Birth: 17 March 1883 Barnet, Hertfordshire, UK
Father: William John Cowles 1853-1906
Mother: Eliza (Elisa) Hannah Horton 1847-1921
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 21 February 1918 Stratford, Essex, UK
Wife: Elsie Elizabeth Goodman 1883-a1918
Death: 29 October 1952 Sutton Coalfield, Warwickshire, UK
Elsie Marie Cowles [Wrench] a1918-a1933
Birth of William Alexander Cowles in a submitted entry in the IGI on 17 March 1883 in Barnet, Hertfordshire, parents William John Cowles and Eliza Hannah Horton, and his death on 29 October 1952 at Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire.
In the 1891 census as William A Cowles aged 8, born in Barnet, Middlesex, and living with his parents ( William J and Eliza H), two sisters (Ellen M. and Jessie H), grandparents (William and Ellen Cowles), a governess (Edith Gregory aged 26, born in Nassington, Northamptonshire and single), and two servants (Elizabeth F Barton aged 18 and born in Harlton, Cambridgeshire, and Fanny C Knightly aged 18 and born in Barnet, Middlesex) at 65 Wood Street, Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire.
In the 1901 census as William Cowles aged 18, born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, single, a pupil marine engineer, and boarding with Elizabeth Jones (aged 53, born in Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, married and no stated employment), her son (Walter aged 27, born in Camden, London, single and employed as a railway clerk) and another boarder (Thomas G Longhurst aged 16, born in Finsbury Park, Middlesex and also a pupil marine engineer) at 70 High Street, East Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire.
Entry in FreeBMD for the marriage of William A Cowles and Elsie E Goodman in January-March 1918 in W Ham (4a 460) which included Stratford.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for William A Cowles in October-December 1952 aged 69 in Sutton Coalf'd (9c 993).
Maureen Kristjanson has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Alexander Cowles born on 17 March 1883 in Barnet, Middlesex, parents William John Cowles and Eliza Hannah Horton, his marriage to Elsie E Goodman on 21 February 1918, his daughter Elsie Mary, and his death in Sutton Coalfield on 29 October 1952.
William Alexander Cowles was my fifth cousin.
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