Birth: 11 December 1894 34 Buchan Road, Nunhead, London, UK
Father: Frederick Nicholson Dowley 1849-1906
Mother: Alice Wadie 1862-1921
Christening: 6 January 1895 St Antony, Nunhead, London, UK
Marriage: Cica 1947 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Wife: Mildred Boxall
Death: 21 December 1962 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Birth of Reginald Thomas Dowley in FreeBMD in October-December 1894 in Camberwell (1d 954).
Entry in Ancestry All London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 for Reginald Thomas Dowley on 6 January 1895 at Saint Antony, Nunhead, parents Frederick Nicholson and Alice Dowley. "Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of At Anthony Nunhead in the County of London in the year 1905-1905 Page 31 No 246 1895 Jany 6th Reginald Thomas born Decr 11th 1894, parents Frederick Nicholson, a post office porter, and Alice Dowley at 34 Buchan Road".
In the 1901 census as Reginald T Dowley aged 6, born in Camberwell, London, and living with his parents (Frederick N and Alice), brother (Algernon N) and sister (Gertrude A) in four rooms at 50 Hawbury Road, Peckham, Camberwell, London. Another family lived at the same address.
His sister was born in Camberwell in 1902.
His father died in Camberwell in 1906.
In the 1911 census as Reginald Dowley aged 16, born in London, an apprentice compositor, and living with his widowed mother (Alice), brother (Algernon) and sister (Winifred) in three rooms at 48 Seymour Buildings, Seymour Place, St Mary, St Marylebone, London.
There are ten entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1847-1965 for Reginald Thomas Dowley living in St Pancras in 1926, Southwark in 1927, Deptford in 1928 and 1929, Wandsworth in 1929, Balham, Tooting and Clapham in 1930, Lewisham in 1932, Norwood in 1934, Brixton and Kennington in 1935 and Clapham, Putney and Streatham in 1938.
Entry in The London Gazette 4 November 1941 for ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE. [...] ADMINISTRATIVE AND.SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH. [...] To be Actg. ' Pit. Offs. on prob. (emergency) [...] 26th Sept. 1941. [...] Reginald Thomas DOWLEY (107389).
Entry in Ancestry All New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 results for Reginald Dowley born in 1895 arriving on 25 February 1947 on the Halton R Carey from London.
Entry in the Ancestry All British Columbia, Canada, Death Index, 1872-1990 for Reginald Thomas Dowley, born in 1985, on 21 December 1962 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Reginald T Dowley born in 1895 in Camberwell, London. Another entry adds his parents as Frederick Nicholson Dowley and Alice Wadie. Another adds his departure from London on 11 February 1947 on SS Halton & Carey, his arrival in New York on 25 February 1947 and death on 21 December 1962 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
An email from Don Boxall states that Reginald Dowley was in the RAF during the war where he met Mildred Boxall who returned to Vancouver, and they married there in about 1947. There were no children. He died there a few years later. Don has some 16mm film made by Reginald of the garden at Green Cross, Churt.
Reginald Thomas Dowley was the husband of Mildred Boxall, my second cousin once removed.
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