Cathy, Andy, Pat and I welcome you to this collection of family memories and histories, and some personal odds and ends
You are included in the extended Canavan Family celebrated on this website if you are a descendant of Anthony Canavan (1790-1860) and his wife Catherine Kirby ( -1862) or if someone in your own extended family married one of these descendants. Who knows, with a little bit of luck, and help from a few self-selected pack rats in generations that follow me, perhaps this archive may give birth to an even larger and self-sustaining grab bag of interesting and important lore for this extended family.
Visit Your Family Tree & See How We’re All Related
Bowe, Burg, Cain, Canavan, Casey, Corderoc’h, Danielak, de la Chapelle, De Rosa, Duhn, Dunn, Dwyer, Gomez, Grubert, Gwinn, Hanley, Hart, Heck, Heffron, Kuhn, Lacombe, Lecour, Lynch, McPherson, McNulty, Meyer, Parish, Pleil, Riboud, Reyes, Romano, Skura, Sundstrom, Swanson, Tack, Terpstra, Thompson, Truskey, Turner, Vanselow, Walters, Wernstedt, Williams
The Archive is a collection of more than 90,000 fully captioned and indexed photographs taken in over 60 countries. The oldest picture in the Archive is one of my mother’s mother and dates from her birth 1n 1861, the same year the American Civil War began. However, family photos make up but a small fraction of the Archive’s diverse contents. The photos are embedded with over 40,000 keywords, geotags, and abbreviated name codes, and the collection is easily searchable by entering a term in the Photo Archive Search Box. If you’re curious if a particular individual is in the Archive, you can also consult the Photo Archive Names in the A-Z list. It shows the names of the 2,800 individuals indexed in the Archive. Archive photos can be freely downloaded for private use by clicking on a photo’s adjacent download arrow icon, and prints are similarly available if you wish to order them. Go to the Photo Archive.
THE PRIMOGENITORS
Believe it or not, each member of the families listed above has at least one or more relatives who are either descended from or married to a descendant of Anthony Canavan, Moses Bowe, Richard Gwinn, Sr. or Paul (“Bon Papa”) Riboud.
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.
Moses Bowe
Moses Bowe (1833-1912) His Arrival and His Legacy
Richard Gwinn, Sr.
Richard Lawrence Gwinn , Sr. (a twin brother of John Chesley Gwinn) was born in Newton County , Georgia in 1831 and died in Philadelphia in 1898.
Paul (Bon Papa) Riboud
Paul Riboud in 1949 Chindrieux, France
