FIJI MCGOWANS
– ANCESTORS
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TO THEIR STORIES.
Levuka, Fiji's original capital as the McGowan's knew it.
When
Geraldine Sweeny married William McGowan she brought with her an amazing family
history. For a start she was just one of
sixteen children born to their Sussex parents Anna and Alfred Sweeny.
Anna’s Mother
and Father were Francis and Mary
Keates; Francis was a business
man who not only ran a china ware shop and owned a fishing trawler but was also
a councillor on the Worthing Town Council. A very generous father, when the young
couple married he set them up in a business of their own.
Alfred’s
Mother was a widow and made a living as a seamstress.
Life should
have been a very happy one for Anna and Alfred, and it was… for a short while….
Anna Sweeny’s
story is told in three parts….
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| Levuka, Fiji's original capital as the McGowan's knew it. |
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By now you’ve
read about Anna Sweeny’s long and ultimately sad life…
Anna has seen
her family dispersed to the far corners of the world; has been humiliated by a
selfish husband and has ended her days in a London poor house.
Now it is
time to read the life story of her daughter, your ancestor, Geraldine McGowan,
told here in five parts.
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| Geraldine in her 70's. |
PT 1 :
PT2:
PT 3. :
PT 4. :
PT 5. :
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And finally,
because this little ship had a great deal to do with its sometime skipper,
Alfred McGowan and with his eventual wife, Geraldine Sweeny… a side story about
the Marie Louise.
A sea going
vessel built in Tasmania, later wrecked and resurrected in Levuka… told in three parts.
I hope you
enjoy reading these true tales… they are of course just one side of your
McGowan story. Now you must seek, and
detail your Tongan and Fijian family history… and I can barely wait to read it!
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Robyn
Mortimer 16 Jul. 2016
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