Gainor P. (Lowry) Murray (1923 - abt. 2005)

Born 1923 in New York City, New York, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Edward Mitchell Murray — married 6 Sep 1947 in North Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died about 19 May 2005 at about age 82 in New York, United States

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Biography

Gainor was the daughter of Robert Lowry from Pennsylvania and Annie Gidley from Massachusetts.

The family was found in the 1930 US Census in Queens, New York.^[1] The household was enumerated as follows:

• Robert P .Lowry, Head, age 49, born in Pennsylvania
• Annie G. Lowry, Wife, age 49, born in Massachusetts
• Gainor Lowry, Daughter, age 7, born in New York
• Emma M. Jay, Boarder, age 28, born in New York

The family was found in the 1940 Census in Queens, New York.^[2]The household was enumerated as follows:

• Robert R. Lowry, Head, age 59, born in Pennsylvania
• Ann G. Lowry, Wife, age 59, born in Massachusetts
• Gainor Lowry, Daughter, age 17, born in New York

In 1940, Gainor graduated from Westtown High School, West Chester, Pennsylvania (a private Quaker boarding school).^[3] In 1944, she graduated from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.^[4]

She married Edward Mitchell Murray in 1947 at Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

Children

1. Margaret, born 1949; married Robert E. Dohn^[5]
2. Robert, married Lucy Richardson

Death

Gainor passed away on May 19, 2005. At the time of her death she was living at Crosslands in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4PY-BRL : accessed 24 December 2018), Gainor Lowry in household of Robert P Lowry, Queens (Districts 0751-1000), Queens, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 912, sheet 10A, line 8, family 74, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1594; FHL microfilm 2,341,329.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQYN-K83 : 15 March 2018), Gainor Lowry in household of Robert R Lowry, Assembly District 4, Queens, New York City, Queens, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 41-766, sheet 5B, line 80, family 40, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2735.
3. ↑ “The Amicus” Yearbook, Class of 1940, Westtown High School, West Chester, Pennsylvania (a private Quaker boarding school) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westtown_School
4. ↑ Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, “ Nike" Yearbook, Class of 1944, page 60
5. ↑ E-mail received from Margaret Murray Dohn, daughter of Gainor P. Lowry.
6. ↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVTH-R995 : accessed 27 September 2020), Edward Mitchell Murray in entry for Gainor Lowry Murray, New York, United States, 26 May 2005; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Port Washington News, born-digital text.

• "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVTH-R99P : accessed 17 September 2021), Gainor Lowry Murray, New York, United States, 26 May 2005; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Port Washington News, born-digital text.

• E-mail received from Margaret Murray Dohn, daughter of Gainor P. Lowry.

• “The Amicus” Yearbook, Class of 1940, Westtown High School, West Chester, Pennsylvania (a private Quaker boarding school) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westtown_School

• Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, “ Nike" Yearbook, Class of 1944, page 60