Talk:Charles Rathbone Low

Low family

It was a military background. Some information is in https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082347174&view=1up&seq=438 .

A newspaper extract gives "LOW.—During April, in Canada, Nathaniel Low, Esq., of Lowville, late of H.M. 40th Regiment, served at Waterloo, and at the occupation of Paris by the Allies, grandson of the late Right Hon. Richard Hamilton, Viscount Boyne, and uncle of Hamilton Lowe, Esq., of H.M. Customs, in this city." That is an obit in The Sydney Morning Herald during 1875. So that should be the brother of John Handcock Low, "Colonel N. Low" of the Army. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:21, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

More on the Canadian branch, from [1]:

Nathaniel Edward Low. O.P.L.S., who died at Sarnia, Ontario, on Sep tember 25, in his eighty-second year, came with his father, the late Colonel N. Low, of the 40th Regl. I nient, to Nanticoke, Haldimand, Ont., in 182, where he followed his profes sion for many years. He moved to Wiarton about 1880. His wife (a daughter ot Lt.-Col. Pritchard of the 56th Regiment, died in IS 85. Deceased was a descendant of an Irish military family, hia father having been at Waterloo. His mother was the daughter of Major Abbott, 60th, Regiment, and governor of Launcea-ton and Hobart, Tasmania. His grandfather. Captain William Low of Lowville, County Galway, served in the S7th Regiment, now the Hamp shire Regiment, until his marriage with the Hon. Sohpia Hamilton, daughter of Richard, fourth Viscount Boyne. A brother. Lieut. Hamilton Low, entered the Third West Indian Regiment and died at Lagos, Africa, in 1864. Two cousins and two uncles also served in the British army and navy, in India. He leaves, besides his only daughter in Sarnia, a sister in Paris, France, one brother in Port Dover, Ont., and a half brother, Mr. A. R. Lowe, a resident of Vancouver.

Charles Matthews (talk) 09:30, 23 February 2021 (UTC)