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I put together a set of web pages on my Westmeath Lowe genealogy project.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~villandra/LoweResearch.html
One group of families lived between Tyrrellspass and Athlone, along the border between Westmeath and Offaly/ Kings County. I found online a vague statement that they descend from George, one of two brothers who served in Cromwell's army as officers and were given large grants of land, one in Newtown and the other in Moycashel Barony (somewhere and probably in more than one location). Common sense points to that conclusion, since the two families were in exactly the same location, and used exactly the same male first names over and over again, some of them unusual, like Stephen and Nathaniel, and there are no other Lowe's to be found for a large distance around. The other brother, William, got Newtown-low and other manors in Newtown, and his line seems to have died out with possibly one exception. This leaves George and his largely unknown to me seven sons, and the names James and Samuel seem to have run down that line, picking up Nathaniel and Andrew as they went. Stephen and Thomas, and John and William, were part of the naming pattern that they brought from Worcestershire.
I included the names in Westmeath, Meath and OFfaly from the Irish Family History Society online bmd index. Tehre are way too many for any one person to afford to view. They begin just after my Nathaniel's time, but some deaths and marriages are recorded of people born earlier, and as I mentioned, there was a strong consistent naming pattern in the family. They lived in clumps in several discrete locations. Some seemed to remain in the lower ranks of gentry or middle class, and others were servants or laborers. That one of them rented out the land an RIC barracks stood on is a curiousity, given that my Nathaniel was in the RIC.
If anyone looks at some of tehse records, which can be viewed for $5 in eurodollars a piece, please let me know what you learn so that I can add it to my web site.
Some people in the genealogical snippets page are almost certainly also in the bmd index, so it pays to check. But I'm seeing evidence that births weren't registered immediately or people were christened a year or two later than they were born. Not necessarily. It was a huge clan, and the records have holes in them.
Yours,
Dora Smith
tiggernut24@yahoo.com
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