Birth: 1826 Tasburgh, Norfolk, UK
Father: Joseph Adams c1784-1853
Mother: Sarah Sparrow 1788-1856
Christening: 10 December 1826 Tasburgh, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: 27 July 1846 Newton Flotman, Norfolk, UK
Husband: James Cowles 1827-1881/91
Death: 28 July 1905 33 Crossness, Belvedere, Erith, Dartford, Kent, UK
Anna (Annie) Elizabeth (Eliza) Cowles 1852-1863
Clara Elizabeth Cowles [Heavers] 1860-1930
Emily Jane Cowles [Davis] 1863-1942
Frederick Cowles 1866-b1871
James George Cowles 1867-1867
Edward Thomas Cowles 1868-1935
Christening of Emily Adams in the IGI on 15 December 1826 in Tasburgh, Norfolk, parents Joseph Adams and Sarah.
There are three entries in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for the baptism of Emily Adams in Tasburgh, Norfolk, parents Joseph and Sarah Adams, two on 15 December 1826 and one on 10 December 1826
Enty in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915 for Emily Adams baptised on 10 December 1826, parents Joseph and Sarah Adams. "Page 27 Baptisms folemnized in the Parish of Tasburgh in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1826 [...] Decr 10 No. 214 Emily daughter of Joseph, husbandman, and Sarah Adams of Tasburgh". Although some other references give 15 the original looks much more like 10 to me.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for Emily Adams baptised on 10 December 1826, parents Joseph and Sarah Adams. "Page [blank] Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Tasburgh in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1826 [...] Dec 10 No. [blank] Emily daughter of Joseph, husbandman, and Sarah Adams of Tasburgh". The 10 is not so clear in this entry and could be interpreted as 15.
In the 1841 census as Emily Adams aged 14, born in Norfolk, employed as an agricultural labourer, and living with Joseph and Sarah (parents?), and Thomas (brother?), at Back Street, Newton Flotman, Norfolk
Marriage of Emily Adams and James Cowles in FreeBMD in July-September 1846 in Henstead (13 279).
Marriage of Emily Adams aged 20, father Joseph Adams, and James Cowles in the IGI on 27 July 1846 in Newton-Flotman, Norfolk. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940for Emily Adams aged 20, father Joseph Adams, and James Cowles on 27 July 1846 in Newton Flotman. "Page 11 1846 Marriage solemnized in the Parish Church in the Parish of Newton Flotman in the County of Norfolk No. 21 July 27th James Cowles of full age, a Bachelor and Labourer of Shotesham, father James Cowles, a Labourer, and Emily Adams aged 20, a Spinster and Drefsmaker of Newton Flotman, father Joseph Adams, a Labourer. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England [...] in the Presence of by Jeremiah Martins and Eliza Adams". (I assume her sister and who made her mark)."
In the 1851 census as Emily Cowell (sic - on the original) aged 24, born in Tasburgh, Norfolk, and living with her husband (James) at The Street, Shotesham All Saints, Norfolk. Note that living next door were Amos Adams her cousin, and his family.
Her name is given as Emily Cowles formerly Adams on Clara's Birth Certificate for 20 August 1860 at Stretton under Fosse. She was the informant on 3 September 1860 in the Lutterworth District.
In the 1861 census as Emily Cowles aged 34, born in Tasburgh, Norfolk, and living with her husband (James), and two daughters (Annie and Clara) at Keepers Lodge, Monks Kirby, Stretton under Fosse, Warwickshire.
Her daughter was baptised in Monks Kirby in 1863, and her son was baptised in Greenwich in 1866 when they were living at 7 Reform Place.
In the 1871 census as Emily Cowles aged 40, born in Tarbury (sic), Norfolk, and living with her husband (James), two daughters (Clara and Jane), son (Edward) and a border (Anna Grant aged 1 and born in Greenwich) at No 2 Ennetts Cottages, Old Woolwich, Road, Greenwich, Kent.
In the 1881 census as Emily Cowles aged 33 (sic - in index, 53 on original), born in Norfolk, and living with her husband (James), son (Edward), three male lodgers Arthur Davis (aged 22, born in Coventry, unmarried, employed as a general labourer, and future husband of Emily), Thomas Heavers (aged 23, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, unmarried, employed as a carman and future husband of Clara), William Seuisbury (aged 21, born in Deptford, single and employed as a boiler maker), a female visitor Elizabeth Blunt (aged 22, born in Cambridge, single and employed as a nurse), a male visitor Harry Horbley (aged 50, born in Deptford, single and unemployed), and a sister named Edward Horbley (aged 60 born in Greenwich, single and unemployed) at 83 Old Woolwich Road, Greenwich, Kent. Edward Horbley is probably the sister of Harry Horbley. (The name Horbley is extremely rare (only two entries in the IGI) and I suspect should be Horbey - interestingly the name Horbey seems to be concentrated in the Rugby area of Warwickshire). Note the letter H in the index does not look very much like an H on the original - however Edward ? is definately indicated to be female.
I cannot locate an entry for the death of her husband but in the 1891 census she is a widow.
In the 1891 census as Emily Cowler (sic- in the index, Cowles on the original) aged 63, born in Towrbury (sic), Norfolk, a widow living on her own means and living with her daughter (Clara Heavers), son-in-law (Thos Heavers - it states she was his mother but this is obviously incorrect - I assume the form was completed by Clara), her two grandsons (Arthur and Thos J) and two granddaughters (Clara and Florence) at 28 Station Street South, Cadoxton Juxta Barry, Glamorgan (Station Street is off Dock View Road, nearly opposite to Barry Docks Station).
In 1901 census as Emily Cowles aged 73, born in Newton, Cambridgeshire (sic - on the original), widowed and living with her son-in-law (Edwd), daughter (Emma - these must be the other way round - son and daughter-in-law, but I assume the form was completed by Emma), and three grand-children (Arthur, Edwd and Ethel) in four rooms at 27 Kashgar Road, Plumstead, London.
Death of Emily Cowles in FreeBMD in July-September 1905 aged 77 in Dartford (2a 283). On a copy made on 3 April 2006 of the Entry of Death number 369 1905 in Erith, Dartford, Kent, Emily Cowes died of cancer of the liver on 28 July 1905 aged 77 at 33 Crossness, Belvedere, Erith. The informant was E T Cowles, her son, who was in attendance and who lived at 11 Ebenezer Terrace, Lower Abbey Road, Belvedere, and it was registered on 30 July 1905.
There are seventeen entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Emily Adams
Shotesham, Tasbugh and Newton Flotman are all within three miles of each other and are 8 miles south of Norwich.
Emily Adams was my great grandmother.
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