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John Rowan (high Sheriff)
John Rowan (1778–1855) was an officer in the Irish militia and High Sheriff of County Antrim.Bernard Burke and Arthur Charles Fox-Davies''A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland''(London: Harrison & Sons, 1912), page 609 Life The eldest of ten sons of Robert Rowan, an impoverished landowner of Scottish descent, his brothers included the regular army officers Captain Robert Rowan, 52nd Foot, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Rowan, Field Marshal Sir William Rowan and Major James Rowan (with James also serving as Chief Police Magistrate for the Town and Territory of Gibraltar in 1830). A tablet at the Church of Ireland church in Ahoghill Ahoghill ( or ; ) is a large village and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, four miles from Ballymena. It is located in the Mid and East Antrim Borough Council area. It had a population of 3,417 people at the 2011 Census. In early ... was set up by his tenantry the year after his death. References {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Antrim County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, ) is one of six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and has a population of about 618,000. County Antrim has a population density of 203 people per square kilometre or 526 people per square mi |
