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Descendants of Edward Lowery

Generation No. 1

1. Edward¹ Lowery was born Abt. 1820 in Ireland. He married Bridget Lowery 1850. She was born Abt. 1820 in Ireland.

Child of Edward Lowery and Bridget Lowery is:

John J.² Lowery, born 1852 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland; died April 1925 in Clonbur, Co. Galway, Ireland.

Generation No. 2

2. John J.² Lowery (Edward¹) was born 1852 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland, and died April 1925 in Clonbur, Co. Galway, Ireland. He married Kate Comer 1884 in Clonbur, Co. Galway, Ireland, daughter of Martin Comer and Bridget Halloran. She was born 1859 in Clogbrack, Co. Galway, Ireland, and died 1947 in Clonbur, Co. Galway, Ireland.

Children of John Lowery and Kate Comer are:

+	3	i.	John Joseph³ Lowery, born April 08, 1885 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland; died August 09, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois.
+	4	ii.	Martin Lowery, born 1887 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland; died 1954 in Chicago, Illinois.
+	5	iii.	Michael Lowery, born 1888 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland; died Unknown in Pittsburg, Pennslyvania.
+	6	iv.	Bridget Lowery, born 1894 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland; died 1984 in Chicago, Illinois.
	7	v.	Patrick Lowery, born 1898 in Cornamoona, CO. Galway, Ireland; died 1972 in Cornamoona, CO. Galway, Ireland.

Notes for Patrick Lowery:
My mother tells me that Patrick did not marry and stayed in Ireland. He had seizures or some kind of disability.

+	8	vi.		David Lowery, born 1902 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland; died 1976 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland.
+	9	vii.		Mary Lowery, born Unknown in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland; died August 1961 in Chicago, Illinois.

Generation No. 3

3. John Joseph³ Lowery (John J.², Edward¹) was born April 08, 1885 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland, and died August 09, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois. He married Mary Catherine Mannion February 22, 1911 in Immaculate Conception, Chicago, Ill., daughter of John Mannion and Mary Cadhain). She was born October 05, 1884 in Inver, RosMuc, Co. Galway, Ireland, and died January 14, 1978 in Chicago, Illinios.

Children of John Lowery and Mary Mannion are:

+	10	i.	John Joseph⁴ Lowery, Jr., born January 04, 1912 in Chicago, Illinois.
+	11	ii.	Mary Catherine Lowery, born June 16, 1913 in Chicago, Illinois.
+	12	iii.	Martin Patrick Lowery, born November 12, 1914 in Chicago, Illinois; died November 04, 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.
	13	iv.	Francis Michael Lowery, born June 01, 1917.
	14	v.	James Edward Lowery, born June 07, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois ¹; died May 19, 1986 in Chicago, Illinois.
+	15	vi.	Margaret Patricia Lowery, born March 12, 1921.
+	16	vii.	Eileen Therese Lowery, born September 08, 1922.

4. Martin³ Lowery (John J.², Edward¹) was born 1887 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland, and died 1954 in Chicago, Illinois. He married Kate Carney in Chicago, Illinois. She was born Unknown, and died Unknown.

Children of Martin Lowery and Kate Carney are:

+	17	i.	Mary⁴ Lowery, born 1920.
+	18	ii.	Bernice Lowery, born 1921.
	19	iii.	Martin Lowery, born 1923; died 1976.
	20	iv.	John Lowery, born 1925; died 1984.
+	21	v.	Margaret (Peggy) Lowery, born 1927 in Chicago, Illinois; died 1985 in Chicago, Illinois.

5. Michael³ Lowery (John J.², Edward¹) was born 1888 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland, and died Unknown in Pittsburg, Pennslyvania. He married Catherine Coyne in Pittsburg, Pennslyvania. She was born Unknown in Clonbur, Co. Galay, Ireland, and died Unknown.

Children of Michael Lowery and Catherine Coyne are:

+	22	i.	Martin⁴ Lowery, born 1928.
	23	ii.	John (Jack) Lowery.
	24	iii.	Regis Lowery.
	25	iv.	Catherine Lowery.
+	26	v.	Michael Joseph Lowery, born 1927.
	27	vi.	Margaret Lowery. She married Joseph Sullivan.
	28	vii.	Mark Lowery.

6. Bridget³ Lowery (John J.², Edward¹) was born 1894 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland, and died 1984 in Chicago, Illinois. She married John McDermott in Chicago, Illinois. He was born 1901 in Ireland, and died 1991 in Chicago, Illinois.

Children of Bridget Lowery and John McDermott are:

	29	i.	Mary⁴ McDermott, born 1936. She married John Blankenship; born 1927; died 1992.
	30	ii.	John McDermott, born Unknown.
+	31	iii.	Theresa McDermott, born Unknown.

8. David³ Lowery (John J.², Edward¹) was born 1902 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland, and died 1976 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland. He married Margaret Lowery 1934 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland. She was born Unknown in Co. Galway, Ireland, and died 1986 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland.

Children of David Lowery and Margaret Lowery are:

	32	i.	Mary⁴ Lowery, born 1936. She married Johm McCarthy.
	33	ii.	Bridget Lowery, born 1938.
	34	iii.	Peggy Lowery, born 1940. She married Anthony Cummings.
+	35	iv.	Patrick (Padraig) Lowery, born 1947 in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland.

9. Mary³ Lowery (John J.², Edward¹) was born Unknown in Cornamoona, Co. Galway, Ireland, and died August 1961 in Chicago, Illinois. She married Thomas Hannigan in Chicago, Illinois. He was born Unknown in Ireland, and died Unknown in Ireland.

Children of Mary Lowery and Thomas Hannigan are:

+	36	i.	Rita⁴ Hannigan, born 1919.
+	37	ii.	Mary Hannigan, born 1920.
+	38	iii.	Buddy Hannigan, born 1922.

Generation No. 4

10. John Joseph⁴ Lowery, Jr. (John Joseph³, John J.², Edward¹) was born January 04, 1912 in Chicago, Illinois. He married Eileen Cassidy 1938 in Immaculate Conception, Chicago, Illinois. She was born February 18, 1916, and died July 28, 1994.

Children of John Lowery and Eileen Cassidy are:

+	39	i.	Mary⁵ Lowery, born February 08, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois.
+	40	ii.	John Joseph Lowery III, born March 01, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois.
	41	iii.	Eileen Lowery, born May 20, 1953. She married David Snitchler 1982; born January 02, 1950.
	42	iv.	Martin Patrick Lowery, born September 16, 1958.
+	43	v.	Francis James Lowery, born November 04, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois.

11. Mary Catherine⁴ Lowery (John Joseph³, John J.², Edward¹) was born June 16, 1913 in Chicago, Illinois. She married Thomas Patrick Duffy September 24, 1938 in Immaculate Conception, Chicago, Illinois, son of Patrick Duffy and Nora Dolan. He was born July 07, 1907 in Chicago, Illinois, and died March 07, 1987 in Elk Grove Village, Il. (ALexian Bros Hosp).

Notes for Thomas Patrick Duffy:
Dad was a loving man he loved his family. He was grateful for opportunities in America and worked often two jobs when we were young. He painted houses for people in the neighborhood or business owners he met on his beat. He was stationed at Sheffield station when we were kids. It was on Sheffield Avenue just south of Diversey. He became closely tied to the Lowery family since he had very little family in Chicago, just his Aunt Annie and Uncle Martin Hunt and their families. We would visit his Aunt Nell (his Uncle Martin's widow) in Jerseyville, Illinois when we were young. Uncle Martin died around 1942 but had been an Illinois Representative. He had been brought to America when he was a small child by his father. They wound up in Jerseyville. Apparently the father could not find work and returned to Ireland but left Martin to a farm family in Jerseyville where he worked on the farm. Martin was only 9 or 11 years old at that time. Martin brought Dad's mother, Nora, to America in the late 1898/9. He brought her to Jerseyville and then sent her to a sewing school in Joliet. She became a seamstress for Marshall Field and the story is she was asked to be a buyer. Nora met and married Patrick Duffy in Chicago, probably around 1906.atrick was a motorman on the Chicago transit system. They lived on the west side of Chicago. Dad was baptized in St. Agatha parish(I believe on Madison Street).
Nora for reasons that are unclear decided to return to Ireland initially for a vacation with her two sons, Thomas and James, around 1909 She decided to stay there on family land in Deerveeney. The story is that she wrote to her husband Patrick who was working in Chicago and told him that if he did not return to Ireland that the children would have her name. Her daughter Marie (Michael Coan's mom) was born after she returned to Ireland. Patrick did return to Ireland. They subsequently had two more children, Mary Ellen and Nora. Patrick got sick in 1918 and died. It is said that he had a sore on his back that did not heal. He was in a lot of pain.
Dad always wanted to return to America his home. He left Ireland to work in Scotland in 1925, returned to Ireland 1926 to work in a sawmill in Tourmakeady. Left Ireland in January 1928 went to London and eventually to Fort William, Scotland, to work on a tunnel. Did so until May 25, 1929 when he left from Glasgow, Scotland and landed in New York June 2, 1929.
His Aunt Annie Duffy Hunt had long wanted Thomas to return to the US. When he came to Chicago he stayed in her home on 1814 North Lotus for a short time before going to Jerseyville where he stayed for a while with his Uncle Martin Dolan and Aunt Nell. He subsequently came to Chicago where he lived largely in rooming houses on LaSalle Street. He worked as an elevator man for a while. In summer he worked at a golf course in, I think, Western Springs. This was during the worst of depression. He had very little if any money. He talked about living in cardboard boxes on the golf course for a time. Jobs and opportunities were not available during the depression.
Eventually he took the police exam and with the help of Paddy Bauler, the alderman of the 42nd ward in Chicago, he was able to secure job as a Chicago Policeman in 1938. To do so he lied about his age so there are some discrepancies in records.
He married Mary Lowery in 1939 and lived on North Park Avenue in a four room apartment from 1938 to 1956. During that time his three children were born: Noreen, Patricia, and James. A stillborn child Mary Clare was born in 1954(?). Michael Coan, son of his sister Marie who died shortly after Michael was born in childbirth, came to America and lived with us in May 1954.

Children of Mary Lowery and Thomas Duffy are:

+	44	i.	Noreen Marie⁵ Duffy, born August 29, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois.
+	45	ii.	Patricia Alice Duffy, born July 31, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois.
	46	iii.	James Thomas Duffy, born June 03, 1946. He married Susan Abramowicz July 14, 1986 in St. Patrick Church, Chicago, Illinois; born December 24, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois.
	47	iv.	Mary Clare Duffy, born January 20, 1954; died January 20, 1954.