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- From: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~villandra/momi/i3714.htm#i4586
A photo of him was seemingly taken at Arless, 251 St. James Street, Montreal, whenever he was in Montreal. He lived and died in Ireland.
Marriage was a civil marriage, from IFHF web site. Was in 1862, in Fermanagh. didn't purchase the record.
Baptism record from IFHF web site. Nathaniel Lowe, bapt 17 12 1837. Address, Outerard. Parish/ District: Kilcummin. Co. Galway. Church of Ireland. Father Henry Lowe, mother Catherine Lowe, occupation of father: Police Constable. Sponsors not recorded. Notes: By John Wilson.
From Griffith's Evaluation: Henry N. Lowe County Fermanagh Parish Ennskillen Location: T/Enniskillen Darling St (T may mean Tempo.) (By 1881 the business was at 7 High St. and I think something may have been on Queens St.)
In addition to my family records and Edna Quinlan's, I have info on those of the family who died in Enniskillen from Cardinal Dundas' Ennikillen, Parish and town (1912), from the Ennsikillen parish church graveyard list. This church is now the Church of Ireland cathedral, St. Mcartyn's.
Henry Nathaniel b abt 1837 based on age of death, family records have him b 1837 or 1838. d 24 Feb 1905, Clonmel, Co Tipperary, at age 65, of heart disease, after a brief illness, lived 4 Anne Street. This all confirmed by death certificate among other things.
He m 1861 or 1862 Tempo Church near Enniskillen, Fermanagh Cty or Fanet Mary Dixon b [from Dundas, 14 Aug 1837] at Fanet?
Lived at Enniskillen, Fermanagh County. His business and possibly his residence was at 7 High St, in Enniskillen. He described himself as a printer, bookseller, and agent for several businesses in the Fermanagh Directory which he published.
He owned and edited the Fermanagh Times, a newspaper. He owned a general shop, sold all sorts of things, in Enniskillen; he advertised in the Fermanagh Directory which he published in 1879 and 1880 and also in his paper that he sold stationery, books, patent medicines, hard liquor, groceries etc., and his wife sold shoes and boots, and he ran a printing press, and at one point published a newspaper. All of this at once.
He began, according to Seamuas McCanny who is an Enniskillen author with an interest in history of that period, as a conducting clerk with the Enniskillen solicitor Archibald Collum. Later became Deputy Clerk of the Peace for Enniskillen and agent for Enniskillen Corporation. His court position consisted of keeping records, notes of what happened in court, and preparing papers. He also, according to his own advertisemments and a lawsuit against him, acted as agent for a number of not local businesses, in addition to acting as agent for the feudal estate that consisted of rental properties and was managed by a committee of Enniskillen citizens. It was called Enniskillen Corporation.
In the 1870's he set in business as a printer and stationer at 'The Enniskillen Printing Company' 7, High Street Enniskillen. He was one of the earliest properietors of the Fermanagh Times. The paper went bakrupt and had to be bought over and managed by a local committee in 1881.
He moved to Clonmel County, Tippperary, where he was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Peace for that county and died there at 4 Anne St in 1905.
He republished Lowe's Fermanagh Directory and Household Almanc for 1880 .
His Fermanagh directory was republished in 1990 as Fermanagh One Hundred Years Ago, and several people on the web did lookups in it for me. He set up as a printer and stationer in the 1870's in Enniskillen, at The Enniskillen Printing Company, at 7 High St. In 1881 he became publisher of the Fermanagh Times. He was one of its earliest proprietors. He does not seem tohave been editor. The paper seems to have been started by Lord Erne, who was probably a political reactionary, and A. W. Wheeler published it in 1880. To the degree that the paper involved any politics they were probably pro- large landlord, as there was a need for such a paper since the tenants rights (Land League) movement was well organized and strong in Fermanagh and another paper was owned by a wealthy but liberal and eccentric landowner who took liberal views. But the paper may have become more political after a reactionary editor took it over from the local committee who took it over from Lowe.
"Earlier in 1880 he had sold off the boot and shoe part of his business but it was announced that he would continue trading in ladies' boots. He resigned as agent for Enniskillen Corporation (This seems to ahve been a rent/rate collecting job) shortly after her death. The printing press (which was the first steam printing press in Fermanagh and thus much faster than the hand presses) was mvoed from High Street where he had his shop which continued for other goods apart from the boots and shoes, to Townhall St.,"
Henry Lowe's involvement with the paper didn't last long. He lost his wife to tuberculosis in January 1881, went bankrupt, and lost the paper in April 1881. The paper went bankrupt and was taken over by a local comittee. He was forced to resign from his position as agent for the Enniskillen Corporation,which owned a large amount of property and managed it, in October 1881, due to financial irregularities on his part. He failed to account for the rents he was responsible for collecting and appears to have personally spent some of it. From notes of committee meetings people felt rather sorry for him.Also, he was repeatedly described as ill and unable to get out of bed.
I have a letter from Seamus that After H.N. Lowe resigned (from the paper, apparently), bankruptcy proceedings began and in September a sale of his goods was announced, inlcuidng an insurance policy that stated that he was 44 years of age. Teh newspaper came into the hands of solicitor Joseph Alexander. One of the reports mentioned that he had been appointed agent of the corporation in 1870.
Seamus McCanny has a note that at the bankruptcy hearing in Dublin in May , 1881, Henry Nathaniel's mother said he was in America. I suspect that Joseph Lowe's time in North America dates to this time; he was between 12 and 16 years old in 1881. He wrote that he was a raw lad when he stayed with his mother's brother Joseph in Canada. By 1885, the Fermanagh Times reported that Joseph Allen Lowe was sporting editor of the Montreal Gazette. That is not possible if he was not born until 1869, LOL. Seamus and I wonder for how long he was hiding in America. He didn't become a Mason again in Clonmel until 1889. Of course, he did have a bout of depression.
He got into a couple of conflicts with people; a lawsuit from Dr. Collum for whom he had become agent, perhaps a relative of the Collum he originally worked for. He was sued for libel - by Dr. Collum? When he went bankrupt, he claimed that one of his main backers failed to back him because he had refused her demand that he make a donation to the Methodist Church. Lord knows if this is true or why he relied on such a person if it was. Clearly he was overextended at the time when this happened or someone failing to back him could not have made a difference AND he would not have gone bankrupt. Whatever happened, he struck out particularly nastily at others instead of taking responsibility for his role in his own affairs. Even in his son Joseph's telling of it, it was someone else's fault. He was robbed.
Seamas McCanny says he started on the newspaper business AFTER this (this what? He went bankrupt while he was publishing the paper) but it was after he opened the print shop in East Bridge Street. In notes about his family's life events in his paper and his Fermanagh business directory, ca 1879 - 81, he lists his business at 7 High St and the family residence as High St.
After all of this, he moved to Clonmel, in Co Tipperary, where he again was appointed deputy clerk of the peace, and he died there, apparently with no more excitement.
People came from Cavan, Leitrim, Donegal and Tyrone for his wife's funeral; pretty much all places members of their families are connected with. Two people sent me copies of her obituary, which sounds touchingly like something either of my grandparents or his son would have written. It is pretty clear that he at least wrote the obituary for his wife - and also that he loved and greatly missed her.
[There is more at website quoted at top-personal notes]
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Singing Our Family Song
1837 - 1905 (68 years)
