Birth: 2 August 1864 Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Father: Stephen Cowles 1826-1869
Mother: Esther Clarke 1826-1878
Christening: 22 October 1885 St Margaret, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Marriage: Unknown
Husband: Unknown
Death: After 1891
Unknown
Birth of Harriet Cowles in FreeBMD in July-September 1864 in Mutford (4a 684) which included Lowestoft.
There is a submitted entry in the IGI for the birth of Harriet Cowles in Lowestoft, Suffolk in 1865, parents Stephen and Esther Cowles.
Her father was buried on 29 September 1869 in St Margaret, Lowestoft,
In the 1871 census as Harriet Cowles aged 6, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and living with her widowed mother (Esther), four brothers (Charles, Edward, Henry and John) and five sisters (Ann, Alice, Ellen, Emma and Lucy) at 22 Factory Lane, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Her mother was buried on 30 October 1878 in St Margaret, Lowestoft,
In the 1881 census as Harriet Cowles aged 16, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, a milliner and living with her brother (Edward - head of the family), three sisters (Alice, Emma and Lucy) and a visitor (Nellie Lincoln aged 19, born in Norwich, single and no stated employment) at 112 High Street, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915 for Harriett Cowles born on 2 August 1864, baptised on 22 October 1885 at Lowestoft, St Margaret, Suffolk, parents Stephen and Esther Cowles. "Page 34 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Lowestoft in the County of Suffolk in the Year One thousand eight hundred and eighty five [...] 1885 Oct 22 No. 272 Harriett Born Aug 2 1864 parents Stephen, a farmer, and Esther Cowles of Lowestoft."
In the 1891 census as Harriet Cowles aged 26, born in Lowestoft, Norfolk, single, a dressmaker's assistant, and boarding with Ebenezer Hibberd (aged 62, born in Tisbury and a master draper, outfitter, and house furnisher), his wife (Maria Ja Hibberd aged 59 and born in Tisbury), four sons (Ebenezer El aged 35 and a master draper, Anthony aged 23 and a drapers commercial traveller, Arthur aged 24 and an assistant house furnisher, and William Pow aged 28 and a dress and lace agent, all born in Tisbury and all single), daughter (Ethel aged 33, born in Tisbury, single and no stated employment), a visitor (Emily H Jakes aged 28, born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, single and living on her own means), five other boarders (all drapers assistants or apprentices) and two general domestic servants at Hibberds Brothers, High Street, East Tisbury, Wiltshire.
There are three entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Harriet Cowles.
Harriet Cowles was my second cousin once removed.
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