Birth: 8 October 1893 Hackney, London, UK
Father: William Edward Fryer 1863-1896
Mother: Florence Isadore Curtress 1862-1905
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: July-September 1913 Edmonton, Middlesex, UK
Husband: Reginald Sidney Cowles 1890-1981
Death: 2 January 1976 41 Old Street, Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire, UK
Mabel Florence Cowles 1915-1938
Irene Maud Cowles [Clark, James] 1917-2007
Margaret Cowles [Burdon] 1930-2009
Audrey B Cowles [Ackerman] 1935-a1954
Birth of Mabel Constance Fryer in FreeBMD in October-December 1893 in Hackney (1b 523). Her father was living at 111 Sandringham Road, Hackney in 1893, and he died in 1896.
In the 1901 census as Mable (sic) Fryer aged 7, born in Hackney, London, and living with her married mother (Florence), two brothers (Charles and Edward), four sisters (Dorothy, Florence, Lydia and Sarah), and a visitor (John Sampson aged 48, born in Mile End, London, single, occupation illegible) at 269 Amhurst Road, Hackney, London.
Her mother died in Hackney in 1905.
In the 1911 census as Mabel Constance Fryer aged 17, born in Hackney, London, single, a sewing machinist of underclothing, and living with her brother-in-law and sister (Edward Arthur and Florence Kate Line), sister (Lydia Maria Fryer) and neice (Edna Florence Line) in five rooms at 27 Bristall Road, Tottenham, Middlesex.
Marriage of Mabel C Fryer and Reginald S Cowles in FreeBMDin July-September 1913 in Edmonton (3a 1183).
Her first daughter was born in Edmonton in 1915, and second in Dartford in 1917.
Two entries in Ancesty London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Mabel Cowles address 86 Evering Road, Stamford Hill, Hackney in 1926 and 1927, other occupant Reginald Sidney Cowles (husband?) and two for Mabel Constance Cowles address 231 Kenmore Avenue, Kenton, Harrow, Hendon, Barnet in 1935 and 1936, other occupant Reginald Sidney Cowles (husband?).
Her daughter Mabel Florence Cowles died on 1 June 1938 in Southend Municipal Hospital, Rochford, Essex, and left effects of £110 2s. 5d to Reginald Sidney Cowles railway clerk and Mabel Constance Cowles (wife of the said Reginald Sidney Cowles).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Mabel C Cowles born 8 Oct 1893, married, and living with Reginald S Cowles (husband?), Margaret Cowles (daughter?) and one other (daughter?) at 56 Landsdowne Avenue, Southend on Sea, Essex.
Death of Mabel Constance Cowles, born on 8 October 1893, in FreeBMD in March 1976 in Evesham (29 0265).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Mabel Constance Cowles died 2 January 1976 in Upton upon Severn Worcs, probate 12 March 1976 in Oxford. "Cowles, Mabel Constance of 41 Old St Upton upon Severn Worcs died 2 January 1976 Administration Oxford 12 March £2176."
There are two entries in RootsWeb WorldConnect for Mabel C Fryer married to Reginald Sidney Cowles in August 1913 in Edmonton, Middlesex and her two daughters.
Information from an email: Reginald Sidney Cowles born 1891 at Chiswick, lived at one time at Edmonton; he married Mabel Fryer and had daughters Mabel C. Cowles in 1915 and Irene M. Cowles in 1917.
Mabel Constance Fryer was the wife of Reginald Sidney Cowles, my fifth cousin.
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