Florence Mary McDowell School Teacher who wrote about her life as a child later in life in two books
Florence Mary McDowell was born in 1888 to William Lenox Dugan, originally from Castlerock, County Londonderry, and Mary Jane (née Kidley). At age five, her family moved from Derry to Doagh, where her father took up farming. Her mother, one of the daughters of the owner of Cogry Mill, passed away two years after their move, leaving Florence and her four siblings in the care of their Aunt Laetitia