Birth: 30 June 1923 Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, UK
Father: William Alexander Cowles 1883-1952
Mother: Elsie Elizabeth Goodman 1883-1962
Marriage: 2 September 1950 Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, UK
Husband: Arthur Wilfred Wrench 1921-2012
Death: 1 February 2012 in Ledbury, Herefordshire HR8
Christine G Wrench [Howes] 1952-a1984
Brian D Wrench 1956-a1986
Birth of Elsie M Cowles, mother's maiden name Goodman, in FreeBMD in July-September 1923 in Tamworth (6B 757).
Marriage of Elsie M Cowles and Arthur W Wrench in FreeBMD in July-September 1950 in Sutton Coldf'd (9C 2969).
Entry in Ancestry UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current for Miss Elsie Mary Cowles of Refectory Road, Sutton Coldfield and A W Wrench on 2 September 1950.
Her two children were born in Sutton Coldfield in 1952 and 1956.
Entry in 192.com for Elsie M Wrench in the Electoral Roll 2002-03, 2012 living in Ledbury, Herefordshire HR8, other occupant Arthur W Wrench (husband?).
Entry in Ancestry UK, Electoral Registers, 2003-2010 for Mrs Elsie M Wrench address 26 Bramley Close HR8 2XP, Ledbury, Herefordshire from 2003 to 2004.
Entry in Ancestry England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2018 for Mrs Elsie Mary Wrench, born 30 June 1923, on 1 February 2012 in Ledbury, Herefordshire HR8.
There are eleven entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Elsie Mary Cowles.
Entry in Geneanet Community Trees Index for Elsie Mary Cowles parents William Alexander Cowles and Elsie Elizabeth Goodman, to Arthur Wrench, and a daughter and son.
Information from an email: William Alexander and Elsie Elizabeth Cowles had an only child: Elsie Mary Cowles (in 1956 residing at Sutton Coldfield). She married 1950 Arthur Wrench and has one son and one daughter, Christine G. born in 1952 and Bryan D. born in 1956.
Note that Sutton Coldfield was in Tamworth until 1932.
Elsie Mary Cowles was my fifth cousin once removed.
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