Celeste Cecilia (Hayman) Lowe (1854 - 1903)

Born 18 Dec 1854 in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, Bahamas

Wife of Gideon S. Lowe — married 22 Jan 1873 in Key West, Monroe County, Florida, USA

Descendants

Died 19 Jul 1903 at age 48 in Key West, Monroe County, Florida, USA

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Celeste (Hayman) Lowe is buried in Key West Cemetery.

Celeste (Hayman) Lowe is part of a Bahamian family.

Biography

Celeste was probably born 18 December 1854 in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco.^[1] She was the daughter of Jacob Hayman and Patience Saunders.

She married Gideon S. Lowe on 22 January 1873 at St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Key West in a ceremony performed by J. B. Allard, Pastor of St. Mary’s.^[2]

Celeste died 19 July 1903 in Key West,^[3] and she is buried in the Pitcher Plot in the City Cemetery.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Bahamas Registrar General's Office, Births, 1854–1855, Green Turtle Cay Division of the District of Abaco, p. 126, no. 7, female child of Jacob Hayman and Patience Griffin, 18 December 1854; digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-22639-49682-22?cc=1922411 : accessed February 2015). Although she is not named in this birth record, the balance of evidence suggests that this child was indeed Celeste, though there is contradictory evidence. Her baptismal record states that she was born 28 November 1853; see, Parish Register of St. Mary’s Star of the Sea, Key West, Baptisms, 1851–1882, photocopy at the Monroe County Public Library, Key West, Florida. Her baptismal record identifies her parents as Jacob Hayman and Patience. However, this record was created when she was sixteen years old. She was said to be three years and six months when her family arrived in New York in July 1858, which is consistent with a birth in December 1854; see Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820–1897, microfilm publication M237 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, [date?]), roll 186, Schooner Maxson Rogers, 26 July 1858, line 5, Celestia Hayman; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://interactive.ancestry.com/7488/NYM237_186-0115/3479734?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dnypl%26h%3d3479734%26ti%3d0%26indiv%3dtry%26gss%3dpt%26ssrc%3dpt_t37835005_p19162058909_kpidz0q3d19162058909z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&ssrc=pt_t37835005_p19162058909_kpidz0q3d19162058909z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&backlabel=ReturnRecord : accessed February 2015). The census taker recorded Celeste's birth date as December 1856 in the 1900 census. The year is off, but not as badly as the baptismal record would make it, and the months match. See, 1900 U.S. census, Monroe County, Florida, population schedule, Key West, Northern part of Ward 3, enumeration district 100, stamped page 44A, sheet 3, dwelling 49, family 52, Celeste Lowe household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://interactive.ancestry.com/7602/004120049_00419/34147822?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3d1900usfedcen%26h%3d34147822%26ti%3d0%26indiv%3dtry%26gss%3dpt%26ssrc%3dpt_t37835005_p19162058909_kpidz0q3d19162058909z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&ssrc=pt_t37835005_p19162058909_kpidz0q3d19162058909z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&backlabel=ReturnRecord : accessed February 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 174.
2. ↑ Monroe County Marriage Licenses A1: 33, Gideon Lowe and Celeste Hayman, 22 January 1873; digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9KN-YW3?mode=g&i=261&cat=341167 : accessed January 2016).
3. ↑ Key West Health Department, Key West Deaths, October 1880–October 1913, 1903 [#19], FHL microfilm no. 2110369. The age at death implies a birth date of 1847, which is a close match to the 1885 census entry.
4. ↑ Key West Cemetery Records, Pitcher Plot, #263, Fourth Avenue near Magnolia; Manuscripts Collection, Key West Public Library. Leonard H. Smith, Jr., The Records of the Key West Cemetery, Key West, Florida, 1888–1905 (Clearwater, FL: Owl Books, 1984), 108.