...As far as I can figure out Fred Lowe had a falling out with his mother over giving the land, which became Brookside to Grandmother after she married.

..Grandmother Lowe just had the 2 boys and 2 girls. Mrs Paddock, he was buried at sea as they came over. The girl died around twenty, the son Richard became a drunken bum, he later lived in Pt Maitland with Uncle William. He never had to work.

..I remember Uncle William when I was about 5. Dad had taken us all to Port. It was the 24th May. While Dad and Bud fished, Mother took us into see Uncle William. I'll never forget. He sat holding a basin for the blood to drip from a cancer on his cheek. Some years before he'd triped over a cat and struck his cheek on the corner of the table.

Letter dated Sept 16, [19]84

..Grandmother [Isabella] had two uncles, who had an orchestra which played for royalty and they would set her with them when they did. She would be about 4, as they came here when she was 5.

..Also mother would speak of Hanna Snell, who doned her husbands armour (command officer) when he was wounded and led the army to victory, tho wounded herself. Years later the king found out and rewarded her by having two pictures painted, one still hangs in the royal art gallery, and grandmothers was shot up by Napoleon's cannons.

..Uncle Fred Lowe seemed to be on the "outs". Mother told me one day, that she was they only one her mother told. That when Grandmother Lowe gave them Brookside land, Uncle Fred was so angry, that he put a curse on the land 'That there would be no success or happiness for anyone there'. Grandmother cried when she told mother. I remember mother rarely mentioned him. I believe he worked in Toronto as an artist for the lion's stained glass. I never heard of him travelling. Probably had little use for the Crawfords.

..One of the uncles had a daughter by one of his mother's maids. Had her given his name and christened in the church. I remember Flo Lowe coming to see mother, she lived in Toronto.

From Edwina Blott:

...I remember Mother saying her Aunt Charlotte Lowe [?] had taught the younger ones before she returned to England...Isabella, who was the youngest, might have gone to school after that.

...Asked about Lowe's, my mother's answer "the least said about the Lowes the better"

...Elizabeth Eyles Lowe had earned her living as a glove maker before her marriage to John Lowe