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 [...]
1993 Rob Bowe Gives Andy and Pat Bowe the Freborg House Tour, 2347 North Cambridge Avenue
1993 Rob Bowe Gives Andy and Pat Bowe the Freborg House Tour, 2347 North Cambridge Avenue Editor's Note: In April, 1993, I was driving into the Lincoln Park neighborhood to show Andy and Pat where I once lived [...]
1986 Julia Lecour Bowe Celebrates Her 85th Birthday, 1324 Asbury Avenue, Winnetka, Illinois
1986 Julia Lecour Bowe Celebrates Her 85th Birthday, 1324 Asbury Avenue, Winnetka, Illinois Editor's Note: In April, 1986, John Bowe pickup up his mother Julia Lecour Bowe from the Maryhaven Nursing Home in Glenview and drove her to [...]
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 [...]
Mary Gwinn Bowe Photos (1901-1979)
Mary Gwinn Bowe Photos As happened not infrequently in those days, when Mary Gwinn Bowe entered the world in Baltimore, Maryland in 1901, her mother, Mary Roche Gwinn, left it. Her father, Richard Gwinn, Jr. immediately turned to his [...]
1981 Julie Anne Bowe Thompson (1931-1981)
Julie Anne Bowe Thompson was the daughter of Augustine Joseph Bowe and Julia Leonie Lecour Bowe. She was born in 1931, three years after her only sibling John Edward Bowe was born. As a young child she often navigated her Chicago block with John in a stroller he had recently outgrown.
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 [...]
