Birth: 1863 Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, UK
Father: James Cowles 1823-1881/91
Mother: Emily Adams 1826-1905
Marriage: October-December 1882, Greenwich, Kent, UK
Husband: Arthur Davis 1860
Death: After 1901
Christening in IGI.
In 1871 census (as Jane) aged 8, born in Stretton, Warwickshire, and living with her parents, sister, brother 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 18, born in Stretton, Warwick ( Stretton-under-Fosse which is 2 miles SE of Monks Kirby), unmarried, employed as a general servant by David W and Harriet B Wise, (born in Falmouth and Plymouth respectively) an Assistant Paymaster in the Royal Navy and living with them, their four daughters and son, an adopted girl, and another general servant at 63 Tressillian Rd, Deptford St Paul, Kent.
Marriage in FreeBMD, October-December 1882 in Greenwich (which did not included Deptford, and was in Kent until 1889).
In 1891 census (as Jane Davis) aged 28, born in Coventry, Warwickshire, and living with her husband, daughter and a visitor Mary L Parker (aged 19, unemployed and born in East markham, Nottinghamshire) at 3 Crescent Road, Erith, Kent.
In 1901 census aged 38, born in Warwickshire, and living with her husband and two daughters at 33 Crossness (there is a Lane and a Footpath) , Erith, Kent. The oldest daughter was born at Canning Town, Essex and the youngest at Plumstead.
At Stretton-under-Fosse (a hamlet within the parish) is the entrance to Newbold Revel, the home of the Skipworths. Prior to their rebuilding of the house in 1716 it was owned by Sir Thomas Malory, a Knight in the Wars of the Roses, who translated the mediaeval legend of Morte d 'Arthur into English.
I am her grandnephew.
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