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
Edward Crowe He retired from the Civil Service in 1937, and was President of the Royal Society of Arts between 1941 and 1943. He died in Cairo, on 8 March 1960, aged 82, whilst visiting his son, Sir Colin Crowe, who was British Chargé d'Affaires in Egypt at the time of his father’s death. Edward Crowe Sir Edward Thomas Frederick Crowe KCMG (1877-1960), was a senior British civil servant and diplomat. Born on the Greek island of Zakynthos on 20 August 1877, Edward Crowe was educated at Bedford School. In 1897 he joined the Diplomatic Service and was appointed as a student