Richard Lawrence Gwinn, Jr. (1867-1932)
Richard Gwinn, Jr. (1867-1932) is featured in this slide show. After his first wife, Mary Roche, died giving birth to Mary Gwinn (Bowe) in 1901, he was remarried in 1907 to Elizabeth Tack. Soon Mary was joined by three new sisters, Betty, Martha and Nancy.
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 Coast, from France and from all points in between. The festivities began with a meet [...]
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, Sr. visiting his Canavan cousin Jim Hart's family after mustering out of the Army at [...]
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, it would break your coffee table in two. But it's not a book. It's merely [...]
Julia Lecour Bowe’s Preface to The Generations (1959)
Preface to The Generations (1959) by Julia Lecour Bowe What kind of a country was it that Paulin Pallissard came to in 1855? It was prairie land at the foot of Lake Michigan in a country along the Kankakee [...]
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) Kirby. Because the son Anthony Canavan, Sr. and his wife Ann Hughes emigrated to the [...]
William John Bowe, Sr. and Mary Gwinn Bowe Family Tree
Editor’s Note: These Bowe Family Trees are drawn from the family history book of my mother, Mary Gwinn Bowe, The Families, and the genealogy volume Descendants of Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes. These works were compiled over many years by [...]
Vanselow Family Trees
Wilhelm Vanselow married Bertha Dammer. Bertha Dammer was born in 1862.They had seven children: Mary, Otto, Albert, Paul, Arthur, Franziska and Clara. Mary Vanselow was born in 1880, Otto Paul Friedrich Vanselow was born in [...]
Tack Family Tree
Elizabeth Josephine Tack was the daughter of Theodore Edward Tack and Mary Agnes Cosgrave. She was a sibling of painter Augustus Vincent Tack and other children of Theodore and Mary Tack. In 1907 she married Richard Lawrence Gwinn, Jr. [...]
