Birth: 1 December 1890 Chiswick, Middlesex, UK
Father: George Cowles 1855-1913
Mother: Fanny Georgina Keep 1854-1915
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: July-September 1913 Edmonton, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Mabel Constance Fryer 1893-1976
Death: 12 October 1981 41 Old Street, Upton on Severn, Worcestershire, UK
Mabel Florence Cowles 1915-1938
Irene Maud Cowles [Clark, James] 1917-2007
Margaret Cowles [Burdon] 1930-2009
Audrey B Cowles [Ackerman] 1935-a1954
Entry in FreeBMD for Reginald Sidney Cowles in January-March 1891 in Brentford (3a 113) which included Chiswick. (Note that his name is on the original typed page for that quarter but this conflicts with his date of birth given below as 1 December 1892. However on his entry of death his birth is given as 1890 which I assume is correct).
There is a submitted entry in the IGI for Reginald Sidney Coles born in 1891 in Chissick, London, parents George Cowles and Fanny Georgina Keep.
I cannot find an entry for the family in the 1891 census.
His sister Ethel was born in West Drayton in 1893.
In the 1901 census as Reginald C Cowles aged 9, born in Chiswick, Middlesex, and living with his parents (Geo and Fanny G), four brothers (Chas C, Fred C, and Harry) and two sisters (Ellen C and Ethel M) in Hackney, London (original is illegible).
Entry in Ancesty British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920 for Reginald Sidney Cowles, aged 18, born in Slough, Buckinghamshire (sic - on the original), next of kin father Mr Cowles 290 Fore Street Edmonton, a clerk on Midland Railway, height 5 Ft 3 in, chest 32.5 +2.5 in, good vision and physical development, address 292 Fore Steet, Edmonton, No. 228 Royal Field Artillery, London Brigade Territorial Force attested for four years on 16 June as a driver, attended annual camp 1910, discharged 24 November 1911 at his own request.
In the 1911 census as Reginald Cowles aged 20, born in Wick (sic - in the index, Chiswick W on the original), single, a railway clerk, and living with his parents (George and Fanny Georgina), and brother (Harry) in four rooms at 20 Maury Road, Stoke Newington.
Marriage of Reginald S Cowles and Mabel C Fryer in FreeBMD in July-September 1913 in Edmonton (3a 1183).
Mabel was born in Edmonton, but Irene in Dartford so I assume the family moved about 1916.
Entry in Ancestry UK, City and County Directories, 1766 - 1946 for Reginald S Cowles address Ifield, Bournemouth Park Road, Southend, Essex in 1922.
Two entries in Ancestry All British Phone Books, 1880-1984 for Reginald S Cowles 86 Evering Road N.16 number CLIssold 7581 in 1926 and 1927.
His two daughters Margaret and Audrey were born in St Pancras in 1930 and 1935.
Four entries in Ancesty London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Reginald Sidney Cowles addresses 86 Evering Road, Stamford Hill, Hackney in 1926 and 1927, other occupant Mabel Cowles (wife?) and 231 Kenmore Avenue, Kenton, Harrow, Hendon, Barnet in 1935 and 1936, other occupant Mabel Constance Cowles (wife?).
His daughter Mabel Florence died on 1 June 1938 at Southend Municipal Hospital, Rochford, Essex, normal address 56 Lansdowne Avenue, Leigh on Sea, and left effects of £110 2s. 5d to Reginald Sidney Cowles railway clerk and Mabel Constance Cowles (wife of the said Reginald Sidney Cowles).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Reginald S Cowles born 1 December 1890, married, a railway clerk, and living with Mabel C Cowles (wife?), Margaret Cowles (daughter?) and one other (daughter?) at 56 Landsdowne Avenue, Southend on Sea, Essex.
His wife died in Upton on Severn in 1976.
Death of Reginald Sidney Cowles, born on 1 December 1890, in FreeBMD in Malvern (29 622) in October-December 1981.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Reginald Sidney Cowles died 12 October 1981 in Upton on Severn, Worcestershire, probate 6 January 1982 in Oxford. "Cowles, Reginald Sidney of 41 Old St Upton on Severn Worcs died 12 October 1981 Probate Oxford £25894".
Maureen (Curtis) Kristjanson has two entries in RootsWeb WorldConnect for Reginald Sidney Cowles born 1 December 1892 in Chiswick, Middlesex, parents George Cowles and Fanny Georgina Keep, his marriage to Mabel C Fryer in about 1913 in Edmonton, his two daughters, and his death in Malvern in December 1982. There are 30 entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees.
Information from an email: Reginald Sidney Cowles born 1891 at Chiswick, lived at one time at Edmonton; he married Mabel Fryer and had daughters Mabel C. Cowles in 1915 and Irene M. Cowles in 1917. He died in December, 1982 at the age of 90 in Malvern.
Reginald Sidney Cowles was my fifth cousin.
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