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Captain Richard Lowerison
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There is some damage to the covers of the logbook and diary and the pages of the logbook are slightly fragile. The folded certificates required flattening and are in some cases fragile with the vellum certificate needing conservation.
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Biographical history
Captain Richard Lowerison was born in Aulac, Westmorland County on April 22, 1822. At age 35 on December 29, 1857, he married Mary Keillor, daughter of Thomas Coates Keillor (1788-?) and Mary Jones (1799-?). Richard and Mary had 4 children between 1859 and 1868: Alice Bertha Lowerison, Elmore Harold Lowerison (MD), Mabel Mary Aravessa (Horace Ellsworth Fawcett), and Ethel Ellen Lowerison. Census and ship records confirm that the Captain worked as a Master Mariner and ship owner from 1839 to some time between the last ship record (1873) and the first census report where his occupation is listed as retired (1881). Throughout his time as a Master Mariner, he owned shares in many locally built ships, and frequently did business with close friend and notable Dorchester, New Brunswick ship builder, Gideon Palmer. He moved to Amherst in 1872 and spent several years in retirement then took up the position of Registrar or Probate in Amherst, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia in approximately 1892. Captain Lowerison died January 29, 1904 in Cumberland County.
Custodial history
These records came to the Trust from Maurice (Jake) Fisher who had inherited these items from his father, Charles Maurice Parkin (C.M.P.) Fisher, whose mother Mabel Mary Aravessa Lowerison was the daughter of Capt. Lowerison and Mary Keillor. The first donation came from Maurice Fisher’s daughter, Susan Fisher, in 2012 after her father’s death in 2011. The second accrual originally came to the Trust as a long-term loan in 2006 from Maurice Fisher for a permanent exhibit (which also included artefacts) and was changed to a donation by his children Susan and Ian Fisher in 2020.
Scope and content
Fonds reflects Captain Richard Lowerison’s career as a Master Mariner, including his education, certificates, 1860-1862 voyage from Virginia to Jamaica on the Prince of Wales, and business interactions with Gideon Palmer of Dorchester, New Brunswick. These records consist of a financial diary, voyage logbook, victualling bill, seamanship textbook, Masters certificates, access pass, and a pocket card.
Physical condition
There is some damage to the covers of the logbook and diary and the pages of the logbook are slightly fragile. The folded certificates required flattening and are in some cases fragile with the vellum certificate needing conservation.
Immediate source of acquisition
Maurice (Jake) Fisher who had inherited these items from his father, Charles Maurice Parkin (C.M.P.) Fisher, whose mother Mabel Mary Aravessa Lowerison was the daughter of Capt. Lowerison and Mary Keillor.
Arrangement
Fonds was described and arranged in chronological order by Annika Williams in 2020.
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Sackville, New Brunswick
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None
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No further accruals are expected.
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Final
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Full
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
August 3, 2022
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Sources
Ancestry.ca
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