B50815-Smith,-alias-O'Gowan

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Name of the family:

Smith, alias O'Gowan

Blason:

Ar. two naked arms in fess, one issuant from dexter fess point, the other from the sinister, grasping a torch erect and Inflamed, issuant from the dexter base a similar arm grasping a sword in pale all ppr.

Crest(s):

A naked arm couped lying fessways grasping in the hand a sword erect all ppr.

Motto:

Tene-bras expelllt et hostes. There is a family tradition that the Chief of theO'GowANS commanded at a battle which was fought at night by the light of torches.

Info about the family:

Ballygowan, co. Down, and Lisnegar, and Couha, co. Cavan. in the genealogy of James Smith, alias O'Gowan, Esq., of Cadiz, in Spain, it Is certified by Hawkins, Ulster, 1779, that the said James Smith was descended from Hugh O'Gowan, of Ballygowan, and it appears that the name of O'Gowan (Gabhan, a Blacksmith") was anglicised after the Battle of the Boyne, in which Capt. James O'Gowan was killed on the side of James II., and his son, Philip Smith, alias O'Gowan, outlawed

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