Navy Fighter Pilot & Diplomat Will Parish Moves On
Will Parish Has a New Career after the Navy In spring, 2023, Naval Academy graduate Will Parish, finished a distinguished 21-year career in the [...]
Architectural Boat Tour: The Movie
Architectural Boat Tour: The Movie Editor's Note: The first event of the Canavan Family Reunion in 2021 was an exclusive Chicago River tour with [...]
6 The Canavans Abandon Ship
The Canavan related crowd abandoned ship in good order and surprisingly quickly. The rapidity of their departure was driven no doubt by the desire not to miss a minute of the approaching cocktail hour at The Cliff Dwellers.
5 Eastbound to Navy Pier & a Return to Riverwalk
The next leg of the Canavan Family Reunion architectural boat tour took us east to the turning basin by the Chicago locks. There, adjacent to nearby Navy Pier, we stared into the sun and took in Chicago’s striking skyline.
The Impossible Dream – Renaming the Reid Murdoch Building
Unfortunately I got carried away at the end and proposed that the name of the Reid Murdoch Building be changed to the Bowe Building. From the laughter and smirks on the faces of my kin, I could see they hadn’t been persuaded. That night I cried myself to sleep, knowing the Bowe Building would never come to be.
1 From the Riverwalk to Wolf Point
Out chartered tour boat proceeded west towards Wolf Point, passing under the DuSable, Rush, State, Dearborn, Clark, LaSalle, Wells and Franklin bascule bridges over the Chicago River. Our docent guide from the Chicago Architectural Foundation filled us in on the significance of the City’s famous buildings along this stretch of the River.
2 From Wolf Point to Montgomery Ward on The North Branch
Rounding the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Chicago River at Wolf Point, Chicago’s Classic Lady headed up the North Branch to the turning basin at Goose Island by the original Montgomery Ward warehouse and office complex.
27 The Cliff Notes Version of How We’re All Related
27 The Cliff Notes Version of How We're All Related Well, there you have it. That’s the Cliff Notes version of how this [...]
2021-18 Catherine Collette Canavan & William Wallace Parish II
Catherine Collette Canavan & William Wallace Parish II The Parish family tree shows that Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes’s daughter Catherine Canavan married [...]
2021-05 James Canavan & Julia Kingsley (Mabel Canavan Lecour)
James Canavan & Julia Kingsley (Mabel Canavan Lecour) As the oldest of the 13 children of Anthony Canavan, Sr. and Ann Hughes, James [...]
2021-04 The 13 Children of Anthony Canavan, Sr. and Ann Hughes
The 13 Children of Anthony Canavan, Sr. and Ann Hughes In this family tree, you see all the 13 children of Anthony Canavan, [...]
2021-03 Coming to America – John Casey on Anthony Canavan, Sr. and Ann Hughes
Coming to America - John Casey on Anthony Canavan, Sr. and Ann Hughes Editor's Note: In 1987, I sat down with my uncle [...]
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 [...]
1935: The Parishes & Bowes in Palos Park
Editor’s Note: The still picture above was taken in Palos Park, Illinois by my mother Mary Gwinn Bowe in 1935. It shows my father, William John Bowe, Sr., [...]
1987 (5) Catherine Canavan Parish (1859-1940) and William Wallace Parish (-1944)
John also remembers the 3rd youngest child of Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes, Catherine Canavan Parish, who married William Wallace Parish of Momence, Illinois
The Children of Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes
Long story short: they quit after 13.
2023 Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes Descendants
Descendants of Anthony Canavan & Ann Hughes Index of Individual Canavan Descendants Index of Canavan Descendant Locations
Cathy Parish Skura Remembers her Parents’ Era in Momence, Illinois
Editor's Note: Cathy Parish Skura may have left Momence to live elsewhere as an adult, but she didn't leave fond memories behind. The Paris [...]
The Families Vol. 2 Website Launches
November 29, 2020 Well over 50 people joined the Zoom launch meeting yesterday for The Families: Vol. 2 website. They came from the West [...]
All the Kids of Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes and Then Some
Editor's Note: If the tome of Descendants of Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes were in book form and you weren't careful, [...]
2001-05-27 Anna Victoria Skura Family Index and Parish-Skura Album and Genealogy
2001-05-27 Anna Victoria Skura Family Index and Parish-Skura Album and GenealogyEditor's Note: During high school, Anna Victoria Skura, a Parish family descendant, completed her assignment. [...]
1984-03-15 The Parish Family and the Momence, Illinois Sesquicentennial (Momence Progress-Reporter Newspaper Article)
Editor's Note: At 19, William Parish, Sr. travelled from Naples, New York by way of the "Strap Railroad," the Erie Canal, a lake steamer [...]
Have Your Heard? Ova Parish is Flying to Meet the Queen!
Yes, You Heard it Right: Ova Parish is Flying to The Netherlands to Meet Queen Beatrix on an All Expenses Trip Paid for by [...]
Skura and Grubert Family Trees
William Wallace Parish and Ova Frantz Parish's daughter Catherine Ann Parish married John Joseph Skura. John was born January 10, 1943. [...]
Parish Family Tree
Anthony Canavan, Sr. and Ann Hughes had 12 children that lived into adulthood. Their daughter Catherine Collette Canavan was born in 1859 in Sumner [...]
1949 U.S. Tax Court Opinion
ESTATE OF PARISH v. COMMISSIONERDocket No. 12295.8 T.C.M. 257 (1949)Estate of William W. Parish, Deceased, Varnum A. Parish, as Administrator de bonis non v. Commissioner.United [...]
