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Lowden (family)
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Robert Samuel Lowden (1812-1869) and Elizabeth ("Eliza") Olding (1813-1903) were married 1838 in Pictou County, N.S. They lived in Merigomish, where Lowden was involved in industrial and prospecting ventures such as iron, gold and oil, in Nictaux and Isaacs Harbour, N.S. and Parsons Pond, Nfld. Robert Lowden's brother, Charles Thomas Lowden (1815-1891), and the latter's family moved to Cattarangus, New York.