03-20-2006, 10:31 PM
lowell497@hotmail.com
>
> Hi. I found this site after reading the article in the citizen on Sunday.
> I'm so excited about this. My husbands family arrived in St. Columban
> around 1860. His great-great grandfather was Patrick Emmett Lowell
> (listed in church records as Lavelle. His great grandmother and
> grandfather were married at St. Columban in 1867. The register shows the
> names as Peter Lavelle and Marian McGarr. I don't know whether the name
> was Lavelle and then changed to Lowell or if the Lavelle was just a case
> of misunderstanding on the part of the priest. The children are all
> recorded as Lavelle also. We have at least two people buried in St.
> Columban Patrick Lowell (Lavelle), A son of Patrick Emmett and Elenora
> Monaghan, he was about 23 died July 25, 1867. Also Elenora Monaghan died
> August 22, 1862 will still in St. Columban so she must be buried there
> too. Sometime before 1881 they all moved to Low Quebec and from then on
> the name is recorded as Lowell. I'd like to find out about the name and
> try and find out where they came from in Ireland. I will be contributing
> to the restoration fund I think this is a wonderful project. It will
> probably take me some time to learn how to navigate and use this site.
> Hope I don't make too many mistakes. Please let me know if I can
> contribute any information to the site.
>
> Eileen Lowell
> Braeside, Ont.
>
> Hi. I found this site after reading the article in the citizen on Sunday.
> I'm so excited about this. My husbands family arrived in St. Columban
> around 1860. His great-great grandfather was Patrick Emmett Lowell
> (listed in church records as Lavelle. His great grandmother and
> grandfather were married at St. Columban in 1867. The register shows the
> names as Peter Lavelle and Marian McGarr. I don't know whether the name
> was Lavelle and then changed to Lowell or if the Lavelle was just a case
> of misunderstanding on the part of the priest. The children are all
> recorded as Lavelle also. We have at least two people buried in St.
> Columban Patrick Lowell (Lavelle), A son of Patrick Emmett and Elenora
> Monaghan, he was about 23 died July 25, 1867. Also Elenora Monaghan died
> August 22, 1862 will still in St. Columban so she must be buried there
> too. Sometime before 1881 they all moved to Low Quebec and from then on
> the name is recorded as Lowell. I'd like to find out about the name and
> try and find out where they came from in Ireland. I will be contributing
> to the restoration fund I think this is a wonderful project. It will
> probably take me some time to learn how to navigate and use this site.
> Hope I don't make too many mistakes. Please let me know if I can
> contribute any information to the site.
>
> Eileen Lowell
> Braeside, Ont.