Birth: 1826 Tasburgh, Norfolk, UK
Father: Joseph Adams c1784-1853
Mother: Sarah Sparrow 1792-1856
Marriage: 27 July 1846 Newton Flotman, Norfolk, UK
Husband: James Cowles 1827
Death: 28 July 1905 33 Crossness, Belvedere, Erith, Dartford, Kent, UK
Anna (Annie) Elizabeth (Eliza) Cowles 1852-1863
Clara Elizabeth Cowles [Heavers] 1860-a1901
Emily Jane Cowles [Davis] 1863-a1901
Frederick Cowles 1866-b1871
James George Cowles 1867-1867
Edward Thomas Cowles c1869-a1913
Christening of Emily Adams in the IGI on 15 December 1826 in Tasburgh, Norfolk, parents Joseph Adams and Sarah.
On a copy made on 19 January 2006 of the entry of marriage number 21 1846 in Newton Flotman, Norfolk, Emily Adams aged 20, a spinster of Newton Flotman, employed as a dressmaker and whose father was Joseph employed as a labourer, married James Cowles at the parish church on 27 July 1846. She signed her own name. It was witnessed by Jeremiah Matins and Eliza Adams (I assume her sister). There is an entry in the Register of Marriages for Emily Adams and James Cowles in July-September 1846 in Henstead (xiii 279).
In the 1851 census as Emily Cowell (sic) 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 and his family - I guess that he was a son of John Adams who was born in Hempnall in 1788 and had other children born in Shotesham.
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.
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, unmarried and employed as a boiler maker), a female visitor Elizabeth Blunt (aged 22, born in Cambridge, unmarried and employed as a nurse), a male visitor Harry Horbley (aged 50, born in Deptford, unmarried, and unemployed), and a sister named Edward Horbley (aged 60 born in Greenwich, unmarried, 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.
In the 1891 Wales census as Emily Cowler (sic- Cowles on the original) aged 63, born in Towrbury (sic), Norfolk, a widow living on her own means 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), 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) at Kashgar Road, Plumstead.
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.
The first child was born in Shotesham, Norfolk, the second two children were born in Monks Kirby, Warwick, (10 miles NE of Coventry and the same NW of Rugby) but Frederick was born in Greenwich so must have lived in Shotesham till between 1853 and 1860, Monks Kirby from before 1860 to between 1863 and 1866, and then Greenwich, moving to South Wales when her husband died, and finally back to Kent.
Shotesham, Tasbugh and Newton Flotman are all within three miles of each other and are 8 miles south of Norwich.
Emily Cowles was my great grandmother.
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