On the Abaconian settlement of Green Turtle Cay, William Albert Lowe anxiously awaited while his wife Annie Estelle Curry gave birth to their red-headed daughter Iva Alice. Iva recounted that her mother Annie lost her first child, a boy. Albert and Annie were blessed with four surviving children: Vertrum, Iva, Alton
During the summer’s dead heat of 1858, Green Turtle Cay residents John Lowe (1823-1898) and Rebecca “Becky” Saunders (1824-1908) welcomed their first son, John Aquilla. With three older girls ages 2-6 and no modern conveniences, Becky kept occupied. Encouragement and aid reached out from the hands of the close-knit New Plymouth community known to support each other. Father John felt
During the 19th and 20th centuries, two Scottish brothers, William and Robert Chambers, published a weekly magazine in London. The first edition of Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art circulated in 1832 and was priced at one penny. Recently I stumbled across an article online in their May 1867 publication. It describes a
