Madden, Eileen. Interview about the Fowler House in Brigus.

• Main Author: Webb, Megan
• Other Authors: Madden, Eileen
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Migration/settlement; Houses; Madden; Eileen; Madden (nee Fowler); Ignatia; Fowler; Michael; Frances; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/8913

Megan Webb interviews Eileen Madden aboout her familial relation to a past resident of the Fowler House in Brigus, her mother, Ignatia Fowler. She discusses the family tree and knowledge of the house. 0:00 Start of recording; 0:11 Hello; 1:08 Her connection to the Fowler house through her mother; 3:00 Grandparents moved to Brigus from Cupids; 3:19 Maternal grandparents Frances (nee Corbett) Fowler and Michael Fowler; 4:00 Mother born in 1921; 5:25 Mother Ignatia Fowler, father Lewis Madden; 5:48 Eileen has 5 siblings; 7:20 Sadie and Richard Fowler bought the house for $500 some time after Ignatia left; 8:50 Saw the house at some point when Rich and Sadie lived there ~1970; 9:53 How the house looked when she visited; 14:16 After Rich and Sadie, other Fowler’s bought the house that lived in the United States; 15:20 About Ignatia’s parents Frances and Michael; 15:55 Ignatia had 5 siblings, 6 kids in total; 17:45 Mother’s memories about chores they had to do as kids; 20:00 Aunt Pauline had gone back to Fowler house to stay with Frances; 20:50 Pictures of Frances and Michael Fowler, and the house over the years; 22:25 Her grandfather, Michael, used to work on his fishing nets in the twine loft; 24:17 Ignatia recalled her father mending nets in that section of the house; 27:18 Tom Fowler interviewed Ignatia twice and created a family tree document; 33:10 Sold several times after grandparents sold it; 39:00 Concluding and setting up in-person meeting; 41:36 End of recording.