Fonds MC-32 - Captain Richard Lowerison

Titre propre

Captain Richard Lowerison

Dénomination générale des documents

  • Document textuel

Titre parallèle

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Niveau de description

Fonds

Cote

MC-32

Mention d'édition

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Mention d'échelle (cartographique)

Mention de projection (cartographique)

Mention des coordonnées (cartographiques)

Mention d'échelle (architecturale)

Juridiction responsable et dénomination (philatélique)

Date(s)

  • 1809, 1860-1865, 1868-1875 (Production)
    Producteur
    Richard Lowerison
    Lieu
    Sackville

Description matérielle

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.

Titre propre de la collection

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Mention de responsabilité relative à la collection

Numérotation à l'intérieur de la collection

Note sur la collection

Nom du producteur

(1809-1875)

Notice biographique

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.

Historique de la conservation

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.

Portée et contenu

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.

État de conservation

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.

Source immédiate d'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.

Classement

Fonds was described and arranged in chronological order by Annika Williams in 2020.

Langue des documents

  • anglais

Écriture des documents

Localisation des originaux

Sackville, New Brunswick

Disponibilité d'autres formats

Restrictions d'accès

None

Délais d'utilisation, de reproduction et de publication

Instruments de recherche

Instrument de recherche téléversé

Éléments associés

Éléments associés

Accroissements

No further accruals are expected.

Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)

Numéro normalisé

Mots-clés - Sujets

Mots-clés - Noms

Mots-clés - Genre

Identifiant de la description du document

MC-32

Identifiant du service d'archives

Tantramar Heritage Trust

Règles ou conventions

Title is based on the provenance of the records.

Statut

Finale

Niveau de détail

Complet

Dates de production, de révision et de suppression

August 3, 2022

Langue de la description

  • anglais

Langage d'écriture de la description

Sources

Ancestry.ca
The White Fence Newsletter

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