Birth: 11 July 1807 Panxworth, Norfolk, UK
Father: James Cowles (Cowell, Cowls) 1764-1852
Mother: Susan (Susanna) Scott 1778-1855
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 13 Nov 1826 Wroxham, Norfolk, UK
Husband: Stephen Tidman (Tedman) 1801-1866
Death: Mar 1874 Acle, Norfolk, UK
Burial: 23 March 1874 St Edmunds, Acle, Norfolk, UK
Emily Tidman 1829
Robert Tidman 1831
James Tidman 1832
Deborah Tidman 1837
Sarah Tidman 1840
Abraham Tidman 1842
William Tidman 1844
Susan Tidman 1848
Mary Ann Tidman [Fitt] 1851-1926
She was a witness at her brother Abraham's wedding in Wroxham in 1824.
Entry in the Norfolk Transcription Archive for Mary Ann Cowles and Stephen Tidman, Groom Panxworth, in St Faiths, Wroxham in 1826.
There are two entries in the IGI for the marriage of Mary Ann Cowles and Stephen Tedman (sic), both in Wroxham, Norfolk, one dated 24 September 1826 (which I cannot find in the parish records) and the other on 13 November 1826. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for the marriage (sic) of Mary Ann Cowles and Stephen Tedman (sic) on 24 Sep 1826 at Wroxham. "Page 2 (The Year 1826) Banns of Marriage between Stephen Tidman singleman of the Parish of Pansworth and Mary Ann Cowles singlewoman of this Parish Were published on the three Sundays underwritten: 1st Time, Sunday, 6 Septr 1826 [...] 2d Time, Sunday, 17 Septr 1826 [...] 3d Time, Sunday, 24th Septr 1826".
Two entries in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 for the marriage of Mary Ann Cowles and Stephen Tedman (sic) in Wroxham, Norfolk, one on 24 September 1826 (banns?), and the other on 13 November 1826, and there is also an entry for Mary Ann Cowers and Stephen Tidman on 15 October 1828 at Ranworth, Norfolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for the marriage of Mary Ann Cowles and Stephen Tedman (sic) on 13 November 1826 in Wroxham. "Page 12 [...] Stephen Tidman singleman of the Parifh of Panxworth and Mary Ann Cowles singlewoman of this Parifh were married in this Church by Banns with the Confent of [blank] this 13th Day of Novr in the Year One thoufand eight hundred and 26 [...] This marriage was folemnized between us The mark of Stephen Tidman The mark of Mary Ann Cowles in the Prefence of The mark of James Cowles and William Javis. No. 35".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for the marriage of Mary Ann Cowles and Stephen Tidman on 13 November 1826 in Wroxham. "Page 12 Marriages in the Parish of Wroxham in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1826 [...] Stephen Tidman singleman of the Parish of Panxworth and Mary Ann Cowles singlewoman of this Parish were married in this Church by Banns with the Confent of [blank] this 13th Day of Novr in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty six [...] This marriage was folemnized between us The mark of Stephen Tidman The mark of Mary Ann Cowles in the Prefence of The mark of James Cowles and William Javis. No. 35".
In the 1841 census as Mariann (sic - on the orginal) Tidman aged 34, born in Norfolk, and living with Stephen (husband?), James and Robert (sons?) and Deborah, Emily and Sarah (daughters?) in South Walsham St Mary, Norfolk.
In the 1851 census as Mary A Sidman (sic - in the index, Tidman on the original) aged 44, born in Panworth, Norfolk, and living with her husband (Stephen), three sons (Abraham, James and Robert), and four daughters (Deborah, Mary A, Sarah and Susan) in South Walsham St Lawrence, Norfolk.
In the 1861 census as Mary Ann Tidman aged 54, born in Panxworth, Norfolk, and living with her husband (Stephan), son (James), and four daughters (Deborah, Mary Ann, Sarah and Susan) in Acle, Norfolk.
Her husband died in Acle in 1866.
I cannot find her in the 1871 census.
Death of Mary Ann Tidman in FreeBMD in January-March 1874 aged 64 in Blofield (4B 148).
There are seventy two entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Mary Ann Cowles adding her birth on 11 July 1807 in Panxworth, Norfolk, parents James and Susan Cowles.
Panxworth is on B1140 7 miles east of Norwich, Acle is 4 miles further east on A47. Wroxham is 6 miles NE of Norwich.
Mary Ann Cowles was my great grandaunt.
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