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. I’d be delighted to post any family photos, documents, videos or recordings you’d like to update me with. Who knows, with a little bit of luck, and help from a few self-selected pack rats in generations that follow me, this archive may even become an ever larger and self-sustaining grab bag of interesting and important lore for this extended family.
Featured family stories
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 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
