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- The Evening Standard (London), December 5, 1861, reported "The Bishop of Chester has instituted the Rev. William Lowe, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, to the vicarage of Bunbury, Cheshire."
The Cheshire Marriage Licence Bonds And Allegations 1606-1905 records the marriage to Annie Moseley on the April 26, 1862. The Liverpool Mercury (1 May, 1862, p. 3) state: "LOWE-MOSELEY-April 29, at the parish church, Tilston, by the Rev. H. E. Massie, assisted by the Rev. E. Williams, the Rev. William Lowe, vicar of Bunbury, to Annie, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Moseley, Kelsall."
From The Monuments at Bunbury Church, Cheshire by J. Paul Rylands, F.S.A., and F. C. Beazley, F.S.A.
A brass, next going eastwards, the inscription in capital letters:
In loving memory | of | William Lowe, M.A. | Vicar of Bunbury | for 32 years. | Born | November 12th 1825 | Died | September II th 1905. | "In Thy Presence | is the fulness of joy." |
The Rev. William Lowe was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. He was son of Robert Lowe, who was a younger son of George Lowe, Assay Master of the Chester Goldsmiths' Company, by Mary, his wife, daughter of Robert Cawley of Swanleigh in the parish of Acton. (See Nos. 95 and 96.) Mr. Lowe printed an account of Bunbury Church, of which a new edition, with six good illustrations, has lately been issued.
95. A railed altar-tomb, near the last, two brass plates:
(i) SACRED | To the Memory of | MARY CAWLEY LOWE | Who Died 7th February 1796 | aged 8 Months | EDWARD LOWE | Died 6 Aug. 1808 Aged 2 Months | MARY LOWE | Died 22 June 1819 | Aged 58 years. || (2) ELIZTH LOWE | Died 5 May 1827 Aged 33 Years | GEORGE LOWE | ASSAY MASTER OF CHESTER | Died 28 December 1841 | AGED 73 YEARS. |
96. Within the same rails, another tomb : On one side, in capital letters : George Lowe into rest November 24, 1876 | aged 83 years entered [a text follows]. On the other side, in gothic letters: Beneath rest the mortal remains of | George Cliff Lowe | born October 5th 1821 and died at Newhaven, U.S.A., August 17th- 1872. |
The family of Lowe came from Guilden Sutton, in the registers of which parish we find entries relating to them from 1619 to the beginning of the nineteenth century ; other members of this family are recorded in the registers of Bruera. The Lowes have, for a long period, been associated with the Chester Goldsmiths' Company, and during a century past several of them have held the office of Assay Master to that company.
William Lowe, of Guilden Sutton, born 1710, was the father of George Lowe, of Saighton (1738- 1814), whose son, George Lowe, of Chester (1768- 1841), was Assay Master, and was buried at Bunbury (No. 95). He had, with other issue, three sons, George, Robert, and John. George (1793- 1876) was a goldsmith at Gloucester, and subsequently went to live at Bunbury ; he repaired the Ridley Chapel, and, in 1873, gave a new clock to the church in memory of his son George Cliff Lowe (1821-1872), who died in America (No. 96). The Assay Master's second son, Robert (1796-1866), was a goldsmith at Preston, and was the father of the vicar of Bunbury (No. 60). The third son, John Lowe of Chester (1804-1864), prime warden of the Goldsmiths' Company, and sheriff of Chester in 1841, was the father of a family of eleven children, among whom were John Foulkes Lowe, prime warden of the Goldsmiths' Company and sheriff of Chester in 1897; James Foulkes Lowe, B.A., Trinity College, Dublin, who was Assay Master at Chester for forty-five years; George Bennet Lowe, of Chester, goldsmith ; and William Foulkes Lowe, of Chester, the present Assay Master, who is also public analyst, etc., for the city of Chester and the counties of Anglesey, Carnarvon, Denbigh, and Flint. We are indebted to Mr. Lowe and to his nephew, Mr. Hugh Cawley Lowe, son of James Foulkes Lowe named above, who is also engaged in the Assay office, for many particulars regarding their family.
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