Gwinn Family Tree
Our progenitor Richard Lawrence Gwinn, Sr. was born in 1833 in Newton County, Georgia. He was the son of Minor Gwinn and Mary Ann Scott Melton. Richard Lawrence died on December 1, 1898, at the age [...]
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 offshoots. In the top tree above, we see our progenitor Anthony Canavan, Sr. He was [...]
Lecour Family Tree
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 U.S., [...]
1989 – The Ribouds & Lacombes at Vieux Moulin
1989 - Visiting the Ribouds and Lacombes at Vieux Moulin Arriving with Jean Gwinn Riboud, Bill Bowe visits his Aunt Nancy's country home outside Paris in Vieux Moulin and is greeted by Nancy, Jacques and Livie Riboud and Henri and [...]
2021 Old Chicago
Editor's Note: Here is a collection of photos and postcards of a now lost Chicago shown at The Cliff Dwellers at a Canavan Family Reunion in 2021. The images date from 1867. The slideshow is accompanied by music [...]
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 the result of years of research and writing. This was of course in the era [...]
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 past and the American future they made for themselves in the 1850s when some of [...]
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 Bowe. I was even more delighted when he asked me to write a preface to [...]
