William Curry Harllee’s 1935 Kinfolks trilogy has been a treasured resource for generations. In Volume II, Harllee traces the Curry and Kemp families throughout the Bahamas and Key West. Marriages weave in other Bahamian surnames including Lowe, Russell, Saunders, Sawyer and Thompson to name a few. In 1998 with permission
In 1903 at Green Turtle Cay’s historic New Plymouth settlement, my paternal grandmother Bessie Caroline Curry was born. With four older siblings, the family for farmer Pa Wes Curry and Ma Lilla Carleton Curry would now be complete. Twenty-one year old Bessie fell in love and married mariner Howard Lowe,
Dad loved to reminisce of his boyhood days on Green Turtle Cay. He longed for any opportunity to return. In the early 1990s, my wife and I discovered that Disney’s Premier Cruiselines offered an itinerary that cruised the Abaco islands. Their Big Red Boat made stops to Green Turtle Cay,
