Birth: July-September 1847 Arnesby, Leicestershire, UK
Father: Samuel Horton c1810-1871
Mother: Mary Blackwell 1809-1882
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1878 Islington, Middlesex, UK
Husband: William John Cowles 1853-1906
Death: 2 August 1921 Buckhurst Hill, Essex, UK
Ellen Mary Cowles [Friday] 1879-1930
William Albert Cowles 1880-1880
William Alexander Cowles 1883-1952
Jessie Hannah Cowles [Sanders] 1887-a1926
Birth of Female Horton in FreeBMD in July-September 1847 in Lutterworth (15 143) which included Arnesby.
In the 1851 census as Eliza H Horton aged 3, born in Arnesby, Leicestershire, and living with her parents (Samuel and Mary), two brothers (Samuel and Thomas), three sisters (Ann A, Martha, and Mary E) and a servant (Jane Hunt aged 23, born at Arnesby and single) at Arnesby .
In the 1861 census as Eliza H Horton aged 13, born in Arnesby, and boarding with Elizabeth Shardlow (aged 42, born in Leicester, single ansd a school principal), a teacher (Emma D Parfite aged 30, born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire and single), three other boarders (Louisa Grant aged 14, Margaret A Moore 13, and Matilda Stevenson 14, all born in Leicestershire), ands a servant (Eliza Waterfield aged 21 and born in Woodhurse Eaves, Leicestershire ) at 39 Rutland Street, Leicester St Margaret.
I cannot find her in the 1871 census.
Marriage of Eliza Hannah Horton and William John Cowles in FreeBMD in April-June 1878 in Islington (1b 510).
In the 1881 census as Eliza H Cowles aged 32, born in Arnsby, Leicestershire, and living with her husband (William J), daughter (Ellen M) and a servant (Emily Tebbutt aged 18, born in Newton, Northamptonshire and unmarried) at 28 High Street, South Mimms, Middlesex.
The four children were born in Barnet.
In the 1891 census as Elisa H. Cowles aged 39, born in Arnsley, Leicestershire, and living with her husband (William J), son (William A), two daughters (Ellen M and Jessie H), parents-in-law (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, Middx) at 65 Wood Street,Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire.
In the 1901 census as Eliza Hannah Cowles aged 51, born in Arnesby, Leicestershire, and living with her husband (William John), two daughters (Ellen Mary and Jessie Hannah), widowed grandmother (Ellen Cowles), aunt (Louisa Ann Steel), and three servants (Betsey Fernia 59, born in Thornton, Fife, Scotland and employed as a sick nurse, Gertrude Hart aged 22 and born in Long Meadow, Cambridgeshire, and Rose Sillett aged 19 and born in Bury, Suffolk, all single) at 65 Wood Street,Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Elisa H Cowles in July-August 1921 aged 72 in Epping (4a 339).
Maureen Kristjanson has an entry in RootsWeb WorldConnect for Eliza Hannah Horton born about 1850 in Armsby, Leicestershire, married to William John Cowles in Islington in about Jun 1878 and three children (not William Albert). She also has a similar entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees adding her father was Samuel Horton, all four children, and her death on 2 August 1921 at Buckhurst Hill, Essex.
Eliza Hannah Horton was the wife of William John Cowles, my fourth cousin once removed.
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