), was, for many generations, the home of one branch of the Dowie family in Kinross.  <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5 > <tr> <td><img src="gifs/ganc.gif" height=126 width=195 align="left">"James Dowie, wright, of Heatheryford" is mentioned in a list of <a href="Datefile3.htm#Sequestration">sequestrations</a> (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.<br /> The present owners claim that one of Mary Queen of Scots' meetings with John Knox was at Heatheryford. </td> <td><img src="jpgs/Heatheryford.JPG" height=181 width=328></td> </tr> </table> 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).<br /> <br /> <b><font face="Times New Roman,Times"><font size="-1">This from the British Army Museum in London:</font></font></b> <br /> <tt>Bengal (1855) C.P. cxxil. 87.</tt> <ul> <b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Douie, Andrew.</font></font></b> <br /> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Son of Andrew Douie, Factor, Blair Adam</font>*<font size=-1>, & Margaret Livingston (of Easter Balado).</font></font> <br /> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Related to William Patrick Adam, Esq., of Blair Adam, barrister, M.P. Kinross & Clackmannan.</font></font> <br /> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Recom. by Adm. Sir Charles Adam, KCB, Royal Hospital Greenwich.</font></font> <br /> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Born 6th Jan. 1837; bapt. Kinross 28th Feb. 1837.</font></font> <br /> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Educ. at Scottish N. & M. Acad., Edinburgh; and at Madras Coll., St Andrews.  Addiscombe 1854-5.</font></font> <br /> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Died at the Johnstone, Stirling, 28th Ja. 1871, aged 34.</font></font> <br /> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Captain, Bengal Artillary.   (Stubbs, No. 946)</font></font> </ul> <p>* <font size=-1>Co-incidentally, in our own branch of the Dowie family, May Dowie's son married <a href="Datefile4.htm#JanetAndJohn">Janet Foote</a>, the grand-daughter of  <a href="Datefile2.htm#DavidTweedieAndElizabethAllen">David Tweedie</a> who used to look after Blair Adam House for Robert Adam </font><font size=-1>when the family were away.  The font and the communion table in the Cleish Church (below) were inscribed to the Tweedies.</font></p> <h1> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+2>Cleish Church</font></font></h1> The church at nearby Cleish seems to be almost exclusively dedicated to the memory of the Douies (and the Tweedies)!  There were a few Douie graves in the churchyard.  It <u>has</u> been transcribed.  I'll try to get a copy. <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5 cols=2 width="100%" > <tr> <td align=CENTER valign=TOP><img src="jpgs/DouiWin1.JPG" height=281 width=272>  <br /> <font size=-1>Inscription: To the Glory of God and the memory of Jessie Hamilton Douie who died 16th March 1928, widow of the late John Livingstone Douie.</font></td> <td align=CENTER valign=TOP><img src="jpgs/DouiWin2.JPG" height=283 width=277>  <br />  <font size=-1>Inscription: illegible on the snapshot but it was another Dowie window - outstanding, tasteful  work .</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=CENTER valign=TOP><img src="jpgs/DouiBrass.JPG" height=277 width=277>  <br /> <font size=-1>Inscription: "In remembrance of Captain Andrew Douie, Royal Horse Artillary, who died at the Johnstone near Stirling on the 28 Jan 1871 aged 34 years.  </font>  <br /> <font size=-1>This tablet is a last tribute of affectionate regard from his brother officers."</font></td> <td align=CENTER valign=TOP><img src="jpgs/DouiMarbl.JPG" height=277 width=272>  <br /> <font size=-1>Sacred to the memory of Robert Douie, ensign in the 26th regiment Madras Native Infantry, who died at sea on the 19th day of March A.D. 1850, aged 20.</font>  <br /> <font size=-1>His mortal remains were commited to the deep.  This tablet is erected by his brother officers as a token of their esteem and regard.</font></td> </tr> </table> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4 width="100%" > <tr> <td valign="top" height="108"> <p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1><a name="FamilyOrigins"></a>      <br /> </font></font><font size=+1>Origins of the Dowie family</font></font></p> <p> <font size=-1>It's generally accepted that the Dowies are a sept of the Cameron Clan but the only basis for this seems to be a decision made by a geneologist/author who connected the Dowies with the MacIldowies on the strength of the similarity of the two names. I would like to see something a bit more concrete before getting fitted out for a kilt to attend the next Cameron Clan gathering.</font></p> <p><font size="-1">Have a look at the table below (and the <a href="#DeDouai">text</a> which follows it). The Scottish Dowies outnumber the English in the <a href="#OPRs">old records</a> by about 10 to 1 but the <i>earliest</i> records are English. I think the Dowies will eventually prove to be a Norman family.</font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <br /> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><a name="EarlyDowies"></a>This is a combination of data from the Scottish Old Parish Registers and the English IGI. </b></font> <table cellspacing=1 cellpadding=2 width=747> <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC" bordercolor="#666666"> <th width="15%" valign="TOP" height=18> <p align="CENTER"><font size="2"><b><font face="Arial">FirstName</font></b></font> </th> <th width="11%" valign="TOP" height=18> <b><font face="Arial" size=2> <p align="CENTER"><font size="2">Surname</font> </font></b></th> <th width="11%" valign="TOP" height=18> <b><font face="Arial" size=2> <p align="CENTER"><font size="2">Event</font> </font></b></th> <th width="16%" valign="TOP" height=18> <b><font face="Arial" size=2> <p align="CENTER"><font size="2">Date</font> </font></b></th> <th width="47%" valign="TOP" height=18> <b><font face="Arial" size=2> <p align="CENTER"><font size="2">Place</font> </font></b></th> </tr> <tr> <td width="15%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p><font size="2" color="#0000CC">Mrs. Emma</font> </font></td> <td width="11%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p><font size="2" color="#0000CC">DOUAI</font> </font></td> <td width="11%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p><font size="2" color="#0000CC">Marriage</font> </font></td> <td width="16%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p align="CENTER"><font size="2" color="#0000CC">1074</font> </font></td> <td width="47%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p><font size="2" color="#0000CC">Bampton, Essex</font> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="15%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p><font size="2" color="#0000CC">Walscin</font> </font></td> <td width="11%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p><font size="2" color="#0000CC">DOUAI</font> </font></td> <td width="11%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p><font size="2" color="#0000CC">Marriage</font> </font></td> <td width="16%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p align="CENTER"><font size="2" color="#0000CC">1074</font> </font></td> <td width="47%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p><font size="2" color="#0000CC">Bampton, Essex</font> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="15%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p><font size="2" color="#0000CC">Ellyn</font> </font></td> <td width="11%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p><font size="2" color="#0000CC">DOWIE</font> </font></td> <td width="11%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p><font size="2" 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height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p><font size="2" color="#0000CC">William</font> </font></td> <td width="11%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p><font size="2" color="#0000CC">DOUIE</font> </font></td> <td width="11%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p><font size="2" color="#0000CC">Marriage</font> </font></td> <td width="16%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p align="CENTER"><font size="2" color="#0000CC">20/11/1599</font> </font></td> <td width="47%" valign="TOP" bgcolor="#ffffff" height=18> <font face="Arial" size=2> <p><font size="2" color="#0000CC">Padstow, Cornwall</font> </font></td> </tr> </table> <p><b><a name="DeDouai"></a>Misc. references on the web: </b></p> <p>"Also holding manors in Somerset was Walter de Douai, son of Urso of Douai near Lille in Normandy. He was also at the Battle of Hastings. He held 37 manors. Walter also held extensive lands in Devonshire and a great barony. From him were descended the Barons Bampton of Devonshire. He may have had two other brothers at Hastings, Fouque and Goselin."</p> <p>"Walter de Douai - his Somerset holdings:<br /> Allerton, Alstone, Alston Sutton, Ansford, Badgworth, Bathealton, Bawdrip, Bradney, Bratton Seymour, Brean, Bridgewater, Burnham on Sea, Castle Cary, Chilcompnton, Crook, Dunwear, Horsey, Huntspill, Pawlett, Sparkford, Strecholt, Tarnock,Walpole, Watchet, Weare, Wembdon, Wincanton, Worle."</p> <p>"Walter de Douai, was from Douai, near Lille, in Normandy. Son of Urso de Douai, Walter was at Hastings but his brother Hugh does not appear in the rolls and probably remained at the chief domain in Normandy. Walter received large baronies in Devonshire and Somerset. His chief domain was at Bampton, and from him descended the Barons of Bampton."</p> <p><a name="OPRs"></a>"<a href="http://pages.infinit.net/joss/sitepaynel/paynel_10.html">http://pages.infinit.net/joss/sitepaynel/paynel_10.html</a><br /> Branche de Bampton III . Guillaume I Paynel , sgr de Bampton et Devon, para�t �tre le fils de Foulques, sgr de Dudley. Il a �pous� Juliana, fille de Robert de Bampton, ce dernier fils de Gautier de Douai et Emma."</p> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=6 width="100%" > <tr> <td valign="top"> <p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>Our branch of the Dowie family</font></font> </p> <p><img src="jpgs/hoose.jpg" height=197 width=292><a name="hoose"></a><br /> <br /> A few of Thomas Dowie's descendants settled here 20 years ago! We're about 15 miles outside of Glasgow and about ten minutes from a village called <b>Bardowie</b>.  The "Dowie" part <u>in this case</u> :-) is probably from the Gaelic for black.</p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><img src="jpgs/tree.JPG" height=521 width=468></p> </td> </tr> </table>   <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 cols=2 width="100%" > <tr> <td><b><i><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Family Datefile <img src="gifs/link1.gif" height=17 width=100></font></font></i></b>  <br /> <b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#999999"><font size=-1><a href="Datefile1.htm">Part 1 (1066 to 1649)</a></font></font></font></b>  <br /> <b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#999999"><font size=-1><a href="Datefile2.htm">Part 2 (1650 to 1799)</a></font></font></font></b>  <br /> <b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#999999"><font size=-1><a href="Datefile3.htm">Part 3 (1800 to 1849)</a></font></font></font></b>  <br /> <b><font 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