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, Augustine Bowe in 1927. Gus, as he was known, was Julia’s cousin once removed, being [...]
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 had grown up. There she married Edward Lecour. Edward’s family was of French extraction and [...]
2002 Charley and Rob Bowe Investigate Their Lecour Roots in Kankakee, Illinois
2002 Charley and Rob Bowe Investigate Their Lecour Roots in Kankakee, Illinois Editor's Note: In February, 2002, Charley, June, Alice, Rob and Daisy Bowe journeyed south of Chicago to seek out and visit the Lecour roots of Charley and [...]
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 [...]
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., [...]
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 [...]
Augustine & Julia Bowe Family Tree
Julie Anne Bowe (Thompson) Trees John Edward Bowe Trees Editor's Note: These Bowe Family Trees are drawn from the genealogy volume Descendants of Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes. I recently compiled this history based on the research done [...]
