Birth: 1672 Kirby Cane, Norfolk, UK
Father: Roger Cowles (Coules, Coulds, Couls) 1643-1680
Mother: Anne ? b1655-a1680
Christening: 24 September 1672 All Saints, Kirby Cane, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Susanna Smith?
Death: January 1740/1 Gillingham, Norfolk, UK
Burial: 4 January 1740/1 Gillingham, Norfolk, UK
Charles Cowles c1698-1755
Amy Cowles 1699
John Cowles 1701-1780
Anna Cowles 1705-1705
Robert Cowles 1709-1711
Jacobus Cowles 1713
Christening of John Cowles in the Pedigree Resource File on 24 September 1672 in Kirby Cane, Norfolk, parents Roger and Ann Cowles.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 for John Coulds baptised 24 September 1672 in Kirby Cane, parents Roger and Ann Coulds. The original is almost illegible "1668 [...] 1672 [...] Cowles John the Son of Roger Coulds Ann his wife was baptized the 24th Day of September".
I cannot locate an entry for his marriage, and the only evidence I can find for births is those of Anna, Robert and Jacobus in Gillingham where the father is Johanis.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 for John Cowles on 4 January 1740 in Gillingham, Thornham, Norfolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 for John Cowles buried on 4 January 1740 in Gillingham, Norfolk. "John Cowles buried January the fourth 1740". This was in the Julian calendar -
There are 151 entries in Ancestry Family Trees for John Cowles. There are also 180 entries for Susanna Smith born or baptised in Kirby Cane or Topcroft in 1671/2, parents Robert and Margaret Smith but none give any reference to her marriage and her burial in Gillingham in 1711 is given with the surname Smith not Cowles.
Kirby Cane is some 14 miles SSE of Norwich and Gillingham is 4 miles SE of Kirby Cane on A146.
John Cowles was my fifth great grandfather.
Return to Cowles Gendex.
Return to Main Gendex.
Return to Croucher Home Page.