Birth: 29 May 1900 Chelmsford, Essex, UK
Father: Harry William Meadows 1875-1934
Mother: Lily Martha Brown c1866-1933
Marriage: April-June 1928 Billericay, Essex, UK
Wife: Nellie Florence Annie Cowles 1902-1942
Death: 12 February 1971 Dartford, Kent, UK
Burial: 18 February 1971 Greenwich, London, UK
Michael Edward Meadows 1934-2003
Birth of Henry Edward Meadows in FreeBMD in April-June 1900 in Chelmsford (14A 619).
His sister was born in Belvedere in 1903.
In the 1911 census as Henry Edward Meadows aged 10, born in Chelmsford, Essex, and living with his parents (Harry William and Lily), sister (Winifed Agnes Mary) and uncle (Henry Juniper Brown) in six rooms at 43 Bexley Rd, Belvedere, Kent.
In the 1921 census as Henry E Meadows born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1900 and living with Harry W and Lily Meadows (parents?) in Erith, Dartford, Kent.
Entry in Ancestry All Bexley, Kent, England, Electoral Registers, 1734-1965 for Henry Edward Meadows address 43 Bexley Road, Belvedere, Erith in 1926, other occupants Harry William and Lily Martha Meadows (parents?) and Winifred Meadows (sister?).
Marriage of Henry E Meadows and Nellie F A Cowles in FreeBMD in April-June 1928 in Billericay (4a 1450)
Five entries in Ancestry All Bexley, Kent, England, Electoral Registers, 1734-1965 for Henry Edward Meadows address 142 Bedonwell Hill, Belvedere, Bostall, Erith from 1929 t0 1934, other occupant Nellie Florence Annie Meadows (wife?).
His son was born in Dartford in 1934.
Five entries in Ancestry All Bexley, Kent, England, Electoral Registers, 1734-1965 for Henry Edward Meadows addresses 142 Bedonwell Hill, Belvedere, Bostall, Erith, Dartford from 1937, from 1935 t0 1938, other occupant Nellie Florence Annie Meadows (wife?), and 308 Bedonwell Road, Belvedere, Bostall, Erith, Dartford in 1939, other occupant Nellie Florence Annie Meadows (wife?).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Henry E Meadows born 29 May 1900, married, a fitter armament gun work, and living with Nellie F A Meadows (wife?) at 308 Bedonwell Road, Erith, Kent. His son was living at Ingledene, Churt.
His wife died in Greenwich in 1942. He worked at Woolwich Arsenal, and joined his son at Ingledene at weekends for the rest of the war.
Fourteen entries in Ancestry All Bexley, Kent, England, Electoral Registers, 1734-1965 for Henry Edward Meadows address 308 Bedonwell Road, Bostall, Erith, Dartford from 1946 to 1963, other occupants Mary A Bromley in 1945, Amelia Mattison from 1952 to 1957, Michael E Meadows (son?) from 1955, and Mary K Meadows (daughter-in-law?) from 1961.
Death of Henry Edward Meadows, born 29 May 1900, in FreeBMD, in January-March 1971 in Dartford (5f 850).
Entry in Deceased Online for Henry Edward Meadows died 12 February 1971 buried 18 February 1971 in Greenwich, London. Sylvia and Dennis went to the funeral.
Henry Edward Meadows was the husband of Nellie Florence A Cowles, my aunt.
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