Birth: 1778 Mulbarton, Norfolk, UK
Father: Henry Scott b1762-a1778
Mother: Elizabeth Spice 1755-a1778
Christening: 2 August 1778 St Mary Magdalen, Mulbarton, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: 10 October 1794 Mulbarton, Norfolk, UK
Husband: James Cowles (Cowell, Cowls) 1764-1852
Death: December 1855 Shotesham, Norfolk, UK
Burial: 30 December 1855 All Saints, Shotesham, Norfolk, UK
Abraham Cowell (Cowles) 1799-1856
Elizabeth Cowell 1802
Mary Ann Cowles [Tidman (Tedman)] 1807-1874
William Cowles c1813-1867
Emily Cowell (Cowles) [Matins] 1817-1876
James Cowles 1823-1881/91
Two entries in FreeReg for the baptism of Susan Scott on 2 August 1778 at St Mary Magdalen, Mulbarton, parents Henry and Elizabeth Scott.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 for Susan Scott baptised on 2 August 1778 in Mulbarton, parents Henry and Elizabeth Scott. "[...] Baptised 1778 [...] Susan D. of Henry & Elizabeth Scott. August 2d".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for the banns of Susanna Scott and James Cowell on 5 October 1794 at Mulbarton. "The Year 1794 Page 19 No. 77 Banns of Marriage between James Cowell and Susanna Scott, Both Single Persons of this Parish were publifhed on the three Sundays underwritten: That is to fay, On Sunday, the 21st Septembr 1794 On Sunday, the 28th of September On Sunday, the 5th of October".
Three entries in FreeReg for the Marriage of Susanna Scott, single/singlewoman/spinster and James Cowell single/singleman/bachelor, both of Mulbarton, on 10 October 1794 at St Mary Magdalen, Mulbarton, witnesses John Spurgeon and Elizabeth Outan/Outon, one adding ny banns, and another "groom signed; bride made mark".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for the banns (sic) of Susanna Scott and James Cowell on 10 October 1794 in Mulbarton, Norfolk. "James Cowell of this Parish Single Man and, and Susanna Scott of this Parish Single Woman were married in this Church by Banns, this Tenth Day of October in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Ninety Four [...] in the Presence of John Spurgen and Elizabeth Oreton".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for the marriage of Susanna Scott and James Cowell on 10 October 1794 at Mulbarton. "The Year 1794 Page 26 [...] No. 77 James Cowell of this Parish Single Man and, and Susanna Scott of this Parish Single Woman were married in this Church by Banns, this Tenth Day of October in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Ninety Four [...] in the Presence of John Spurgen and Elizabeth Oreton".
Note that an Elizabeth Scott had maried a Nathaniel Outing on 10 October 1793 at St Mary Magdalen, Mulbarton.
There are two marriages in the Norfolk Transcription Archive for marriages in St Faiths, Wroxham - Abraham Cowles and Mary Ann Cowles - I guess these are also children of James and Susan. Abraham was born in Mulbarton and Mary in Panxworth.
Her son William was christened in Panxworth or Spixworth in 1813.
Entry in the Norfolk Transcription Archive for the christening of James Cowles, son of James and Susan, in 1823 in St Faiths, Wroxham, gives his employment as a blacksmith.
In the 1841 census as Susanna Cowle (sic - in the index, Cowles on the original) aged 60 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Norfolk, and living with James Cowles (husband?) and William Cowle (son?) at Shottesham All Saints, Norfolk.
In the 1851 census as Susan Cowell (sic - on the original as well as in the index), aged 73, born in Mulbarton, Norfolk, and living with her husband (James Cowell) and son (William Cowell) at Street, Shotesham All Saints, Norfolk.
Her husband died in Shotesham in 1852.
Death of Susan Cowles in FreeBMD in October-December 1855 in Henstead (4b 119).
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935 for Susan Cowles on 30 December 1855 in Shotesham. "Page 63 Burials in the Parish of Shotesham All Saints in the County of Norfolk in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Five [...] Susan Cowles No. 503 of Newton on December 30 aged 79".
Mulbarton and Shotesham are either side of A140, seven miles SW of Norwich.
Susan Scott was my second great grandmother.
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