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My gggrandmother was Mary Lowry she married James Kerwick and migrated to Australia. Any info would be welcomed Suzanne Hartley.
Lavery, also spelled Lowry, Lowrie, Lory, and Lowery, is an Irish surname derived from the Gaelic Ó Labhradha, meaning the "descendants of Labhradha". If Gaelic by which it is taken to be Scottish or Irish, the surname is said to derive from the ancient pre 10th century personal name 'Labhradha', meaning 'spokesman, and as such was originally given to the chief of the clan, the one chosen to speak on behalf of the community.
The vast majority of Lowry's (Lowery, Lowrey) in the United States are of Scottish descent. These settlers came either directly from Scotland or from Ulster (Northern Ireland). The Scottish people from Ulster are often referred to as "Scot-Irish". Most of the earliest settlers did NOT come from Scotland. They came from Ulster.