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In about the year 1834, Colonel Johnson, with
the intention of |
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a settlement in Upper Canada, brought out from England, a number
of young men, sons of military friends in England. Among these
were three sons of Colonel Lowe, William, Frederick and John.
Several hundred acres of land were taken up along Lake Erie
shore, west of the Grand River. |
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Two years
later, having built a log house, the Lowe brothers sent |
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mother, now a widow, to come out to them. She brought out her
two daughters, a grandson and a granddaughter. The elder daughter
was Mrs Paddock, also a widow, with her son Richard and her
daughter Jane; the youngest daughter, Isabel West Lowe, being
only nine years old, was left by Mrs Lowe, in Toronto, at that
time York, where she obtained her education , at Bishop Strachan's
School. |
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The journey
by sailboat, required about three months, to New York, |
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river boat up the Hudson to Albany, then across L. Ontario to
York. The Lowe family then built a substantial stone residence,
at the landward end of the point, later known as Lowe's point,
which comprised a part of the several hundred acres of land
they had taken up. They had to burn the lime, from the limestone
of the locality, in a kiln at the end of the point. This building
took some time, but the ruins of it still stood until recently. |
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In 1850,
Isabel married James Urmston Crawford, who had come |
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England
also. Their family consisted of eleven children, six daughters
and five sons. Mrs Fred Cook and Emma Crawford still survive. |
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William
and Frederick Lowe never married, John married and settled |
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but there were no children, so the Lowe property was sold, in
the course of time. Mrs. Paddock had returned to England, Jane
had died young, and Richard never married. |
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There are
no descendants by the name of Lowe, so no more Lowe |
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Descendants of the Lowe-Crawford union are Crawfords, Blotts,
Bates and Cooks |
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Note:
Aunt Hattie died in 1950, so this was written prior to that
date. John Lowe was not a Col., but an officer in the Commissariat,
see "The Case and Conduct of Mr Lowe.
The daughter, Mrs Paddock, was Jane Elizabeth. Her daughter
was baptized Mary West Paddock
There
is no record of a Bishop Strachan's school before 1860, according
to the Anglican Church Archives.
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