Birth: January-March 1869 Greenwich, Kent, UK
Father: James Cowles 1823-b1891
Mother: Emily Adams 1826-1905
Christening: Unknown
Marriage:June-September 1894 Woolwich, London, UK
Wife: Emma Louisa Alice Payne 1874-1946
Death: After 1913
Edward James Cowles 1895-1919
Ethel Emily Cowles 1897-1911
Arthur Cowles 1898-1954
Nellie Florence A Cowles [Meadows] 1902-1942
Ella Marian (Marion) Cowles [Croucher] 1906-1951
Marian Annie Cowles 1913-1990
Entry in FreeBMD for the birth of Edward Thomas Cowles in January-March 1869 in Greenwich (1d 808).
In 1871 census aged 2, born in Greenwich, and living with his parents (James and Emily), two sisters (Clara and Jane) and a border (Anna Grant aged 1 and born in Greenwich) at No 2 Ennetts Cottages, Old Woolwich Road, Greenwich, Kent.
In 1881 census aged 12, born in Greenwich, and living at 83 Old Woolwich Road, Greenwich, Kent with his parents (James and Emily), three male lodgers Arthur Davis (aged 22, born in Coventry, unmarried, employed as a general labourer, and future husband of Emily), Thomas Heavers (aged 23, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, unmarried, employed as a carman and future husband of Clara), William Seuisbury (aged 21, born in Deptford, unmarried and employed as a boiler maker), a female visitor Elizabeth Blunt (aged 22, born in Cambridge, unmarried and employed as a nurse), a male visitor Harry Horbley (aged 50, born in Deptford, unmarried, and unemployed), and a sister named Edward Horbley (aged 60 born in Greenwich, unmarried, and unemployed) at 83 Old Woolwich Road, Greenwich, Kent.
I cannot find an entry in the 1891 census.
On a copy of the entry of birth for Edward James Cowles on 26 September 1895 he is stated to be the father, living at 44 Kashgar Road and his employment was as stated to be a fireman on an outfall drainage boat, (these boats took the sewage from the outfall pipes near Woolwich, devised by Joseph Bazalgette between 1859 and 1875 for diverting rainwater and waste into the lower reaches of the Thames in London, down river to be dumped at sea).
Marriage in FreeBMD June-September 1894 in Woolwich (created in 1868, included Plumstead and became part of London in 1889).
In the 1901 census as Edwd Cowles aged 33, born in Greenwich, employed as a Engine Greaser at the Outfall Works, and living with his wife (Emma), two sons (Arthur and Edwd) , daughter (Ethel) and mother-in-law (this must be his mother as her name is Emily Cowles) in 4 rooms at 27 Kashgar Road, Plumstead, London. All three children were born in Plumstead so he had probably lived there since his marriage.
On a copy of the entry of marriage No 446 in 1904 in the district of Woolwich, Edward Thomas Cowles was a witness at the marriage of Henry Radley Smallridge and Florence Charlotte Dutton.
Maureen (Curtis) Kristjanson has an entry in Ancestry Public member Trees for Edward Cowles christened in 1869 in Greenwich, parents James Cowles and Emily Adams, his marriage to Emma Payne in 1894 in Woolwich, Norfolk, and six children Arthur, Ella, Ethel Emily, Marion, Nellie F A and Edward James.
My father's records state he was a Bargemaster on Thames and moved from Abbey Wood to Vange because of his asthma. Ella was born in Belvedere - was this the same address (it is about mile from Plumstead).
Edward Thomas Cowles was my grandfather.
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