lived at EMLY TIPPERARY and had a house there in 1850.    Thomas Heffernan was a teacher.

Two of their daughters,  ELLEN HEFFERNAN,  who married Albeius Oliver Fitzgerald,  at Emly,  31st Jan. 1875, and MARY HEFFERNAN, who married in New Zealand, John Lynch, from Bantry Bay Ireland.    Both Ellen and Mary lived in the Palmerston North area of New Zealand.       One of Mary’s daughters was Julia Lynch, Sister Lawrence the well known artist. 

I would like to hear from any relatives please contact me at my email address…. mary.cowie@clear.net.nz

A Son was born Friday 14th May 1830.

I would be interested to hear from any family descendants.

Please contact me by email:    mary.cowie@clear.net.nz

Special thanks to my dearest daughter Cathy for all her time and the artistry which makes this site so appealing and interesting.

Always interested to hear from any realitive or kindly person.  Please contact me my email is:    mary.cowie@clear.net.nz

My Life on the Whanganui River by with Mary Cowie and Cathy Fitzgerald | Make Your Own Book

Annie Cowie (1858-1917) was the first European woman to live in the remote Huikumu region of New Zealand in the 1890s. Living on a large farm close to the Whanganui River, her sensitive paintings and sketches reveal vivid details of the wild riverscapes and mountains, the Maori people of the area and personal portraits of the family home she loved so much.

The Whanganui River, with its origins high on of the mountains of the Tongariro plateau (Mt Ruapehu was frequently painted by Annie Cowie) is the longest navigable river in New Zealand at 234 km. It was the home of several Maori tribes and later settled for a time by Europeans. Of interest is that early settlers tried to farm this area but harsh conditions and poor soil fertility meant that many later abandoned their farms. Today, the surrounding area of the Whanganui area is much as it was in Annie Cowie’s day.

‘Ruapehu is the mountain,
Whanganui is the river,
Te Atihau nui a papa rangi
are the people’

The lowland forests of the area consist mainly of kamahi, tawa, hinau and pigeonwood trees… mosses, creepers and tree ferns live along the banks of the Whanganui River and in Annie Cowie’s paintings.

Here’s a poem that suits my favourite painting from Annie

GOD’S GARDEN

by Dorothy Frances Gurney

The Lord God planted a garden in the first white days of the world, and he set there an angel warden in a garment of Light enfurled, and I dream that these garden closes with their shade and sunflecked sod, and their lillies and bowers of roses were laid by the hand of God.

So near to the peace of Heaven the hawk might nest with the wren. For there in the cool of the even God walked with the first of men.

The Kiss of the Sun for Pardon
the Song of the Birds for Mirth,
one is nearer God’s heart in a garden
than anywhere else on earth.

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I would love to hear from any descendants please email

me at     mary.cowie@clear.net.nz

who married THOMAS WORSLEY in 1919 in Chorlton Lancashire.   Known to have one son THOMAS WORSLEY living in the 1940′s.   Grandmother Alice Annie Cowie, remarried,  (Mrs William Percy Hutchfield),  lived at 83 Haworth Road, Gorton Manchester.

I would love to hear from any relative so please send me an email to     mary.cowie@clear.net.nz

They were my great grandparents.

Please send me an email:  mary.cowie@clear.net.nz

Stepmother Elsie.   There were four brothers , one of which was Harry.

Members of the Priest or Morris Families are long lost Cousins, who were living in the Auckland area in the 1960′s. Remember visiting you with Elsie.

I would love to get an email and reconnect please

email me at:      mary.cowie@clear.net.nz

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