Birth: 28 May 1879 South Mimms, Middlesex, UK
Father: William John Cowles 1853-1906
Mother: Eliza Hannah Horton 1847-1921
Christening: 26 December 1879 Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire, UK
Marriage: April-June 1901 Barnet, Hertfordshire, UK
Husband: Robert Henry Friday 1876-1945
Death: 8 February 1930 Sunnydene, Reigate Road, West Worthing, West Sussex, UK
Buried: Belle Hill Cemetery, Barnet, Hertfordshire, UK
Robert William Friday 1903-1906
Joyce Mary Friday 1915-1965
Birth of Ellen Mary Cowles in FreeBMD in July-September 1879 in Barnet (3A 171).
Christening of Ellen Mary Cowles in the IGI on 26 December 1879 in Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire, parents William John and Eliza Hannah Cowles. The same information is in in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 and another for Ellen Mary baptised in 1879 in Chipping Barnet, Hertford, parents William John and Eliza Hannah Cowles.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980 for Mary Ellen Cowles on 26 December 1879 in Barnet, Hertfordshire, parents William John and Eliza Hannah Cowles.
In the 1881 census as Ellen M. Cowles aged 1, born in South Mimms, Middlesex, and living with her parents (William J and Eliza H), and a servant (Emily Tebbutt aged 18, born in Newton, Northamptonshire and unmarried) at 28 High Street, South Mimms, Middlesex.
In the 1891 census as Ellen M Cowles aged 12, born in Barnet, Middlesex, and living with her parents (William J and Elisa H), brother (William A), sister (Jessie H), grandparents (William and Ellen Cowles), a governess (Edith Gregory aged 26, born in Nassington, Northamptonshire and single), and two servants (Elizabeth F Barton aged 18 and born in Harlton, Cambridgeshire, and Fanny C Knightly aged 18 and born in Barnet, Middx) at 65 Wood Street, Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire.
In the 1901 census as Ellen Mary Cowles aged 21, born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, single, no stated employment, and living with her parents (William John and Eliza Hannah), sister (Jessie Hannah), widowed grandmother (Ellen Cowles), grandaunt (Louisa Ann Steel), and three servants (Betsey Fernia aged 59, born in Thornton, Fife, Scotland and employed as a sick nurse, Gertrude Hart aged 22 and born in Long Meadow, Cambridgeshire, and Rose Sillett aged 19 and born in Bury, Suffolk, all single) at 65 Wood Street, Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire.
Marriage of Ellen Mary Cowles and Robert Henry Friday in FreeBMD in April-June 1901 in Barnet (3a 482).
Her son was registered in January-March 1903 in Barnet.
In the 1911 census as Ellen May (sic - on the original) Friday aged 30, born in Barnet, married for 10 years with one child who had died, and living with her husband (Robert Henry) and a servant (Amy Millewood aged 19, born in Whetstone and single) in seven rooms in High Road, Whetstone, Middlesex.Her daughter was born on 2 September 1915 in Barnet and registered in July-September 1915 in Barnet.
Three entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Ellen Mary Friday address Shop changing to Butcher's Shop in 1920, High Road, Whetstone, Finchley, Barnet from 1918 to 1920, other occupants Robert Henry Friday (husband?, and Henry Ernest and Edith Mary Beard in 1919.
In the 1921 census as Ellen Mary Friday born in Nottinghamshire (sic) in 1879, and living with Robert Henry Friday (husband?), Joyce Mary Friday (daughter?) and Grace Theresa Friday (sister-in-law?) in Chipping Barnet, Barnet, Middlesex.
Four entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Ellen Mary Friday address Butcher's Shop, High Road changing to 5 The Broadway in 1927, Whetstone N20, Finchley, Barnet from 1921 to 1927, other occupants Robert Henry Friday (husband?), the abode of both was 76 Fitzjohn Avenue, Barnet, and Fred and Lydia May Watts in 1921, and Frank Thomas and Alice Emma Wight from 1923.
Death of Ellen M Friday in FreeBMD in January-March 1930 aged 51 in E Preston (2b 523).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Ellen Mary Friday died 8 February 1930 in Hertfordshire (sic), probate 7 May 1930 in London. "Friday Ellen Mary of 76 Fitzjohn-avenue Barnet Hertfordshire (wife of Robert Henry Friday) died 8 February 1930 at Sunnydene Reigate-road West Worthing Administration London 7 May to the said Robert Henry Friday butcher and Bertie William Friday gentleman. Effects £1410 4s. 6d."
There are thirty seven entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Ellen Mary Cowles.
The following information is from an email:
Chipping Barnet is now known as High Barnet.
Ellen Mary Cowles was my fifth cousin.
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