Birth: 13 October 1908 Chelsea, London, UK
Father: Herbert Cowles 1880-1956
Mother: Elizabeth Burberry 1885-1915
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 18 March 1833 Wandsworth, London, UK
Wife: Violet Angie Cox 1907-1986
Death: January-March 1978 Wandsworth, Greater London, UK
Clifford Herbert Cowles 1947-a1977
Birth of Herbert Cowles Burberry in FreeBMD in October-December 1908 in Chelsea (1a 341). His name changed to Herbert George Cowles after 1911. I cannot find any evidence for his parents marriage although in 1911 they had been married for three years.
In the 1911 census as Herbert Burberg (sic - on the original) Cowles aged 2, born in London and living with his parents (Herbert and Elizabeth) in two rooms at 59 Flood Street, Chelsea.
His mother died in Wandsworth in 1915.
Entry in The London Gazette 5 June 1931 p3659 "Without Competition [...] Temporary Postman-messengers [...] Herbert George Cowles"
Marriage of Herbert G Cowlew (sic - in the index, Cowles on the typed original) and Violet A Cox in FreeBMD in January-March 1933 in Wandsworth (1d 658).
There are four entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Herbert George Cowles address 152 Church Road SW17, Balham and Tooting, Wandsworth in 1933 plus three other familes at the same address, 64 Rowfant Road, Balham and Tooting, Wandsworth in 1936 to 1937, two other families at the same address, and 863 Garratt Lane SW17, Balham and Tooting, Wandsworth in 1939, two other families at the same address, other occupant Violet Angie Cowles (wife?)
His son was born in 1947 at 81 Zennor Road, Balham.
There are ten entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Herbert G Cowles address 81 Zennor Road, Clapham, Putney and Streatham, Wandsworth in 1946, other occupants Violet L Cowles (wife?), Charles C and Annie E Cowles (brother-in-law? and his wife?), and Clifford Simmons, address 63 Bromfelde Road, Clapham, Wandsworth in 1947 to 1957, two other familes at the same address in 1949 to 1953, and 25 Ambleside, Albert Drive SW19 Putney, Wandsworth in 1957 to 1965, other occupant Violet A Cowles (wife?).
There are 13 entries in Ancestry All British Phone Books, 1880-1984 for H G Cowles in 1959 to 1978, address 25 Ambleside, Albert Drive SW19, number PUTney 3958 in 1959 to 1963, GIBbon 2463 in 1965, 01-789 7437 in 1971 to 1978.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Herbert George Cowles, born on 13 October 1908, in January-March 1978 in Wandsworth (15 1701).
There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Herbert George Cowles born in 1908, parents Herbert Cowles and Elizabeth Burberry. Maureen Kristjanson gives the date of birth as 13 October 1908, his marriage to Violet Cox, his son, and his death in March 1978 in Wandsworth, Greater London.
Email from Maureen Yvonne (Curtis) Kristjanson states Herbert George Cowles was born in October 1908 in Chelsea, married Violet Angie Cox on 18 March 1833 in Wandsworth, a market transport driver, and his son Clifford Herbert Cowles born in 1947 at 81, Zennor Road, Balham.
Herbert George Cowles was my fifth cousin once removed.
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