Birth: July-September 1884 Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Father: Edward Cowles 1859-1888
Mother: Mary Ann Taylor [Cooke] 1856-1934
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Unknown
Death: After 1901
Unknown
Birth of Louis Edward Cowles in FreeBMD in July-September 1884 in Mutford (4a 918) which included Lowestoft.
His father died in 1888 and his mother married Henry William Cooke in 1890.
In the 1891 census as Lewis (sic - on the original) E Cowles aged 6 born in Lowestoft, and living with his stepfather (Henry W Cooke), mother (Mary Ann), and sister (Lucy B) at 59 Edinburgh Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
In the 1901 census as Louis Gowles (sic - in the index, correct on the original) aged 16, born in Lowestoft, a sawyers mate, and "visiting" Clara Motts (aged 37, born in Kessingland, Suffolk, married but not with her husband, and no stated employment) her daughter (Dora aged 18, born in Kessingland, single and a dressmaker working on her own account)), and two other "visitors" (Herbert Heart aged 18, born in Kessingland, single and a fisherman and Florence Rose aged 18, born in Bentley, Essex, single and a domestic servant) at 47 Beaconsfield Road, Kirkley, Suffolk.
Kilkley is just south of Lowestoft.
Louis Edward Cowles was my third cousin.
Return to Cowles Gendex.
Return to Croucher Gendex.
Return to Croucher Home Page.