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Hi Sandy:  Thank you for the message.  I was hesitant in putting it on the site and I hope the moderator will remove it for me.  Thanks again. Susan

Hello Judith:  Your message was fascinating and I would like to correspond with you as I have a bit of information that I would like to share with you.  I was wondering if we could message privately, as this format isn't large enough at times.    hope to hear from you soon.  Regards, Susan

Hi Sandy:  It looks like I missed one of your messages; you asked about Jessie's death and her parents.  This is what I have found:  Jessie died on Salt Spring Island, B.C.  23 Feb 1932, her parent's were Henry born 1825 or 26 in Sleaford, Derbyshire, no death date for him.  His parents were Thomas Lowe, b: 28 Sep 1783 d: 12 Nov 1854 Sleaford and his mother Mary Hannah b: 1793, Pornthorn.  I have Henry's gg grandparents as Francis Lowe 1745 and Ann Leek, no details.  Jessie's mother: Sarah Strapps, b: 1832, Sleaford, no death date for her or location and no parents for Sarah.  My thoughts were if John and Jessie were cousins or he was, perhaps, an uncle.  If he immigrated to Canada and amassed a huge track of prime farmland and encouraged Jessie and James Cunningham to immigrate and settle in the same region as well.  Thanks for your assistance and thoughts to date.  Regards, Susan

Hi All Respondents:  Thank you all so much for the information you have discovered and kindly posted for me.  I am so grateful and amazed at what you have found.  The reason I am searching down this path is that during my search for my husband's family, I found their Western Land Grant for farmland in Manitoba, Canada.  I took the legal description and converted it to survey maps and discovered that it was in the very fertile Red River Valley in a region known as "Lowe Farm".  My husband's grandmother's maiden name was "Lowe".  The thought was that perhaps John Lowe who developed this massive farm could possibly be related to Jessie Thomasine Lowe and when she decided to immigrate to Canada, she, naturally, gravitated to a relative who, in turn, granted her this prime section of farm land.  John Lowe was employed as a Government Agent at one time in his life, I haven't checked on the dates which could correspond to the Land Grant and his position at the time.  The co-incidence of her name and his being the same has been too great to pass up but I haven't made the family connection yet.  Thanks to everyone so far.  Susan