James McDowall

  Birth Notes:

As well as five McKeggan half-siblings, had two full brothers - Andrew (1865), believed to have emigrated to the USA; George (1869-1929), never married

  Death Notes:

Deceased on son's marriage certificate in 1912.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Journeyman blacksmith. ¹

• Baptism, 18 Apr 1864, Liverpool Lancs [St. Peter's]. ¹⁷

• Census, 1881, Birkenhead Wirral Cheshire [11H Block Dock Cottages]. ¹¹

• Occupation: Blacksmith's apprentice, 1881. ¹¹

• Occupation: Marine stoker, 1898. ³

James married Ann Edwards Halewood, daughter of Richard Halewood and Mary Ann Perry, on 17 Jul 1887 in Liverpool Lancs [St. Nicholas].¹¹ (Ann Edwards Halewood was born on 16 May 1863 in Oxton Birkenhead Wirral Cheshire ¹⁷ and died on 16 Jul 1945 in Birkenhead Wirral Cheshire ¹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Residence, 1898, Birkenhead Wirral Cheshire [19 Fox Street]. ¹

  Marriage Notes:

Bride listed as "Ann Edwards Halewood"