| Photo Album  Lockport,
New York – 1914
In the above photograph, taken in Lockport, New York in 1914, my grandmother
Mary Fitzsimons Dowd (front, right) is pictured with four of her children
and one grandchild.
Mary Fitzsimmons was born in County Roscommon in the town of Elphin, near
the River Shannon, in 1848. She and husband John O’Dowd emigrated
from Ireland in 1871. They dropped the ‘O’ from O’Dowd
when they came to America.
They had six children, all of whom were born in Lockport, New York.
Pictured above, front row, left to right, are Ella Dowd Knox, her son
George Knox, and Mary Fitzsimons Dowd. In the back row are, left to right,
Alice Dowd, Nicholas Dowd (who became my father), and Mary Agnes Dowd.
– Submitted by Jerauld Dowd
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