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Captain Lowry Newcastle
« on: Sunday 16 January 11 13:11 GMT (UK) »
I'm researching my grandfather's diaries and have got to April 1912 when he attended the Royal County Down Golf Club AGM  at Newcastle on 27 April 1912. He mentions the following people: Captain Lowry who  was on his table, Bob Wallace who sang the 'South Down Militia' and an E Young. Any Down experts out there who can add any detail to these names?

Jerry Murland
Co.Down: Murland
Sussex: Goode, Watts, Poole
Northamptonshire: Murland
East Yorkshire: Royle

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Re: Captain Lowry Newcastle
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 16 January 11 13:15 GMT (UK) »
The 1911 census is online (free) and you could search for them-
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search

Also have a look at 1910 directory (doesn't include Belfast)-
http://www.libraryireland.com/UlsterDirectory1910/Contents.php

and 1913 telephone directory-
http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/1913PhoneDirectory.htm

Another online resource is 1912 Ulster Covenant details on www.proni.gov.uk
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Re: Captain Lowry Newcastle
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 16 January 11 13:20 GMT (UK) »
Added- Ros Davies' website has lots of Co. Down information including mention of a house called "Wilmar" "a house in Newcastle; residence of Capt. W. Lowery in 1910" who seems to have been a retired sea captain.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/PLACENAMES/UVWYZ.htm
See this page for details of a W.H.K. Lowry who may be same man-
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/SURNAMES/L/LoweryLowry.htm
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Re: Captain Lowry Newcastle
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 16 January 11 13:43 GMT (UK) »
I've got a feeling Captain Lowry may be  Archibald Lowry, a founder of the Royal County Down Golf Club that hosts the British Senior Golf Championships, and a cousin of Sir Gerald Lowry who was a Harley Street physician. Sir Gerald was the first British officer to be wounded during WWI and was blinded but continued to practice medicine, sail at Crewe and ski at St. Moritz. But can't get any further leads.

Bob Wallace might be Col. Robert Hugh Wallace , C.B., of Myra
Castle, CO. Down.

Jerry
Co.Down: Murland
Sussex: Goode, Watts, Poole
Northamptonshire: Murland
East Yorkshire: Royle


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Re: Captain Lowry Newcastle
« Reply #4 on: Friday 11 October 13 20:35 BST (UK) »
Hi, long time since this thread began, just came across it during a search, i have a photo of a capt Lowry, circa 1914, photo shows a group of Ulster Volunteers, preparing to march to the train station in Newcastle to enlist in Downpatrick.