LOWE, John Estwick (1913-1995)

LOWE, John Estwick (1913-1995)

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John Estwick ‘Ekkie’ Lowe was born on May 20, 1913, in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco to John Aquilla Lowe (1858-1925) and Mildred Elizabeth Pearce (1881?-1956).

His siblings included…

His half-siblings included…

  • Osgood Joseph (1886)
  • Edwin (1888)
  • Mira (1890)
  • Howard (1898)

In Dade County, Florida on 26 July 1948, Ekkie married Maud Edith Knowles (1913-2007) from Nassau, New Providence. She is the daughter of John Henry ‘Harry’ Knowles (1879-1964) and Charlotte Rebecca Fernander (1884-1919). The couple had no children.

Ekkie was a clerk at John S. George and Co. in Nassau, New Providence.

John Estwick Lowe passed away on January 21, 1995 (age 81) in Nassau, New Providence and is buried in the Ebenezer Church cemetery.

1-Hartley Bernard Roberts (1889-1941)
2-Mira Lowe Roberts (1890-1979)
3-Harrison Russell ?
4-William R Franks
5-John Aquilla Lowe (1858-1925)
6-Howard Lowe (1898-1927)
7-Carl M Padgett
8-Margaret Mizpah Roberts White (1913-2007)
9-Osgood Joseph Lowe (1886-1970)
10-Mrs. William R Franks ?
11-Mildred Elizabeth Pearce (1880-1956)
12-John Estwick ‘Ekkie’ Lowe (1913-1995)
Ekkie with his mother Mildred Elizabeth Pearce Lowe
Top Row L-R: John Estwick Lowe, Maud Edith (Knowles) Lowe, Horatio Knowles
Bottom Row L-R: Durward Randolph Knowles, Irma Elaine (Pinder) Knowles, John Henry “Harry” Knowles Jr.
Photo courtesy of David Weech
L to R – Iris Isabell (Lowe) Saunders, John Estwick ‘Ekkie’ Lowe and Maud Edith (Knowles) Lowe
Photo courtesy of Janis Saunders
Home Guard in Nassau, Bahamas (when the Duke of Windsor was Governor)
Kneeling L – R: John Estwick ‘Ekkie’ Lowe (1913-1995), Freeman Alexander Smith (1917-1996), Herbert Young, Stuart Black
Photo courtesy of Lynn Thackray
1940 Nassau Rugby Club
A=Durward Randolph Knowles
E=Freddie Smith
H=John Estwick “Ekkie” Lowe (1913-1995)
I=Anton Brown
J=Roy Newbold
K=Daniel Alfred OSWALD Moseley
5 – John Estwick ‘Ekkie’ Lowe
6 – Durward Randolph Knowles ?
8 – James HOMER Lowe
19 – Duke of Windsor
Front L-R:unknown , Roy Ramsey, Roy Newbold, John Cook, Hugh Cancino, John Estwick ‘Ekkie’ Lowe, Gene Munro
Middle L-R: unknown, Larry Lane Forsythe
Back L-R: unknown, Freeman A Smith, Basil McKinney, John Maura, Leonard Roberts, Freddie Smith Photo courtesy of Lynn Thackray
U = Ekkie Lowe (seated, middle holding the ball)
Source: The Miami Herald – December 1941
L to R – John Estwick Lowe, Durward Randolph Knowles, and ???
Photo courtesy of David Weech
Nassau Yacht Club – circa 1940’s
#17 – John Estwick ‘Ekkie’ Lowe
Photo courtesy of David Weech

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