(Sir) Edward Temperley GOURLEY of Sunderland, UK
If you go to http://members.cox.net/ghgraham/edwardtemperleygourley1826.htmlhttp://members.cox.net/ghgraham/edwardtemperleygourley1826.html
you will find a great deal of interesting material on this man; Member of Parliament for Sunderland for 32 years and co-founder of the Sunderland Echo for starters.
Why is it, with such a prominent citizen, that I cannot discover his paternal ancestors???? His father was John Young GOURLEY (1801-1867) of St Bede's Terrace Sunderland and he reputedly came from FIFE i9n Scotland. There the trail goes cold as ice!
Clifford Allison