Birth: Circa 1793 Scotswood, Northumberland, UK
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 7 January 1828 Gateshead, Durham, UK
Wife: Jane Johnson c1801-1861
Death: October-December 1870 Kibblesworth, Durham, UK
Sarah Lowrie 1827-a1841
Robert Lowry c1830-a1851
Thomas Lowery c1832-a1851
Joseph Lowery (Lowrey) c1836-1906
William Lowery c1838-a1861
John Lowery c1840-a1861
His daughter was born on 1 October 1827.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 for William Lowery and Jane Johnson on 7 January 1828 in Gateshead, Durham.
His daughter was baptised 25 January 1828 surname Lowrie in Durham, and his son was baptised 1 January 1830 and baptised 21 March 1830 in Gateshead surname Lowry.
His four sons were born from 1832 to 1840 in Sheriff Hill, Gateshead with the possible exception of John.
In the 1841 census as William Lowrey (sic - on the original) aged 40 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Durham, a pitworker, and living with Jane (wife?), John, Joseph, Robert Thomas and William (sons?) and Sarah (daughter?) in New Row, Gateshead, Durham.
In the 1851 census as William Lowrey aged 57, born in Scotswood, Northumberland, a coal miner, and living with his wife (Jane Lowry), and five sons (John, Joseph, Robert, Thomas and William, surnames Lowry) in Kibblesworth, Durham. The surname spelling is difficult to interpret.In the 1861 census as William Lawery aged 68, born in Scotswooth (sic), Northumberland, a coal miner, and living with his wife (Jane), two sons (John and William), daughter-law (Elizabeth) and grandson (William) in Pit Houses, Kibblesworth, Durham.
His wife, spelt Lowrey, died in July-September 1861 in Kibblesworth.
Death of William Lowery in FreeBMD in October-December 1870 aged 78 in Chester le S (10A 280).
There are five entries in Ancestry Family Trees for William Lowery.
Scotswood which is west of Newcastle, just north of the River Tyne, Sheriff Hill is just south of the centre of Gateshead, Kibblesworth is 4 miles south of Gateshead. and was in the registration district of Chester le Street.
William Lowery was the father of Joseph Lowery, husband of Priscilla Ann Thirlaway, aunt of John James Thirlow, husband of Alice Johnston, first cousin of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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