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
Eyre Evans Crowe Crowe A.R.A. (1824–1910), Sir Joseph Archer Crowe (1825–1896), and George Crowe (1840–1889), husband of the actress Kate Bateman. Eyre Evans Crowe Eyre Evans Crowe (1799 – February 25, 1868) was an English journalist and historian. The son of an Army officer of Anglo-Irish ancestry, Crowe was born in Southampton and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In the 1820s he turned to writing novels: V"ittoria Colonna, To-Day in Ireland" (1825), "The English in Italy" (1825), (1828), "Yesterday in Ireland" (1829), and "The English at Home" (1830). His work appeared as well in "Blackwood's Magazine". He commenced his work as a writer