Birth: 16 September 1856 Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Father: Stephen Cowles 1825-1869
Mother: Esther Clarke 1826-1878
Christening: 1 May 1873 St Margaret, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Marriage: 22 February 1882 St Margaret, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Husband: Lambert Charles Jeffries 1860-a1901
Death: After 1901
Robert Welton Jeffries 1885-1945
Ernest Lambert Jeffries 1886-a1911
Annie (Ann) Maud Jeffries 1888-1889
Birth of Emma Cowles in FreeBMD in October-December 1856 in Mutford (4a 616).
In the 1861 census as Emma Cowles aged 4, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and living with her parents (Stephen and Esther), three brothers (Charles, Edward and Henry), and two sisters (Ann and Ellen) in Factory Lane, Lowestoft, Sussex.
Her father died in 1869.
In the 1871 census as Emma Cowles aged 14, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and living with her widowed mother (Esther), four brothers (Charles, Edward, Henry and John) and five sisters (Alice, Ann, Ellen, Harriet and Lucy) at 22 Factory Lane, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Emma Cowles on 1 May 1873 in Lowestoft, Suffolk, parents Stephen and Esther Cowles.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915 for Emma Cowles born on 16 September 1857 (sic), baptised on 1 May 1873 at Lowestoft, St Margaret, Suffolk, parents Stephen and Ester Cowles. "Page 262 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Lowestoft in the County of Suffolk in the Year 1873 Born 16 Sept 1857 1873 May 1st Emma, [parents] Stephen, [a] Cowman, and Esther Cowles [of] Lowestoft". The date of birth is a year in error from the registration of birth.
Her mother died in 1878.
In the 1881 censusas Emma Cowles aged 23, born in Lowestoft, Sussex, single, no stated employment, and living with her brother (head of the household) and three sisters (Alice, Harriet and Lucy) and a visitor (Nellie Lincoln aged 19, born in Norwich, Norfolk, single and no stated employment) at 112 High St, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
She was a witness to the marriage of her brother Charles to Alice Holmes on 30 December 1879 at Lowestoft St Margaret.
Marriage of Emma Cowles and Lambert Charles Jeffries in FreeBMD in January-March 1882 in Mutford (4a 1010).
Her first two sons were born in Pakefield and christened in Kirkley in 1885 and 1886, and her daughter was born in Lowestoft in 1888 and died there in 1889.
In the 1891 census as Emma Jeffries aged 34, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and living with her husband (Lanbert C), two sons (Ernest L and Welton R), and sister (Lucy) at 14 Mills Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
In the 1901 census as Emma Jeffries aged 41, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and living her husband (Lambert C), and two sons (Ernest L and Robert W) at 35 Wherstead Road, Stoke St Mary, Suffolk.
There are nine entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Emma Cowles.
Emma Cowles was my second cousin once removed.
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