Anthony Canavan
Anthony Canavan, Sr. was a native of Ireland, his birth occurring in County Mayo in 1822. He was one o f a family of eleven children born to Anthony and Catherine Kirby (“Kittie”) Canavan.
Lynch Related Family Trees
John & Roberta Lynch Trees: John & Casey Lynch & The Terpstra, Pleil, Dwyer, Heck, Meyer, Gomez, Sundstrom, Truskey & Williams Families Frank & Susan [...]
John Gibbons Lynch, Sr.
John Gibbons Lynch, Sr. (1922-2009) John Gibbons Lynch Sr., a resident of Cary, IL, and Inverness, FL, died on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 , after [...]
2011 Acknowledgements of Charles Bowe in Julia and Gus, the Memoirs of Julia Bowe
Acknowledgements of Charles Bowe in Julia & Gus, Julia Lecour Bowe’s Memoirs Acknowledgements I am indebted to many people, without whom telling this story [...]
2011 Preface of William John Bowe Jr. to Julia & Gus
Preface I was delighted when Charley Bowe told me that he had run across a typewritten memoir authored by his paternal grandmother, Julia Lecour [...]
The Generations
Editor's Note: In 1959 my aunt Julia Lecour Bowe published The Generations, a scholarly history of her French Pallissard ancestors. She recorded their French [...]
The Families
Editor's Note. In 1970 my mother Mary Gwinn Bowe published 500 copies of The Families, her book of family stories and genealogy. It was [...]
2006 Patricia Lynch Heffron Obituary
Patricia Lynch Heffron (1926-2006)Patricia Lynch Heffron of Sleepy Hollow for 45 years Patricia Lynch Heffron, 80, died in her home Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006, shortly [...]
1949 U.S. Tax Court Opinion
ESTATE OF PARISH v. COMMISSIONERDocket No. 12295.8 T.C.M. 257 (1949)Estate of William W. Parish, Deceased, Varnum A. Parish, as Administrator de bonis non v. Commissioner.United [...]
Parish Family Tree
Anthony Canavan, Sr. and Ann Hughes had 12 children that lived into adulthood. Their daughter Catherine Collette Canavan was born in 1859 in Sumner [...]
John Gibbons Lynch and Roberta Wyman Lynch Trees
Editor's Note: As with most of the other families, a Canavan ancestor looms large for the Lynch Families and their offshoots. [...]
Hart Family Tree
Editor's Note: To understand the Canavan family relationship with the Hart family you need to start with the top tree [...]
Casey & Danielak Family Trees
Editor’s Note: As with most of the other families, a Canavan ancestor looms large for the Casey Families and their [...]
Skura and Grubert Family Trees
William Wallace Parish and Ova Frantz Parish's daughter Catherine Ann Parish married John Joseph Skura. John was born January 10, 1943. [...]
Anthony Canavan & Ann Hughes Trees
Editor's Note: Our progenitor Anthony Canavan, Sr. was born in Ireland in 1822 to his namesake father Anthony Canavan and his mother Catherine (Kitty) [...]
Have Your Heard? Ova Parish is Flying to Meet the Queen!
Yes, You Heard it Right: Ova Parish is Flying to The Netherlands to Meet Queen Beatrix on an All Expenses Trip Paid for by [...]
1984-03-15 The Parish Family and the Momence, Illinois Sesquicentennial (Momence Progress-Reporter Newspaper Article)
Editor's Note: At 19, William Parish, Sr. travelled from Naples, New York by way of the "Strap Railroad," the Erie Canal, a lake steamer [...]
2001-05-27 Anna Victoria Skura Family Index and Parish-Skura Album and Genealogy
2001-05-27 Anna Victoria Skura Family Index and Parish-Skura Album and GenealogyEditor's Note: During high school, Anna Victoria Skura, a Parish family descendant, completed her assignment. [...]
All the Kids of Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes and Then Some
Editor's Note: If the tome of Descendants of Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes were in book form and you weren't careful, [...]
Bill and Gus Bowe, as Remembered by Jim Hart in his Memoirs
8/1/1918 WB JHT 1700 Oakland Street, Des Moines, Iowa -- According to Joe Hart (a retired Canavan relative in Ireland) this is Bill Bowe, [...]
The Families Vol. 2 Website Launches
November 29, 2020 Well over 50 people joined the Zoom launch meeting yesterday for The Families: Vol. 2 website. They came from the West [...]
Cathy Parish Skura Remembers her Parents’ Era in Momence, Illinois
Editor's Note: Cathy Parish Skura may have left Momence to live elsewhere as an adult, but she didn't leave fond memories behind. The Paris [...]
1970 Mary Gwinn Bowe Recalls Her Life Before Chicago in The Families
In the "Before Chicago" part of her remembrances in The Families, Mary Gwinn Bowe recalls the period in her life before her marriage in 1928 to my father, William John Bowe, Sr. After her own mother Mary Agnes Roche died giving birth to her in 1901, she was brought up by her father's mother, Elizabeth Agnes Burns Gwinn. Mary always called her "Mama." Being a widowed by then with modest resources, she made ends meet by managing a rooming house on the Atlantic shore in Deal, New Jersey. Mary goes on to talk about her schooling, the excitement of being on the New Jersey State women's basketball championship team at Asbury Park High School and her fortuitous entrance at the 11th hour to Trinity College in Washington, D.C.
Augustine Joseph Bowe Materials
On February 11, 1961 in City Hall Augustine J. Bowe is congratulated by Mayor Richard J. Daley and Richard Nelson as he is [...]
William John Bowe, Jr. Documents
Photos Through the Decades RIOTS & ROCKETS The Book Curriculum Vitae Featured Documents Foreign Travel Writings & Clippings Photos Through the Decades [...]
Mary Gwinn Bowe Before & After Chicago from the Families (1970)
1809 Dixon Hill Road, Mt. Washington, Baltimore, Maryland Left to Right: Mary, Bessie, Tom, "Mama", Mary Cornelia, Betty, Richard & Elizabeth Gwinn [...]
William John Bowe, Sr. Materials
William John (Patrick) Bowe was born in Chicago at 1024 West Superior Street on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1893. He died December 30, 1965, at the age of seventy-two. I never heard him use or be called by his extra middle name Patrick. His mother was Ellen Frances Canavan. His father was John Joseph Bowe. He was a bright child, rather destructive, had all the infant diseases, loved animals and sports, and was well-liked and very sociable.
Mary Gwinn Bowe Materials
1970 The Families, by Mary Gwinn Bowe 1970 Mary Gwinn Bowe Before & After Chicago, from The Families 1960-09-16 Mary Bowe Hosts Kennedy [...]
Robert Augustus Gwinn (1827-1911)
Robert Augustus Gwinn, a teacher in Conyers, Georgia at the outset of the Civil War, recounts his service in the Confederate Army and his later capture and internment by General Sherman's Union Army troops.
2023 Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes Descendants
Descendants of Anthony Canavan & Ann Hughes Index of Individual Canavan Descendants Index of Canavan Descendant Locations
The Children of Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes
Long story short: they quit after 13.
Anthony Canavan, Jr. (1845-)
No one now alive knows what befell Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes's 3rd child, Anthony, Jr., called Tony.
1987 (1) Anthony Canavan (1822-1890) & Ann Hughes (1818-1899)
John tells the story of their nine-week sailing voyage from Ireland to Baltimore, their immediate relocation to Philadelphia and Ann quickly finding a job during Anthony's serious illness.
1987 (2) Austin Canavan (1821-1913)
Uncle Gus’s own uncle, his near namesake Austin Canavan, had already settled in Momence, Illinois at this point and later encouraged Anthony and Ann to leave Philadelphia and move their growing family near him in Kankakee County in Illinois.
1987 (3) Austin Augustine Canavan (1852-1917)
John Casey remembers that the man he called his “uncle Gus” was born in Philadelphia, the 6th child of Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes.
1987 (4) John Bowe (-1910) and Ellen Canavan (1861-1943)
John Casey has memories as a boy of visiting his mother's sister, Ellen Bowe and her family when they were living on Albany Avenue.
1987 (5) Catherine Canavan Parish (1859-1940) and William Wallace Parish (-1944)
John also remembers the 3rd youngest child of Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes, Catherine Canavan Parish, who married William Wallace Parish of Momence, Illinois
1987 (6) John Canavan (1843-1936)
John Canavan was the 2nd oldest child of Anthony Canavan, Sr. and Ann Hughes.
1987 (7) Mary Canavan McNulty (1847-1933)
The 4th child born to Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes was Mary Canavan.
1987 (8) Son Anthony Canavan, Jr. (1845-)
John Casey recalls that "uncle Tony" went away and no one ever knew what happened to him
Canavan Origins Found: Curraghadooey Townlands, Crossboyne Parish, County Mayo
After several years in Ireland looking into the roots of the Hart and Canavan families, Joe Hart head to the genealogy centers in County Mayo.
2021-02 Anthony Canavan and Catherine Kirby
Anthony Canavan and Catherine Kirby Let’s look at the family tree of the earliest Anthony Canavan we know anything about. The progenitor Anthony [...]
2021-03 Coming to America – John Casey on Anthony Canavan, Sr. and Ann Hughes
Coming to America - John Casey on Anthony Canavan, Sr. and Ann Hughes Editor's Note: In 1987, I sat down with my uncle [...]
2021-04 The 13 Children of Anthony Canavan, Sr. and Ann Hughes
The 13 Children of Anthony Canavan, Sr. and Ann Hughes In this family tree, you see all the 13 children of Anthony Canavan, [...]
2021-05 James Canavan & Julia Kingsley (Mabel Canavan Lecour)
James Canavan & Julia Kingsley (Mabel Canavan Lecour) As the oldest of the 13 children of Anthony Canavan, Sr. and Ann Hughes, James [...]
2021-06 Mabel Canavan & Edward Lecour (Julia Lecour Bowe)
Mabel Canavan Lecour & Edward Lecour (Julia Lecour Bowe) In 1900, Mabel Canavan moved from Michigan back to Kankakee County, where her father [...]
2021-07 The Bowe, Thompson & De Rosa Families
The Bowe, Thompson & De Rosa Families In the center of this slide you see Mabel’s daughter Julia Lecour. Julia married my uncle, [...]
2021-08 John Canavan and Anna Doyle (Anna Delores Canavan)
John Canavan and Anna Doyle (Anna Delores Canavan) To understand the double Canavan connection of the Hart and Duhn families, we turn from [...]
2021-09 Honora Canavan Smokes a Pipe!
Honora Canavan Smokes a Pipe! Honora was some woman. Joe Hart reports that Jimmy Canavan’s father and stepfather both said that Honora Canavan [...]
2021-10 Anna Delores Canavan & James Frances Hart Family
Anna Delores Canavan & James Frances Hart Family Though John Canavan and Anna Doyle Canavan had 11 children, I’m going to focus on [...]
2021-11 A Gun Totin’ Woman & James Francis Hart’s Bravery
A Gun Totin' Woman & James Francis Hart's Bravery Anna Delores Canavan married James Francis Hart in 1913 and they had seven children [...]
2021-12 James Austin Hart & Marie Kelliher Family
James Austin Hart & Marie Kelliher Family The first born to James and Anna Delores Hart was James Austin Hart. He and Marie [...]
2021-13 Peter Hart & Mary Spies (Maureen & Francis Hart)
Peter Hart & Mary Spies (Maureen & Francis Hart) Here you can see another one of the seven children of Anna Delores Canavan [...]
2021-14 Maureen Hart & Jerald Duhn (Tom, Erik, Michael & Stephen)
Maureen Hart & Jerald Duhn (Tom, Erik, Michael & Stephen) Maureen Hart's marriage to Jerald Duhn brings along Thomas, Erik, Michael and Stephen [...]
2021-15 Mary Canavan & Anthony McNulty (Michael & Patrick Kearney McNulty)
Mary Canavan & Anthony McNulty (Michael & Patrick McNulty) Now, let’s take a look at the last of the five double Canavan connections, [...]
2021-16 Patrick Canavan & Elizabeth Larkin (Hanley & Dunn)
Patrick Canavan & Elizabeth Larkin (Hanley & Dunn) Now, here’s the Hanley family tree. Patrick Canavan was the seventh child born to Anthony [...]
2021-17 Bill Bowe Meets Bill Hanley
Bill Bowe Meets Bill Hanley I first met Bill Hanley by complete chance. We both were Loop lawyers who occasionally stopped in for [...]
2021-18 Catherine Collette Canavan & William Wallace Parish II
Catherine Collette Canavan & William Wallace Parish II The Parish family tree shows that Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes’s daughter Catherine Canavan married [...]
2021-20 Margaret Elizabeth Canavan & John Dominic Casey (Lynches & Gwinns)
Margaret Elizabeth Canavan & John Dominic Casey (Lynches & Gwinns) If you follow these light green tags, you can see that the last [...]
21 Francis Joseph Lynch & Susan Alling Family
21 Francis Joseph Lynch & Susan Alling Family The first child born to Patrick and Catherine Casey Lynch was Francis Lynch. On the [...]
22 John Gibbons Lynch & Roberta Wyman Family
22 John Gibbons Lynch & Roberta Wyman Family Frank’s younger brother Jack Lynch also saw service in the military. After the War, Jack [...]
23 Patricia Lynch and Walter Heffron I (Cain, Turner, Romano & Reyes)
23 Patricia Lynch and Walter Heffron I (Cain, Turner, Romano and Reyes) Which brings us to Catherine Casey Lynch’s third child, Patricia Lynch [...]
24 Walter Heffron I, Patriarch
24 Walter Heffron I, Patriarch We salute the Heffron patriarch, Walter Heffron I. At age 98, and with a virus still afoot, he [...]
25 The Gwinn Sisters (Bowe, Casey, Danielak & Riboud)
25 The Gwinn Sisters (Bowe, Casey, Danielak & Riboud) We’re in the home stretch now folks, as we follow the Gwinn sisters into [...]
26 Nancy Gwinn & Jacques Riboud (de la Chapelle, Lacombe, Kuhn and Corderoc’h)
26 Nancy Gwinn & Jacques Riboud (de la Chapelle, Lacombe, Kuhn and Corderoc'h) When two of the four daughters of my grandfather Richard [...]
27 The Cliff Notes Version of How We’re All Related
27 The Cliff Notes Version of How We're All Related Well, there you have it. That’s the Cliff Notes version of how this [...]
The Impossible Dream – Renaming the Reid Murdoch Building
Unfortunately I got carried away at the end and proposed that the name of the Reid Murdoch Building be changed to the Bowe Building. From the laughter and smirks on the faces of my kin, I could see they hadn’t been persuaded. That night I cried myself to sleep, knowing the Bowe Building would never come to be.
Writings & Clippings
Remarks, Reports, Clippings & Correspondence 2023-02-06 Rockets & Riots - Army Days (1968-1971) (William J. Bowe, Jr. Looks Back at a Tumultuous [...]
Featured Documents
FEATURED DOCUMENTS 2024-07-28 The Fantastic Life of Bill Bowe (Transcript of Chicago Tribune columnist Rick Kogan's interview of Bill Bowe on his radio [...]
