Birth: 1764 Kirby Cane, Norfolk, UK
Father: James Cowles (Cowls) 1729/30-1796
Mother: Elizabeth Farrant (Fanett, Faurtt, Harrett) c1741-1790
Christening: 20 August 1764 All Saints, Kirby Cane, Norfolk UK and 2 September 1864 Stockton, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: 10 October 1794 Mulbarton, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Susan (Susanna) Scott 1778-1855
Death: November 1852 Shotesham, Norfolk, UK
Buried: 28 November 1852 All Saints, Shotesham, Norfolk, UK
Abraham Cowell (Cowles) 1799-1856
Elizabeth Cowell 1802
Mary Ann Cowles [Tidman (Tedman)] 1807-1874
William Cowles c1813-1867
Emily Cowell (Cowles) [Martins] 1817-1876
James Cowles 1823-1881/91
Submitted entry for the christening of James Cowles in the IGI on 20 August 1764 in Kirby Cane, Norfolk, parents James Cowles and Elizabeth.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for James Cowls (sic) on 20 August 1764 in Kirby-Cane, Norfolk, parents James and Eliz Cowls (sic). There is also an entry for James Cowles on 2 September 1764 in Stockton, Norfolk, parents James and Eliz Cowles
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 for James Cowls on 20 August 1764 in Kirby-Cane, parents James and Eliz Cowls (sic). "1764 [...] James Son of James Cowls & Eliz his Wife of Stockton Baped August ye 20th". There is also an entry for James Cowles baptised on 2 September 1764 in Stockton, parents James and Eliz Cowles. "James Son of James & Eliz Cowles was Bapd Sep 2d 1764".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for James Cowls on 20 August 1764 in Kirby-Cane, parents James and Eliz Cowls (sic). "A Bill indented of Christenings, Marriages & Burials in ye year 1764 Christenings [...] James ye Son of James Cowls & Eliz his Wife of Baped August ye 20th". There is also an entry for James Cowles baptised on 2 September 1764 in Stockton, parents James and Eliz Cowles. "A list of all the Baptisms, marriages and Burials within the parish of Stockton from March the 25th 1764 to March ye 25th 1765 taken from the Register books of the said Parish Baptims James Son of James & Eliz Cowles was Baptized Sepr the 2d 1764".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for the banns of James Cowell and Susanna Scott on 5 October 1794 at Mulbarton. "The Year 1794 Page 19 No. 77 Banns of Marriage between James Cowell and Susanna Scott, Both Single Persons of this Parish were publifhed on the three Sundays underwritten: That is to fay, On Sunday, the 21st Septembr 1794 On Sunday, the 28th of September On Sunday, the 5th of October".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for the banns [sic] of James Cowell and Susanna Scott on 10 October 1794 at Mulbarton. "James Cowell of this Parish Single Man and, and Susanna Scott of this Parish Single Woman were married in this Church by Banns, this Tenth Day of October in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Ninety Four [...] in the Presence of John Spurgen and Elizabeth Oreton".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for the marriage of James Cowell and Susanna Scott on 10 October 1794 at Mulbarton. "The Year 1794 Page 26 [...] No. 77 James Cowell of this Parish Single Man and, and Susanna Scott of this Parish Single Woman were married in this Church by Banns, this Tenth Day of October in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Ninety Four [...] in the Presence of John Spurgen and Elizabeth Oreton".
There are two marriages in the Norfolk Transcription Archive for marriages in St Faiths, Wroxham - Abraham Cowles and Mary Ann Cowles - I guess these are also children of James and Susan. Abraham was born in Mulbarton and Mary in Panxworth.
His son William was christened in Panxworth or Spixworth in 1813.
Entry in the Norfolk Transcription Archive for the christening of James Cowles, son of James and Susan, in 1823 in St Faiths, Wroxham, gives his employment as a blacksmith.
In the 1841 census as James Cowles aged 75 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Norfolk, employed as an agricultural labourer, and living with Susanna Cowle (wife?) and William Cowle (son?) in Shottesham All Saints, Norfolk.
On the copy made on 19 January 2006 of the entry of marriage for James Cowles and Emily Adams on 27 July 1846 he is stated to be the father of James and employed as a labourer.
In the 1851 census as James Cowell (sic - on the original as well as in the index), aged 84, born in Hedenham, a pauper formerly blacksmith, blind, and living with his wife (Susan Cowell) and son (William Cowell) at Street, Shotesham All Saints, Norfolk.
Entry in FreeBMD for the death of James Cowles in October-December 1852 in Henstead, Norfolk (4b 127) which included Shortesham.
Entry in Ancestry All England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 for James Cowles buried on 28 November 1852 at Shottesham-All Saints, Norfolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941 for James Cowles buried on 28 November 1852 at Shottesham-All Saints.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1990 for James Cowles buried on 28 November 1852 at Shottesham-All Saints. "Page 59 Burials in the Parifh of Shotesham All Saints in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1852 [...] James Cowles No. 470 of Shotesham All Saints on November 28 aged 86".
There are entries in Ancestry England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 for Susan Cowles buried on 30 December 1855 at Shottesham-All Saints, Norfolk, in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941 for Susan Cowles buried on 30 December 1855 in Shottesham, Norfolk, and in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1990 for Susan Cowles on 30 December 1855 aged 79 in Shotesham, All Saints "Page 63 Burials in the Parifh of Shotesham All Saints in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1855 [...] Susan Cowles No. 503 of Newton on December 30 aged 79". There is an entry for the death of Susan Cowles in FreeBMD in October-December 1855, the original handwritten entry is almost illegible but probably Henstead (4b 119).
There are twenty five entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for James Cowles.
Stockton is immediately east of Kirby Cane which is some 4 miles east of Hedenham, and all are 12 miles SSE of Norwich. Wroxham is 7 miles NE of Norwich, Spixworth is 5 miles NNE, and Panxworth 7 miles ENE. Mulbarton is 5 miles SE of Norwich. South Walsham is between the two.
James Cowles was my second great grandfather.
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