Ellen Crowe Ellen Crowe Ellen Crowe (c.1847 – 24 January 1930) was a New Zealand homemaker and community leader. She was born in Ballindooley, County Galway, Ireland on c.1847. She was the daughter of Bridget Cody and John Silke of Ballindooley, parish of Castlegar, County Galway, about 1847. When about 12 or 13, she was promised in marriage to John Crowe but by the time Ellen was 18 or 19, he had emigrated to New Zealand. Ned Crowe, John's brother, visited the family to tell them that John would send for Ellen. Silke was one of several hundred single women who received
Crowe River Crow Bridge Conservation Area, and reaches its mouth at Crowe Bay on the Trent River, just upstream of the Trent–Severn Waterway Crowe Bay lock and dam. The Trent River flows to the Bay of Quinte on Lake Ontario at Trenton. The northern part of the watershed is sparsely inhabited Canadian Shield terrain. At Marmora, the watershed enters Paleozoic limestone-plain country, with unusual outcroppings of Canadian Shield through the limestone at Allan Mills and just above Crowe Bridge. The river drains an area of about . At one time, the river was used to transport logs down to sawmills at Marmora.