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5  Robert Cowgill, son of Bryan and Ellen Cowgill, bapt 16 Aug 1576, Thornton in Craven, bur 28 Dec 1652, St Mary's, Carleton in Craven, m Alice ____. Robert, described as a yeoman of Kirk Hill, had a will dated 27 Nov 1652, proved 12 Jul 1661 (York reg vol 43 fol 407) … "I bequeath unto Alice my now wife my old? (looks like “old” as below) lands during her natural life; and as touchinge the two Acres which I purchased of my brother William adjoining to the lands of John Hewitt (he was a witness to the will), I devise to my nephew Jonathan Cowgill and his heirs forever. And after the natural life of my said wife I give & bequeath unto Jonathan Cowgill aforesaid my foresaid old? (looks like “old” as above) lands for ever upon the condition hereafter mentioned. And as touchinge the two acres aforesaid my mind is that Jonathan aforesaid enter to the same immediately after the decease of me Robert Cowgill. And concerning the conditions before mentioned, my will and mind is that Jonathan aforesaid pay unto my Nephew Richard Cowgill 4 li (pounds); Item to Embrie my brother one pound; Item to Willim (sic) Cowgill of little Newton (in Long Preston), one pound; Item to Martin Cowgill one pound; to John Cowgill of Carleton one pound 9 sh 6d; to Joseph Cowgill one pound 9 sh 6d; to Bryan Cowgill clerk(?) 1 sh; to John Cowgill of Earbie one pound; to James Cowgill one pound; to Christopher Cowgill one pound; to William Cowgill of Carleton one pound; to Ambrose Cowgill one pound; to my nephew Robert Cowgill one pound; to Bryan Cowgill, shoemaker, one pound; to James Cowgill of Lothersden one pound; to Annisse? Cowgill one pound; to Gennett Cowgill one pound; to Marie Cowgill one pound; to Thomas Smith of Lothersden 1 sh; to William Smyth of shawhead 1 sh; to Barbarie Barret one shilling; to Marie Smith her sister one shilling; to my Nephew James Smith one shilling; to Barbara Cowgill my neece (sic) one pound fifteen shillings; to Margaret Cowgill her sister one pound; to Gennett Cowgill, widow, 10 sh; to Marie Cowgill, my neece 10 sh; to Bryan Cowgill brother of Richard aforesaid 6 sh 8d; to Christopher Cowgill 6 sh 8d; to Gennett Cowgill sister of Richard aforesaid 6 sh 8d. Alice & Jonathan joint execs.” Witnesses were John and William Hewitt and an illegible name.

 

    Note: why did it take so long to probate this will? Several problems arise in this will: Robert favors his nephew, Jonathan Cowgill (son of his deceased brother, Bartholomew), over his son Ambrose for some reason. Robert refers to his cousins, children of his uncle, James Cowgill, as his “neeces” (sic) and nephews. James, as one of the younger of grandfather Richard Cowgill’s children, may have seemed more brother than uncle. However, this poses the question as to whether “my brother William” is, in reality, Robert’s brother William or his uncle William, since his uncle William was even younger than his uncle James.

 

Child: known is - Ambrose

 

1  Ambrose Cowgill bapt 12 Apr 1612, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven, d 1677, m Grace _____, bur 13 May 1681, Carleton in Craven. Grace was appointed administrator of Ambrose’s estate 27 Oct 1677 (listed in Act Books fol 113; 5 Oct 1677). On 14 Jan 1639/40, at West Riding Court, Wetherbie, Ambrose (described as a laborer) was accused of stealing two sheep; he also made suit against a third party. Given the gap in birthdates between son John and son Robert, Grace may be a 2nd wife or there may be other children.

Children: known are – John, Robert, Anne, William, Margaret

 

1  John Cowgill bapt 1 Sep 1639, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven, bur 28 Jun 1699, Carleton in Craven, m(1) _____; m(2) 12 Jul 1692, Carleton in Craven, Agnes Noble. This is possibly one of the two John Cowgills listed on the Lady Day, 1672, Hearth Tax Lists for one hearth/chimney in Carleton in Craven, and one of the two John Cowgills on the 1696 Association Oath Rolls for Staincliffe Wapentake. Note: it is possible that this marriage and all or some of John's children listed below belong instead to the John Cowgill bapt 8 Jul 1640. Both apparently lived near Kirk Hill, and the parish clerk appeared to use the terms "of Kirk Hill" and "John Jun'r" to refer to either one as well as the John Cowgill bapt 27 Sep 1671.

Children: thought (see Note) to include - Elizabeth, John, Jonathan

 

1  Elizabeth Cowgill bapt 24 Mar 1669/70, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven. This is either the Elizabeth Cowgill of Carleton who m John Blackburn 4 Apr 1700, or she could be the Elizabeth Cowgill of Carleton who was bur at St Mary’s 12 Jan 1711/1712.

 

2  John Cowgill bapt 27 Sep 1671, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven, d before 1754 (when grandson John was referred to as “John, Jr”), m(1) 22 May 1686, Carleton in Craven, Ellen Johnson, bur 9 Mar 1703/4, Carleton in Craven; m(2) 1 Jun 1704, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, Elizabeth Balmfirth (also as Bamford). This John may be one of the two John Cowgills on the 1696 Association Oath Rolls for Staincliffe Wapentake. He is probably the John Cowgill mentioned in Edward Cowgill's will of 1702 as being in possession of a dwelling house of Edward's "situate in Carleton". John is described in early Kirkheaton parish register entries as “of Dalton”. His grandson, John Cowgill bapt 9 Feb 1733/4 (see below), was the subject of a 1771 order of removal back to Carleton by the Kirkheaton Overseers of the Poor. Note: it is possible, but unlikely, that this marriage and children belong to John’s father since this is a very young age for marriage. Joseph’s birth date may be the factor.   

Children: known are - Joseph, Mary (1st), Esther, Anne, Mary (2nd), Elizabeth, John, William, Henry

 

1  Joseph Cowgill (listed as “son of John Cowgill Jr”) bapt 11 Sep 1687, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven. No further information.

 

2  Mary Cowgill (1st) bapt 11 Aug 1688, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven, bur there 17 Dec 1688.

 

3  Esther Cowgill bapt 10 Apr 1692, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven. No further information.

 

4  Anne (or Hannah?) Cowgill bapt 25 Mar 1693, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven, bur there 19 Aug 1694.

 

5  Mary Cowgill (2nd) bapt 11 Aug 1695, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven, bur there 8 Sep 1696.

 

6  Elizabeth Cowgill bapt 19 Apr 1705, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton. No further information.

 

7  John Cowgill bapt 19 Feb 1706/7, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton, bur 5 Jul 1762, Kirkheaton, m(1) 10 Dec 1730, Kirkheaton, Alice Dawson, bur 31 Dec 1755; m(2) 30 Jan 1758, Kirkheaton, Ann Mallinson, “both of Heaton”, bapt 26 Sep 1722, St John the Baptist's, dau of John and Grace (Kilner) Mallinson. At marriage, John and Alice were described as “of this parish”. Ann is probably the An (sic) Cowgill who m 8 Sep 1765 at Kirkheaton to Luke Firth.

Children: known are – Isaac, John, Joseph, William, Abraham, Thomas, James, David

 

1  Isaac Cowgill bapt 10 Oct 1731, Kirkheaton, bur 23 May 1810, Kirkheaton (“Mr Isaac Cowgill of Heaton”), m 1 Mar 1764 (“Isaac Cowgill of Huddersfield”; Witnesses, Jno. Hall, Robert Clarkson), Hartshead, Dewsbury Parish, Mary Walker, bur 2 Aug 1813, age 81. Isaac was described in parish records as an innkeeper in Marsden. He is listed in The Manchester Directory beginning 1773 as an inn keeper food/drink, at the Spread Eagle, Front Salford, Manchester. Isaac must have retained contact with his old home as he is listed as a church warden at Kirkheaton for the years 1792/3, 1793/4, and 1797/8. Isaac left a will (1 Dec 1810; Will of Isaac Cowgill, Gentleman of Kirkheaton, Yorkshire. Proved in the Court of York. IR 26/433) in which he made bequests to wife Mary (goods etc at Manchester), sons Joseph, William, and Charles. Charles appeared to have no heirs at the time of writing - his share was to go to Joseph's heirs if he (Charles) remained childless.

Children: known are – Elizabeth, Sarah, Joseph, William, Charles, John

 

1  Elizabeth Cowgill bapt 14 Feb 1765, Kirkheaton, bur 24 May 1766, All Hallows, Almondbury.

 

2  Sarah Cowgill bapt 23 Oct 1766, Almondbury, bur 19 May 1767, All Hallows, Almondbury.

 

3  Joseph Cowgill bapt 18 Mar 1768, Almondbury, d 1813 (bur 31 May 1813, St Thomas, Pendleton), m 1 May 1794, Cathedral, Manchester, Dorothy Marsden, d 1849, dau of William and Ellen Marsden. Dorothy is probably the “Gentlewoman” listed in the Liverpool Directory for 1825.

Children: known are – John, Mary, Joseph, Ellen, Elizabeth, Sarah, Susan, Marsden

 

1  John Marsden Cowgill b 11 Feb 1795 (bapt 9 Mar 1795, St Peter's), Manchester, d 12 Nov 1856, m(1) 26 Apr 1824, Winwick, Ann Gordon, b ca 1796, d 9 Jan 1828 (from childbirth?); m(2) ??? (need cert) as her 2nd husband, Ann ????, b ca 1800, Newcastle upon Tyne. John shown as a brass founder, lodging with his mother, in 1841. Ann (2) had (at least) two daughters from a previous marriage, both named Isabella. She was lodging with them in 1841/1851. His will, dated 21 Oct 1857 (Vol 15 # 701-750, Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions), refers to him as “Gentleman of Edge Hill near Liverpool, Lancashire”.

Children: known are – Mary, Dorothy, Elizabeth

 

1  Mary Anne Cowgill b 9 Apr 1825 (bapt 3 May 1825, St Anne’s), Liverpool, m 5 Oct 1854, St Mary's, Walton on the Hill, Liverpool, Ralph Leigh Clare, b ca 1823, son of William Clare. Mary listed at a Ladies Boarding School in Cheshire in 1841. Ralph was a broker in Birkenhead in 1861.

 

2  Dorothy Cowgill b 21 Jul 1826 (bapt 21 Aug 1826, St Anne's, Liverpool), d 5 Apr 1834.

 

3  Elizabeth Cowgill b 1828, d 3 Jan 1828.

 

2  Mary Cowgill b ca 1797, m 4 Sep 1821, St Anne's, Richmond, Thomas Oldham of Doverdale, Worcester. Mary is a postulated child of Joseph's (need a birth cert). Witnesses on her marriage cert included all her presumed siblings. No further information.

 

3  Joseph Cowgill b 1797 (bapt 4 Sep 1797, St Thomas', Pendleton), bur 23 Mar 1800, age 2, Eccles.

 

4  Ellen Rich Cowgill bapt 10 Oct 1799, Eccles, d 11 Feb 1880. Ellen was an annuitant in Liverpool (Everton) in 1851 and Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, by 1861 as head of household. Her sisters lodged with her.

 

5  Elizabeth Cowgill bapt 21 Sep 1801, Eccles, d 23 Dec 1894, Leamington.

 

6  Sarah Cowgill b 14 Jan 1803 (bapt 14 Sep 1804, St Ann's, Manchester), d 24 Jan 1858.

 

7  Susan Cowgill b 13 Aug 1804 (bapt 14 Sep 1804, St Ann's, Manchester), d 21 Mar 1893. Susan lodged with sister Ellen (until her death) and sister Elizabeth.

 

8  Marsden Cowgill b 1806, bur 17 Oct 1806, age 4m, St Thomas', Pendleton (near Salford).

 

4  William Cowgill bapt 24 Dec 1769, Almondbury, probably the William Cowgill bur 23 Aug 1824, aged 54, at Holy Trinity, Wakefield. Notation is “of prison”.

 

5  Charles Cowgill bapt 6 Nov 1771, Almondbury, bur 10 Jul 1833, Kirkheaton, m 28 Jan 1796, Halifax, Phoebe Crowther, b ca 1769. Phoebe remarried, 12 Jan 1834, Southowram (Halifax), Mark Blackburn. Phoebe was widowed again by 1841.

Child: known is – William

 

1  William Cowgill bapt 9 Nov 1798, South Parade Wesleyan, Halifax (probably the same child bapt 1 Mar 1799 in the Halifax Church of England), bur 6 Feb 1805, age 6, South Parade Wesleyan (the will of Isaac Cowgill indicated Charles had no living heirs in 1810).

 

6  John Cowgill bapt 29 Aug 1773, Cathedral, Manchester. Is this the John Cowgill, “gentleman”, bur 18 Sep 1794, in the churchyard at Kingston, Jamaica?

 

2  John Cowgill bapt 9 Feb 1733/4, Kirkheaton, bur 11 Feb 1792, m 24 Oct 1754 (“both this parish with the consent of parents"), Kirkheaton, Grace Lifter of Colnbridge, bur 14 Aug 1811, Kirkheaton, “of Lepton”. John was referred to as “John Cowgill, junior,” in Kirkheaton Parish transcripts prior to his father’s death; later as John Cowgill “of Heaton”. His home at marriage was listed as Helm (Heaton?). John is mentioned in the West Yorkshire Court Order Books of 4 Oct 1770: "Upon the appeal of the churchwardens, overseers of the poor of the township of Carlton in the said Riding against an order under the hands and seals of Henry Wickham junior esquire and Henry Louith, clerk, two of his Majestie's justices of the peace for the said Riding, hearing date the thirteenth day of July last past made for the removal of John Cowgill and Grace his wife and Joseph, William, James, John, Hannah, and Thomas their children from the township of Kirkheaton in the said Riding to Carlton aforesaid, It is Ordered that the said appeal be respited till the next General Quarter Sessions of the peace to be held for the said Riding by adjournment at Wakefield." The Order of Removal was confirmed at the Quarter Sessions of 17 Jan 1771. Presumably John was returned to Carleton parish in accordance with the court order, although, if so, he soon returned to Kirkheaton.

Children: known are – Thomas (1st), Joseph, William, John, James, Hannah, Thomas (2nd), Mary, Charles, Abraham, Elizabeth, Sarah, George

 

1  Thomas Cowgill (1st) bapt 22 Nov 1754, Kirkheaton, bur 24 Nov 1754.

 

2  Joseph Cowgill bapt 29 Sep 1756, Kirkheaton, d 1842, Salford, m(1) 2 Aug 1781, Cathedral, Manchester, Rachel Schofield; m(2) 25 Apr 1799, Cathedral, Manchester, Elizabeth Crossley, d 1852 (bur 24 Oct 1852, age 84). This is probably the Joseph Cowgill listed as a merchant in Salford in directories of the 1790s. The 11 Dec 1810 edition of the Manchester Mercury contained an article concerning a commission of bankruptcy hearing of 19 Dec 1801 “awarded and issued forth against Joseph Cowgill of Manchester, merchant, dealer and chapman (trading with William Cowgill and James Bowman, of the Island of Jamaica) …”. This Joseph, or his cousin, son of Isaac (above)?

Children: known are – William, Elizabeth, Ursala, James, Mary, John, Hannah, Rachel, Joseph, George, Thomas

 

1  William Cowgill bapt 18 Nov 1781, Cathedral, Manchester, bur 16 Jun 1782, Sacred Trinity, Salford.

 

2  Elizabeth Cowgill bapt 30 Mar 1783, Cathedral, Manchester,

 

3  Ursala Cowgill bapt 28 Mar 1785, Cathedral, Manchester, bur (register has "Zillah") 11 Jan 1786, Sacred Trinity, Salford.

 

4  James Cowgill bapt 17 Dec 1786, Cathedral, Manchester, bur 28 Nov 1788, Sacred Trinity, Salford.

 

5  Mary Cowgill bapt 25 Oct 1789, Cathedral, Manchester, m 21 Feb 1811, St John's, Manchester, John Ryder, age 21, iron founder of Salford, by license (witnesses: William Burgess, Ann Franie(?)).

 

6  John Cowgill bapt 21 Aug 1796, Cathedral, Manchester. No further information.

 

7  Hannah Cowgill bapt 30 Nov 1800, Cathedral, Manchester,

 

8  Rachel Cowgill bapt 6 Mar 1803, Cathedral, Manchester, d 1876. Rachel is shown as a seamstress, single, in Salford in 1851 - 1871.

 

9  Joseph Cowgill bapt 8 Sep 1805, Cathedral, Manchester, d 1858 (need to verify with death cert). Joseph is noted as "unable to work" on the 1851 census.

 

10 George Cowgill b 13 Jul 1807 (bapt 2 Aug 1807, Cathedral, Manchester). No further information.

 

11 Thomas Cowgill b 25 Nov 1811 (bapt 29 Dec 1811, Cathedral, Manchester). No further information.

 

3  William Cowgill bapt 29 Sep 1759, Kirkheaton, bur 23 Feb 1825, Kirkheaton, m(1) 21 Apr 1783, Almondbury, Elizabeth "Betty" Miller, bur 8 Dec 1790; m(2) 12 Jul 1792, Kirkheaton, Mary Sheard, bur 29 Oct 1843, age 73, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton. This William Cowgill is probably the one who was a church warden for 1805/6, 1806/7, and 1807/8 at Kirkheaton parish church. William, as “William the Elder”, left a will (p340) probated Jun 1825. In it he mentions he holds a farm under Matthew Sheard in Lepton; his business was as clothier and shopkeeper; wife Mary; son Amos; dau Sarah, wife of James Woodworth of Manchester; dau Lucy, wife of Mr Snook; son Joseph; son Michael; son William; son John; son Isaac; and daus Elizabeth, Mary, and Hannah. Joseph Cowgill and Matthew Sheard co-execs. Mary’s will, dated 15 Jun 1842 (probated 16 Feb 1844; p29/30), “Mary Cowgill of Spring Grove in Lepton” mentions dau Mary, w of Joseph Senior; dau Hannah, w of Thomas Hudson; dau Elizabeth, deceased, was w of Joseph Senior; sons Michael Sheard, Edward, Joseph, William, John, and Isaac (the last four named were co-execs). Note: Mary mentions a son Edward in her will, not mentioned in William’s will. Did she mean grandson? This must be the William Cowgill, "cloth draper of Dalton", convicted (with two others) 22 Jan 1803 at Wakefield of wilfully and maliciously intimidated (name illegible, but something about business irregularities), and sentenced to two months hard labor in the House of Corrections at Wakefield.

Children: known are – Charles, Amos, Sarah, Lucy, James, John (1st), Elizabeth, Joseph, Michael, Ann, William, Mary, John (2nd), Isaac, Hannah

 

1  Charles Cowgill bapt 17 Aug 1783, Kirkheaton, bur 27 Aug 1783.

 

2  Amos Cowgill bapt 11 Jul 1784, Hopton Independent Church, Mirfield, bur 24 Jan 1841, age 56, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton, m 19 Aug 1813, Kirkheaton, Hannah Bentley, b ca 1788, bur 14 Apr 1857, age 68, St John the Baptist's. Amos was a clothier and weaver in Cowmes Bottom (Lepton).

Children: known are – John, Joseph, George, Betty, Ann, William (1st), Henry, William (2nd), Sally

 

1  John Cowgill bapt 26 Dec 1814, Kirkheaton, bur 7 Jun 1824, age 9&3/4y.

 

2  Joseph Cowgill b ca 1816 (bapt 17 Jul 1818), Kirkheaton, bur 14 Feb 1890, age 76, All Saints’, Nether Thong. By 1861 Joseph was a weaver in Lepton; listed as a shopkeeper and farmer of 10 acres in 1881. Sister Sarah lodged with him in 1861; brother William and wife in 1871.

 

3  George Cowgill bapt 31 May 1819, Kirkheaton, bur 12 Nov 1821, age 2&3/4y.

 

4  Betty Cowgill bapt 12 Nov 1821, Kirkheaton, bur 20 Jul 1823, age 2y.

 

5  Ann Cowgill bapt 27 Jun 1824, Kirkheaton, bur 7 Jan 1825, age 9m.

 

6  William Cowgill (1st) bapt 15 May 1826, Kirkheaton, bur 6 Mar 1827, age 1y.

 

7  Henry Cowgill b 20 Mar 1828 (bapt 26 May 1828), Kirkheaton, d 1914 (bur 29 Dec 1914), m 26 Nov 1855, Kirkheaton, Jane Lodge, b ca 1831, d 1908 (bur 6 Oct 1908). By 1861 Henry was a weaver in Lepton; later a grocer and “fancy weaver”; by 1881 a woolen weaver and farmer of 6 acres.

Children: known are – Mary, Hannah, William

 

1  Mary Anne Cowgill b 14 Sep 1854, Lepton, m 13 Jan 1877, St John’s, Lepton (Kirkheaton), John Brierley, b ca 1855. In 1881 John was a woolen mill worker in Lepton. Mary was widowed by 1891 when she was a lodger with her parents. Note: baptismal record states dau of Jane Lodge, a single woman of Cowmes Bottom, Lepton. Henry's natural dau, or adopted?

 

2  Hannah Cowgill b 20 Feb 1856, Lepton, bur 21 Jan 1858, age 1+, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton.

 

3  William Cowgill b 20 Feb 1858, Lepton, d 1924 (bur 4 Nov 1924), m 12 Apr 1879, St John’s, Lepton, Elizabeth Jessop, b ca 1857, d 1944. William was a laborer in Lepton.

Children: known are – Mary, Flory, William

 

1  Mary Jane Cowgill b 2 Sep 1879, Lepton, 27 Dec 1902, St John’s, Lepton, Wilson Fisher, b ca 1877, a miner.

 

2  Florry Cowgill b 13 Nov 1884, Kirkheaton, m 10 Apr 1909, St John’s, Lepton, Alfred John Bell, b ca 1887, a miner.

 

3  William Henry Cowgill b 2 Mar 1890, Kirkheaton, d 1975, m(1) 10 Sep 1919, Lepton, Sarah Hannah Brierley, b ca 1889, d 1922 (bur 14 Oct 1922, age 33); m(2) 1925, Laura Youel, b 1881, d 1960.

 

8  William Cowgill (2nd) b 8 Oct 1830 (bapt 12 Jul 1831), Kirkheaton, bur 20 Nov 1909, age 80, m 25 Dec 1860, Kirkheaton, Sarah Ann Sykes, b ca 1833, bur 28 Jul 1880, age 47, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton. By 1861 William was a weaver in Lepton.

 

9  Sarah “Sally” Cowgill b 5 Oct 1834 (bapt 8 Jun 1835), Kirkheaton, m 15 Oct 1855, Kirkheaton, Joah Armitage, b ca 1828. Sarah was a lodger with brother Joseph in 1861.

 

3  Sarah Cowgill b 23 Jul 1786 (bapt 18 Aug 1786, Hopton Independent Church, Mirfield), d before 1844 (not mentioned in her mother's will), m James Woodworth.

 

4  Lucy Cowgill bapt 24 May 1790, Kirkheaton, d before 1844 (not mentioned in her mother’s will), m ____ Snook.

 

5  James Cowgill bapt 27 Dec 1792, Kirkheaton, bur 3 Apr 1814, aged 21, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton.

 

6  John Cowgill (1st) bapt 6 Apr 1794, Kirkheaton, bur 7 Apr 1804.

 

7  Elizabeth Cowgill bapt 27 Nov 1796, Kirkheaton, d before 1829, m 9 Nov 1815, Kirkheaton, Joseph Senior (who remarried to Elizabeth’s sister, Mary, below), b ca 1796.

 

8  Joseph Cowgill bapt 9 Dec 1798, Kirkheaton, bur 27 Nov 1861, age 63, St John’s, Dewsbury, m 27 Jun 1824, St Peter’s, Leeds, Sarah Armitage, b ca 1804, bur 13 Jan 1858, age 56, St John’s. Joseph was described as a manufacturer of Cowmes (Lepton) on his early children’s birth records; by 1841 he was a grocer in Dewsbury.

Children: known are – Henry, James, Edward, William, Thomas, Sarah

 

1  Henry Cowgill b 22 Dec 1824 (bapt 27 Dec 1824), Kirkheaton, bur 14 Feb 1842, age 17, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton.

 

2  James Cowgill b 9 Jun 1826 (bapt 9 Jul 1826), Kirkheaton, d 1893, m 8 Feb 1853, Thornhill, Betty Senior, b ca 1828, d 15 Apr 1894. In 1851 James was a salesman in Manchester, lodging with cousins James (son of Elizabeth Cowgill, above?) and Mary Ann Senior; later as a salesman and merchant in Levenshulme and Didsbury (Manchester).

Children: known are – Mary, Joseph, Elizabeth, Sarah, Amelia, James, Edith, Betsy, Jessie, Frances

 

1  Mary Louisa Cowgill b 4 Dec 1853 (bapt 6 Jun 1854, All Saints), Manchester, d 1925. Louisa is shown as single, head of household, in Heaton Norris in 1901, in West Didsbury in 1911.

 

2  Joseph Henry “Harry” Cowgill b 1856 (bapt 18 May 1856, All Saints), Manchester, d 2 Apr 1928 (bur 4 Apr 1928, St Mary’s, Alderley), m 7 Oct 1891, Christ Church, West Didsbury (Manchester), Laura Annie Boyes, b ca 1858, d 5 Mar 1919.

Children: known are – James, Laura

 

1  James Edward Cowgill b 1895, Manchester, d 17 Mar 1963, m 1922, Elsie Sharples, b 4 Dec 1898, d 1972.

    Children: known are - Peter, Laura

 

1  Peter Edward Cowgill b 15 Feb 1925, d 1975, m 1959, St Peter's, Prestbury, Ann Barnshaw.

    Children: known are - Julie, Alison, Jennifer, Helen

 

2  Laura A. Cowgill b 1928, m 1951, Peter M. Rhodes.

 

2  Laura Edith Cowgill b 14 Dec 1896, Manchester, d 1979.

 

3  Elizabeth Ann Cowgill b 1858, Levenshulme (Manchester), m 6 Jun 1889, Manchester, Hugh Avery, b ca 1860. In 1891 Hugh was an umbrella materials agent in Manchester.

 

4  Sarah Emeline Cowgill b 1861, Manchester. Emeline is shown lodging with sister Louisa in 1901 and 1911.

 

5  Amelia Cowgill b 1864, d 1864.

 

6  James William Cowgill b 1865, Manchester, d 1944, m 10 Jun 1905, St Paul’s, Withington, Agnes Danson, b ca 1859, d 1941. James is shown lodging with sister Louisa in 1901, as a manufacturer’s agent in Withington in 1911.

 

7  Edith Eleanor Cowgill b 1867, d 1870.

 

8  Betsy Henrietta “Hetty” Cowgill b 1868, Manchester, m 1920, Sussex, Alfred Cooper.

 

9  Jessie Florence Cowgill b 1870, Manchester, d 1954. Jessie is probably the Jessie F. Cowgill, age 45, listed as a visitor in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1901.

 

10 Frances Gertrude Cowgill b 1872, Manchester, d 27 Jan 1932. In 1901 Frances is shown as lodging with sister Elizabeth and family. Later in Sussex.

 

3  Edward Armitage Cowgill b 27 Nov 1828 (bapt 4 Jan 1829), Kirkheaton, bur 21 Jun 1857, age 28, St John’s, Dewsbury.

 

4  William Cowgill b 28 Jun 1832 (bapt 22 Jul 1832), Kirkheaton, d 1913, m 15 Oct 1874, Cathedral, Manchester, Mary Elizabeth Coates, b ca 1845, d 1913. William was a joiner residing with his father in 1861. By 1871 he was in Manchester as a dealer in underclothing and shirt maker. Brother Thomas and family lodged with him that year.

Children: known are – Joseph, Frank, Helen

 

1  Joseph William Cowgill b 1880, Manchester, d 1948, m 1914, Mary E. Clayton, b ca 1886, d 1937.

Child: known is - Doris

 

1  Doris Cowgill b 1915

 

2  Frank Cowgill b 1881, Manchester, d 5 Apr 1954, m 1915, Edith Bushell, b 1894; div (Edith remarried 1926, Henry Collinson).

       Child: known is - Doris

 

1  Doris Cowgill b 1916

 

3  Helen Cowgill b 1885, Manchester, d 1886.

 

5  Thomas Cowgill b 12 Oct 1834 (bapt 9 Nov 1834), Kirkheaton, d 1895, Romiley, Cheshire, m 1858, Dewsbury, Mary Dickinson, b ca 1834, d 1903. By 1861 Thomas was a joiner in Thornhill. In 1871 he was in Manchester lodging with brother William; in Pendlebury by 1881; in Rusholme (Manchester) in 1891. In 1901 Mary was in Romiley lodging with dau Annie and family.

Children: known are – Frederick, William, Mary, Horace, James, Annie

 

1  Frederick Armitage Cowgill b 1859, Ecclesfield, bur 9 Jun 1913 (Bredbury, Cheshire), m 29 Aug 1883, St Luke's, Salford, Mary Ann Snelson, b ca 1857, d 1929, dau of George Snelson. In 1891 Frederick was in Romiley, Cheshire, as a woven wire spring mattress weaver.

Children: known are – Harry, Frederick, Horace, George, Louisa, Tom, Nellie, Elizabeth

 

1  Harry Cowgill b 1883, d 1884.

 

2  Fred Cowgill b 1885 (bapt 22 Mar 1885), Manchester, d 1968, m 1908, St Chad’s, Amelia Brooks, b ca 1880, bur 19 Aug 1938. In 1911 Fred was a warehouseman, bleach works, in Woodley, Cheshire.

Children: known are - Hilda, Horace

 

1  Hilda Cowgill b and d 1909.

 

2  Horace Cowgill b Aug 1911, d 1971, m 1935, Elsie Hulme, b 9 Dec 1911, d 1995.

    Child: known is - Derek

 

       1  Derek Cowgill b 20 Jul 1938, d 2003, m(1) 1958, Ann Ethel Cowell; div (Ann remarried 1964, Arthur Burns); m(2) 1967, Margaret Cocks/Booth; m(3) 1982, Selby, Cynthia A. Cariss

 

3  Horace Cowgill b 1887, Manchester, d 1924, m 14 Aug 1915, St Chad’s, Florence Maud Lloyd.

Child: known is - Harry

 

1  Harry Armitage Cowgill b 1919, m 1974, Muriel Mary Holbrook, b 4 Mar 1922, d 1991.

 

4  George Cowgill b 20 Nov 1889, Romiley, d 1976, m(1) 31 Aug 1912, St Chad’s, Emily Goddard, b ca 1881, d 1936; m(2) 1940, Nora Kenyon Bowker, b 21 Jul 1891, d 1981.

    Child: known is - Frederick

 

1  Frederick William Norman Cowgill b 3 Sep 1916, d 7 Jan 2006, m 1947, Sylvia Mary Davies, b 4 Jan 1922, d 1998.

    Child: known is - David

 

5  Louisa Cowgill b 1891, Romiley, m 24 Jul 1920, St Chad's, George Wood.

 

6  Tom Cowgill b 1894, Romiley, d 1895.

 

7  Nellie Cowgill b 1896, Romiley, m 14 Feb 1931, William Senior.

 

8 Elizabeth Cowgill b 1898, Romiley, d 1928.

 

2  William Cowgill b 1861, Dewsbury, bur 14 Dec 1862, St Michael’s.

 

3  Mary Louisa Cowgill b 1863 (bapt 1 Mar 1863, St Michael’s), bur 9 Aug 1863, St Michael’s.

 

4  Horace Cowgill b 1864, Thornhill, d 1908, Romiley, m 12 Dec 1887, St Luke's, Salford, Margaret Atherton, b ca 1867, d 13 Dec 1941, dau of William Atherton. By 1891 Horace was in Romiley as a joiner, spring mattress maker.

Children: known are – Thomas, Ethel, Annie, James

 

1  Thomas Cowgill b 1888, Manchester, bur 18 Jun 1892, St Chad’s, Romiley.

 

2  Ethel Cowgill b 2 Dec 1889 (bapt 5 Jan 1890), Romiley

 

3  Annie Cowgill b 1891, Romiley, m 27 Apr 1927, St Chad's, John Bradbury.

 

4  James Edward Cowgill b 1893, bur 20 May 1897, St Chad’s, Romiley.

 

5  James Edward Cowgill b 28 Aug 1866 (baptismal record has 1867), Hattercliffe(?), Sheffield, d 1888, Salford.

 

6  Annie Elizabeth Cowgill b 1870 (bapt 4 Jan 1871, Christ Church, Bradford, Lancashire), Manchester, m 1890, St Peter’s, Levenshulme, Firth Hampson Blackburn, b ca 1868. Annie and Firth were lodging with her parents in 1891.

 

6  Sarah Ann Cowgill b ca 1838, Dewsbury, d 1893. In 1871 Sarah was shown lodging with brother James in Manchester; with brother Thomas in 1881; listed as an inmate at the Salford Union Infirmary in 1891.

 

9  Michael Sheard Cowgill bapt 9 Nov 1800, Kirkheaton, bur 22 Aug 1841, age 40, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton, m 5 Jun 1838, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, Sarah Ann Collinson, dau of Abraham Collinson. An 1841 Manchester directory lists Michael as a fent dealer there near brother John. Sarah Ann remarried in 1844 to William Marsland.

Children: known are – Michael, Edward

 

1  Michael Cowgill b and d 1838, Kirkheaton? (Huddersfield Civil Dist) (need birth/death certs to verify).

 

2  Edward Cowgill b 1840 (bapt 8 Mar 1840, St Paul's) Manchester, bur 4 Aug 1847, age 7, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton. Edward died by drowning after falling into the Huddersfield canal.

 

10 Ann Cowgill bapt 16 Jan 1803, Kirkheaton, bur 25 May 1808.

 

11 William Cowgill bapt 6 Jan 1805, Kirkheaton, d 5 Mar 1886, Devon, m 16 Jun 1842, Cathedral, Manchester, Louisa Maulton, b ca 1821, d 1899. An 1841 Manchester directory lists William as a fent dealer there with brother John; a cotton merchant in Manchester by 1851 (on census; city directories list him as a fent dealer with brother John, with residence in Old Trafford); in Sussex by 1871; in Devon by 1881.

Child: known is - Elizabeth

 

1  Elizabeth Ann Cowgill b 1842 (bapt 26 Feb 1843), Manchester, m 1862, St Thomas, Old Trafford, Manchester, to Francis Pershouse, b ca 1842. In 1871 Francis was a railway “dividends” in Sussex.

 

12 Mary Cowgill bapt 7 Dec 1806, Kirkheaton, d 1840s, m 19 Apr 1829, Kirkheaton, as his 2nd wife (her sister Elizabeth Cowgill was his first), Joseph Senior, b ca 1792, d 1840s. Joseph was a farmer and postmaster in Lepton. They had a son, Joseph Cowgill Senior, b 1845, d 1906, and a grandson Joseph Cowgill Winstanley Senior, b ca 1900. Mary's brother Isaac was listed as a lodger in 1841 (also listed at his mother's).

 

13 John Cowgill (2nd) b 27 Dec 1808 (bapt 22 Jan 1809), Kirkheaton, d 1851, m(1) 16 Jul 1835, Cathedral, Manchester, Sarah Maulton, d 7 Dec 1844; m(2) 16 Sep 1846, Cathedral, Manchester, Mary Ann Clemson, b ca 1827, d 2 Sep 1879. John shown as a manufacturer in Manchester in 1841 (Louisa Maulton, later his sister-in-law, was a lodger), as a “cotton merchant of Cheetham near Manchester” in his will probated 13 Jun 1851 (PROB 11/2134 - Vol: 10 Quire: 451-500). He made bequests to “my dear wife Mary Ann Cowgill the legacy a sum of one hundred pounds to be paid her immediately for her own benefit; also all my store of wines and spirits. I give unto my brother and partner William Cowgill of Manchester, cotton merchant, and Roger Groom of Manchester, manufacturer, (most of the contents) of my dwelling house. Shall permit my said wife the use & enjoy the same for her natural life ... Inventory by William Cowgill and Roger Groom ...”. Mary Ann and children are shown lodging with her brother in Little Lever in 1861; they were back in Salford by 1871. (Was Mary Ann’s brother Joseph the father of Cowgill Clemson, b and d 1861? He is shown as a widower on later censuses. Another brother, John Clemson, had a dau Frances Cowgill Clemson, b 1862).                   

Children: known are – Elizabeth, William, Mary, James, John, Fanny, William, Harry

 

1  Elizabeth Cowgill b 4 May 1836 (bapt 20 Jun 1836, Cathedral, Manchester), d 1937 (bur 11 May 1837, Rusholme Road Cem., Chorlton-on-Medlock, age 1y, measles).

 

2  William Henry Cowgill b 1838 (bapt 27 May 1838, St Paul's), Manchester, d 1842 (bur 18 Dec 1842, Rusholme Road Cem., Chorlton-on-Medlock), age 5m, inflammation of throat.

 

3  Mary Anne Cowgill b 1840 (bapt 16 Aug 1840, St Paul's), Manchester, m 10 Jan 1866, St Anne & St Agnes', London, Washington Irving, b ca 1841, son of Nathaniel Irving. With her mother in 1861; Washington was a cotton merchant in Manchester by 1881.

 

4  James Cowgill b 1842 (bapt 2 Oct 1842, St Paul’s), Manchester, d 1844.

 

5  John William Cowgill b 1844, Manchester, d 1851 (bur 19 Mar 1851, Rusholme Road Cem., Chorlton-on-Medlock, age 7, Cause of Death: Gastric fever.


6  Fanny Eliza Cowgill b 8 Jul 1847 (bapt 26 Aug 1847, St Paul’s), Manchester, d 1848.

 

7  William Clemson Cowgill b 18 Sep 1848 (bapt 13 Dec 1848, Cathedral), Manchester, d 3 Mar 1927, m 1882, Kendal, Westmoreland, Alice Weston, b ca 1862, d 1915. William was a woolen cloth merchant in Barton upon Irwell in 1881; in Stockport, Cheshire, as a merchant by 1901; later in Glamorganshire, Wales.

Children: known are – Mary, Eleanor

 

1  Mary Dorothea Cowgill b 30 May 1883, Eccles (Manchester), m 1914, Glamorganshire, John W. Davison. Mary, as Dorothea M., was at St Michaels School in Sussex in 1901.

 

2  Eleanor Ciceley Cowgill b 1887, Eccles (Manchester), d 1969.

 

8  Harry Cowgill b 1850 (bapt 15 Oct 1850, Cathedral), Manchester, d 7 Sep 1938, m(1) 25 Sep 1884, St Alban's, Cheetwood, Emma Bradbury, b 1857, bur 17 Jun 1896, age 39, St Luke’s, Shire Oaks; m(2) 10 Jul 1901, Agnes Winifred Boyce, b 1879, d 13 Apr 1932. In 1851 Harry is shown as lodging with an uncle John Whittaker; with his mother in 1861; as an Oxford student in 1871; as a curate assistant in Newton Heath in 1881; as a clerk in holy orders in St Alkmund, Derbyshire in 1891; by 1892 in Shire Oaks, Nottinghamshire, as a Church of England clergyman. The Oxford Alumni Listing has "Rev Harry, 2s, John, of Manchester, gent., ORIEL COLL., matric 13 Apr 1869, aged 19; B.A. 1872, M.A. 1876". Obit has Vicar of Shireoaks, Worksop, for 36 years. Son John Steven emigrated to Canada (see link).

Children: known are – John C, John O, John V, Mary, Miriam, John E, John Steven, John I, John F, John W F, John W A, John H, Hester

 

1  John Cyprian Cowgill b 26 Sep 1885, Derby, d 1969. In 1901 John was at The School Durham at Crossgate, Durham. He was a missionary in India in the 1950s.

 

2  John Oswald Julian Cowgill b 27 Feb 1887, Derby, d 1971. In 1901 John was at St John's College, Hurstpierpoint; at home in 1911 as a black and white artist.

 

3  John Vincent Cowgill b 1888, Derby, d 16 Oct 1959, Harrogate, m 2 Jan 1934, Tamworth Parish Church (by Rev John E. Cowgill), Lillian Josephine Alkin, b 1903, d 13 Feb 1942, age 39, Japan, dau of John and Edith Atkin. In 1901 John was a student at St Cuthberts College, Worksop; at marriage he was described as Malayan Civil Service. Lillian is listed as among civilian war dead, bur H.M.S. "GIANG BEE".

      Children: known are - dau, Thomas

 

1  dau Cowgill b and d 1935.

 

2  Thomas Cowgill b 1935, d 1937. 

 

4  Mary Elizabeth Edmunda Cowgill b 20 Nov 1889, Derby, d Oct 1984, age 94.

 

5  Miriam Agnes Cowgill b 22 Jan 1891, Derby, d 1974. In 1901 Miriam was lodging with clergyman Wilfred Boyce in Hampshire; at home in 1911.

 

6  John Edward Cowgill b 20 Jun 1892, Shire Oaks, d 1970, m 1920, Katherine Fogg-Elliot, b 24 Dec 1885, d 1975.

    Children: known are - Mary, John, Julia, Katherine

 

1  Mary Silvia Cowgill b 1922, d 1987, m 1949, Cambrigeshire, David A. S. Addington, d 1990.

 

2  John Anthony Cowgill b 16 Nov 1923, d 1995, m 1952, Hampshire, Sheelagh Elizabeth Turbett, b 8 Jul 1929, d 2001.

    Children: known are - Jane, Elizabeth, Juliet, Sophie

 

3  Julia Mary Cowgill b 1926, d 2014, m 1948, Cambrigeshire, Stephen Michael O. Howe, d 1994.

 

4  Katherine Mary Cowgill b 1929, m 1949, Cambrigeshire, Peter Rawsthorne Procter.

 

John Steven Noel Cowgill (see link).

 

8  John Ignatius William Cowgill b 1 Feb 1895, Shire Oaks, d 8 Feb 1946 of an accidental drowning in Rhodesia, m Lorna ____. In 1901 John, with sister Miriam, was lodging with clergyman Wilfred Boyce in Hampshire. His obit describes him as a Major, M. C., Native Department, Southern Rhodesia.

   Children: known are - Peter, Della, Anthony.

 

9  John Felix Cowgill b 11 Jun 1903, Shire Oaks, d 1991, m 15 Nov 1930, Delhi, Bengal, India, Mary Alexander Wares, b 6 Oct 1909, d 1999, dau of Donald Wares. In 1933, John Felix is listed in India in the Secretariat for India, & Bengal Police Dept, & Indian Police Service. John arrived in the US 2 Dec 1941. His arrival contact was listed as dau Comanhate. Children: known are - Katherine, John

 

10 John William Francis Douglas Cowgill b 10 Jan 1905, Shire Oaks, d 1987, m 1941, Margaret Ogle, b 17 Apr 1914, d 1993.

     Children: known are - Barbara, twin, twin

 

11 John Wilfred Alban Cowgill b 17 Jun 1906, Shire Oaks, d Feb 1991, age 84, m 1949, Jean Angela Minta, b 1927, d 2007. John was curate at St Matthew and St Cuthbert's in Worksop from 1929.

     Child: known is - John

 

12 John Harry Christopher Cowgill b 22 Dec 1907, Shire Oaks, d 1982, m(1) 18 Oct 1930, Darjeeling, Bengal, India, Lily Iris Thomson, b 1910, dau of Thomas Albert Thomson; m(2) 1962, Amy Elizabeth Cooper, b 16 Nov 1915, d 2000. In 1933 John Harry is listed in India in the Bengal Police Dept, & Indian Police Service.

   Children: known are - Timothy, Christopher

 

13 Hester Mary Winifred Cowgill b 8 Jan 1910, Shire Oaks, d 1975.

 

14 Isaac Cowgill b 2 Jul 1811 (bapt 18 Aug 1811), Kirkheaton, d 28 Jul 1891 (bur 31 Jul 1891, age 80, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton), m 21 Jun 1842, Wakefield Civil Dist, Sarah Miller, b ca 1814, bur 8 Jul 1891, age 79, St John the Baptist's. In 1851 Isaac is shown as a farmer of 18 acres at Spring Grove in Lepton.

Child: known is - Elizabeth

 

1  Elizabeth Cowgill b 13 Sep 1842, Lepton, m 12 Nov 1884, Kirkheaton, Joe Sharp, b ca 1852. In 1891, Joe was a chartered accountant in Kirkburton.

 

15 Hannah Cowgill bapt 13 Jun 1813, Kirkheaton, m 24 Jun 1838, Kirkheaton, Thomas Hudson, b ca 1813. Thomas was a butcher in Kirkheaton.

 

4  John Cowgill bapt 30 Jul 1762, Kirkheaton, bur 8 Mar 1835, aged 76, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton, m(1) ????; m(2) 20 Sep 1796, Kirkheaton (“both this parish”), Maria Broadbent, bur 19 Dec 1838, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton, aged 76. John was described as a cobbler of Thickhollins in the mid 1780s; at burial as “of Heaton”. For some reason, John was the only nephew or niece of this family left without a bequest in his uncle, James Cowgill’s, will. Note: part of this line (except for son Isaac) may not be Cowgill – names in parish registers, census records, and UK vital statistics vary over the years and include Cowdill/Cowdell and Coldwell as well as Cowgill. There apparently were families (and a placename of Coldwell) by that surname in that area (DNA would clear this up). Note 2: there was a John Coldwell, bapt 3 Jan 1756, Almondbury, son of James Coldwell.

Children: known are - James, George, John, Hannah, Isaac

 

1  James Cowgill bapt 24 Aug 1782, Almondbury (as Coldwell), bur 30 May 1854, age 72, St Bartholomew's, Meltham (as Cowgill on death certs), m Mary ___, bur 11 Dec 1853, age 82, St Bartholomew's. James was a cotton spinner in Royd Green, Meltham, by 1841. This must be the James Cowgill mentioned in Yorkshire Court Order Books 7 Jan 1835: "Whereas James Cowgill was lately committed to the House of Corrections kept for the said Riding charged with assaulting at Almondbury one Joseph Dean, and there being no prosecution, It is Ordered that the said James Cowgill be immediately discharged from the said House of Corrections and forthwith suffered to go at large".

 

2  George Cowgill bapt 17 Apr 1785, St Bartholomew's, Meltham, bur 17 Apr 1856, age 71, St Bartholomew’s, m 10 Feb 1812 (or 1811?), Almondbury, Sally Taylor, b ca 1782, bur 18 Jun 1839, aged 57, St Bartholomew’s. George was a cotton spinner in Meltham.

Children: known are – Mary, Hannah, John, James, Charles, Joseph, George, Henry

 

1  Mary Cowgill b 9 Dec 1811 (bapt 29 Mar 1812, St Bartholomew’s), Meltham, bur 7 Aug 1840, aged 28, St Bartholomew’s.

 

2  Hannah Cowgill bapt 16 May 1813, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham. Not with her family in 1841; no further information.

 

3  John Cowgill bapt 30 Apr 1815, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, bur 14 Jul 1846.

 

4  James Cowgill bapt 23 Mar 1817, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, bur 15 May 1817, aged 8w, St Bartholomew’s.

 

5  Charles Cowgill bapt 21 Jun 1818, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, bur 28 Jun 1818, aged 14d, St Bartholomew’s.

 

6  Joseph Cowgill bapt 5 Sep 1821, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, bur 9 Sep 1821, aged 4d, St Bartholomew’s.

 

7  George Cowgill bapt 18 Aug 1822, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, bur 24 Dec 1822, aged 20w, St Bartholomew’s.

 

8  Henry Cowgill bapt 6 Jan 1824, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, d 9 Mar 1892, m 13 Jun 1848, All Hallows’, Almondbury, Lavina Sanderson, b ca 1820, d 1878 (bur 2 Jan 1879). Henry was a cotton spinner in Meltham; in Hipperholme with Brighouse by 1871.

Children: known are – Sally, Hannah, Allen, Charlotte, Frederick

 

1  Sally (Sarah) Cowgill b 1848, Meltham, m 21 Dec 1872, St John the Baptist's, Halifax, Thomas Tranter, b ca 1846. Thomas was a carpet weaver in Hipperholm in 1891.

 

2  Hannah Cowgill b 1850, Meltham, m 1870, Halifax Civil District, James Crossley, b ca 1850. James was a carpet weaver in Hipperholm in 1871.

 

3  Allen Cowgill b 1855 (bapt 11 Mar 1855, St Bartholomew’s), Meltham, d 1878 (bur 1 Jun 1878).

 

4  Charlotte Cowgill b 1857 (bapt 6 Sep 1857, St Bartholomew’s), Meltham, m 1878, Halifax Civil District, Edmund Day, b ca 1855. Charlotte and Edmund were lodging with her father in 1881.

 

5  Frederick Cowgill b 1859, Meltham. Frederick is shown as a stone delver lodging with his father in 1881. No further information.

 

3  John Cowgill bapt 6 Jan 1787, St Bartholomew's, Meltham, bur 27 Jul 1861, age 74, St Bartholomew's, m 2 Apr 1809, Almondbury, Sarah Battye, b ca 1787, bur 28 Apr 1856, age 66. John was a clothier, later a laborer in Meltham (by 1841); a store deliveryman by 1851. In 1851 married daughter Hannah and two Waterhouse grandchildren were lodging with him; Hannah and grandson Dennison were with him in 1861.

Children: known are – George, Betty, Jonas, Charles, Hannah, Maria, John, James, Sarah

 

1  George Cowgill b 27 Oct 1809 (bapt 7 Jan 1810, St Bartholomew’s), Meltham, d 1894, m 11 Sep 1831, Almondbury, Mary Sanderson, b ca 1806, bur 3 Nov 1883, age 77, St Bartholomew’s. George was a woolen hand loom weaver and, later, a general laborer in Meltham. He is listed as “Coldwell” on the 1881 census.

Children: known are – Amber, Frederick, Hannah, Maria, Zebulon, Esther (?)

 

1  Amber Cowgill, bur 24 Feb 1833 (as Coughill). Parish record has infant of Hey, Meltham.

 

2  Frederick Cowgill bapt 21 Mar 1835, bur 14 Jan 1838, aged 2, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham.

 

3  Hannah Cowgill b 1837 (bapt 25 Aug 1837, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham), Meltham, m 23 Jun 1861 (as Cowdill), St Bartholomew’s, Joseph Ranfield, b ca 1840. In 1871 Joseph was a woolen spinner in Meltham.

 

4  Maria Cowgill b 1841, Meltham, bur 17 Sep 1854.

 

5  Zebulon Cowgill b 1844 (bapt 28 Sep 1844, St Bartholomew's, Meltham), Meltham, d 1917, m 23 Dec 1871, Holy Trinity, South Crosland, Elizabeth Hirst, b ca 1850, d 18 Oct 1931. Zebulon was a wood bobbin turner in Meltham.

Children: known are – Sarah, George, Eldred, Miriam

 

1  Sarah Cowgill b 24 May 1873 (bapt 22 Jun 1873, St Bartholomew's), Meltham, d 1943, Camperdown, Victoria, Australia, m 31 May 1900, St Bartholomew’s, Francis Pickles, b ca 1873. Francis was a silk dresser in Meltham in 1901.

 

2  George Cowgill b 1 Sep 1875 (bapt 3 Oct 1875, St Bartholomew's), Meltham, d 29 Jun 1940, Southport, m 2 May 1903, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, Mary Jane Taylor, b ca 1880, d 1949. At home in 1901; in Disley, Derbyshire in 1911.

Child: known is - Stanley

 

1  Stanley Cowgill b 1907, Derbyshire, d 1956, m 1934, St Mary's, Disley, Ivy Allen, b 13 Sep 1911, d 1999.

    Child: known is - Patricia

 

3  Eldred Cowgill b 27 Feb 1878, Meltham, d 1921, m 1906, Barnsley, Gladys Key, b 1890. Eldred was a coal miner in Elsecar in 1911. Gladys remarried in 1924, Alfred Pells.

Children: known are – Norman, George, Jane, Leslie, Richard, Ernest

 

1  Norman Key Cowgill b 1906, Barnsley

 

2  George Cowgill b 1907, Barnsley, d 1957, m 1931, Kathleen Millicent Birks, b 11 Oct 1907, d 1978.

    Child: known is - Ronald

 

    1  Ronald Arthur Cowgill b 1932, d 1996, m 1957 Cicely A. Brook, b 1936.

        Child: known is - Adele.

 

3  Jane Cowgill b 1910, m 1942, Harold Sheldon.

 

4  Leslie Cowgill b 1912, Barnsley, d 1939.

 

5  Richard Cowgill b 7 May 1915, Barnsley, d 1994, m(1) 2 Jan 1943, St John's, Carlton in Lindrick, Mildred Mary Jackson, b ca 1919, d 1945; m(2) 1949, Bessie Hall. Richard described as a miner in 1943.

    Children: known are - David, Helen, Richard, Ian, Jayne

 

6  Ernest Cowgill b 1919, Barnsley, d 1921.

 

4  Miriam Cowgill b 14 Mar 1880, Meltham, m 20 Aug 1904, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, Arthur Holmes, b ca 1877, a machinist.

 

6  Esther Cowgill b 1846, bur 17 Mar 1847, St Bartholomew's, aged 3m. Note: need birth cert to verify.

 

2  Betty Cowgill b 19 Dec 1811 (bapt 29 Mar 1812, St Bartholomew’s), Meltham, probably the Elizabeth Coldhill who m 16 Jan 1831, William Waterhouse, b ca 1806. William was a clothier, later a mason’s helper, in Meltham. Two of their children were lodgers with their Cowgill grandparents in 1851.

 

3  Jonas Cowgill bapt 12 Dec 1813 (as Cowdill), St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, bur 3 Jan 1869, age 56, St Bartholomew’s, m 7 Jun 1835, Almondbury (as Coldwell), Hannah “Ann” Wild, b ca 1816, bur 27 Dec 1868, age 54, St Bartholomew’s. Jonas was a slubber in Meltham; in Huddersfield by 1851; in Almondbury by 1861.

Children: known are – Sarah, James, Jane, Phebe, William, Mary, Emma, Janet, Christiana, Allen, Jonas, Adam

 

1  Sarah “Sally” Cowgill bapt 9 Aug 1835, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, m 31 May 1857, Huddersfield, William Tolson, b ca 1832, a cloth miller. Note: the marriage record states Sarah's father's forename was George.

 

2  James Cowgill bapt 9 Mar 1837 (as Cowdill), St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, bur 23 Mar 1837.

 

3  Jane Cowgill bapt 22 Apr 1838, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, bur 19 Jun 1838.

 

4  Phebe (also as Phoebe) Cowgill b 1839 (bapt 1 Sep 1839, St Bartholomew’s), Meltham, m 1858, John William Waterworth, b ca 1837. John was a boot closer in Huddersfield in 1861. Sister Emma Jane was a lodger with the family that year.

 

5  William Henry Cowgill, bur 11 Apr 1842, age 4m, St Bartholomew’s.

 

6  Mary Ann Cowgill bapt 23 Mar 1845, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, m 1864, ??? (need marriage cert to identify).

 

7  Emma Jane Cowgill bapt 5 Sep 1847, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, m 1869, Joseph Sykes, b ca 1845. In 1871 Joseph was an engine driver in Lockwood.

 

8  Janet (Jennette) Cowgill (birth record as Coldhill, baptism as Cowgill) b 1849, Huddersfield, bur 14 Jan 1850, aged 7m, Holy Trinity.

 

9  Christiana Cowgill b 1851, Huddersfield, m 1870, William Henry Hirst.

 

10 Allen Cowgill b 1854 (as Coldwell), bur 11 Dec 1855 (as Cowdill), St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, age 18m.

 

11 Jonas Cowgill (as Cowdill) b 1856 (bapt at Meltham 19 Oct 1856, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham), Huddersfield, bur 23 Feb 1857, age 21w, St Bartholomew’s.

 

12 Adam Cowgill (as Coldhill) b 1860 (bapt 19 Feb 1860 as Cowdill, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham), Almondbury, bur 20 Aug 1861 (as Cowgill), age 19m, St Bartholomew’s.

 

4  Charles Cowgill bapt 8 Oct 1815, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, d 1850s, m 4 Jun 1838 (as Coldhill), St Bartholomew's, Hannah Harling, b ca 1813, d 3 Mar 1886, dau of William Harling. Charles was a joiner in Meltham in 1841; in Honley by 1851 (listed there as a wheelwright, Charles Cowgill, in 1853). Note: There is a problem with this line (dna testing would verify!) – Charles is listed as Cowgill in 1841, Cowdill in 1851, and the family is subsequently listed as Coldwell.

Children: known are – Wright, James, Emma, Ann, Maria, Law, Peace, Leah

 

1  Wright Cowgill/Coldwell b 1838 (bapt 15 Jun 1838, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham), Meltham, d 13 May 1897, m(1) 28 Aug 1859, Honley, Sarah Ann Sanderson, b ca 1837, d 14 Sep 1889; m(2) 1890, Sarah Glassjack, b ca 1833, d 16 May 1891. Wright was a carpenter in Honley.

Children: known are – Charles, Annie, Sarah, Florence, Fred, Hannah, Frank

 

1  Charles Coldwell b 1861, Honley, d 5 Oct 1926, m 1882, Mary Elizabeth Sanderson, b ca 1865, d 29 May 1920. Charles was a wheelwright in Honley.

Children: known are – Edith, Lily

 

1  Edith Coldwell b 1884, Honley, m 1911, Albert Barker, b ca 1888.

 

2  Lily Coldwell b 1886, Honley, m 1908, Norris Sykes, b ca 1885.

 

2  Annie Coldwell b 1863, Honley, m 1882, Henry Russell, b ca 1861. In 1891 Henry was a pattern weaver in Honley.

 

3  Sarah Coldwell b 1866, Honley, m 1888, Arthur Boothroyd, b ca 1860. In 1891 Arthur was a worsted weaver in Honley.

 

4  Florence Coldwell b 1869, Honley, m 1890, William Arthur Warrington, b ca 1869. In 1891 William was a woolen clth warper in Honley.

 

5  Fred Coldwell b 1873, Honley, d 1941, m 1901, Sarah Brook, b ca 1865. Fred was a blacksmith in Huddersfield.

Child: known is – Cora

 

1  Cora Gladman Coldwell b 1901, Honley

 

6  Hannah Coldwell bapt 26 Sep 1875, Honley, d 21 Dec 1876, age 16m.

 

7  Frank Coldwell b 1880, Honley, d 1953, m 1910, Annie Sykes, b ca 1890. Frank was a coach painter in Huddersfield in 1911.

Child: known is - Hubert

 

1  Hubert Wright Coldwell b 1911, Honley

 

2  James Cowgill/Coldwell b 1840 (bapt 29 Oct 1840, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham), Meltham, d 7 Jun 1875, m 1861, Elizabeth Ann Robinson, b ca 1842, d 27 Dec 1897. James was a wheelwright in Honley.

Children: known are – Ada, Harry, Clara, Ellen, Tom, Joe

 

1  Ada Coldwell b 1861, m 1886, Sam Green, b ca 1857. Sam was a stone merchant in Honley.

 

2  Harry Coldwell b 1866, d 1931, m 1899, Annice Kenworthy, b ca 1868. Harry was a wheelwright in Honley. Note: the 1911 census states Annie had two children, one living.

Child: known is - John

 

1  John Coldwell b 1897, Honley

 

3  Clara Coldwell b 1868, Honley, d 13 Feb 1885.

 

4  Ellen Coldwell b 1870, Honley,

 

5  Tom Coldwell b 1873, d 1951, m 1898, Frances Holdroyd, b ca 1876. Tom was a worsted pattern weaver in Honley. Note: the 1911 census states Frances had three children, two living.

Child: known is - Irene

 

1  Irene Coldwell b 1901, Honley

 

6  Joe Coldwell b 1875, d 1951, m 1901, Mary Hannah Hobson, b ca 1878. Joe was healder, woolen cloth in Honley in 1911.

Children: known are - Dorothy, Harold

 

1  Dorothy Coldwell b ca 1903, Honley

 

2  Harold Coldwell b 1907, Honley

 

3  Emma Cowgill b 15 Mar 1842, Meltham, d 20 Aug 1925, m 31 Mar 1866 (as Coldhill), Almondbury, John Mellor, b 1825, d 1927. John and Emma emigrated to the US in 1869, settling in ME.

 

4  Ann Coldwell b 1844, Honley, m 1869, Fred France, b ca 1845. Fred was a woolen mill worker in Honley.

 

5  Maria Coldwell b 1846, Honley, m 1870, David Littlewood, b ca 1843. David was a woolen weaver in Honley.

 

6  Law Coldwell b 1848, Honley, d 12 Oct 1926, m 1887, Mary Heap, b ca 1863. Law was a wheelwright in Honley.

Children: known are – George, Arthur, Luther, Clara, Ernest, Norah

 

1  George Heap Coldwell b 1887, Honley

 

2  Arthur Coldwell b 1889, Honley

 

3  Luther Coldwell b 1891, Honley

 

4  Clara Coldwell b 1893, Honley

 

5  Ernest Coldwell b 1897, Honley

 

6  Norah Coldwell b 1899, Honley

 

7  Lewis Coldwell b 1902, Honley

 

8  Alexander Coldwell b 1904, Honley

 

7  Peace Coldwell b 1850, Honley, d 20 Jun 1929, m(1) 1880, Selina Oldham, b ca 1855, d 18 Jul 1891; m(2) 1893, as her 2nd husband, Hannah Taylor, b ca 1859. Peace was a power loom turner(?) in Honley; in Mossley by 1901 as a potato chip dealer, and back in Honley by 1911. Hannah’s daughter Evelyn from her previous marriage is listed as a daughter of Peace’s on the 1901 census.

Children: known are – Eleanor, Olive

 

1  Eleanor Coldwell b 1883, Honley, m 1909, Alfred Thomas Stringer, b ca 1883.

 

2  Olive Coldwell b 1894, Honley

 

8  Leah Coldwell b 1857, Honley, m 1877, Ernest Dodson, b ca 1859. Ernest was a bobbin weaver in Honley. The family were lodgers at her mother’s in 1881.

 

5  Hannah Cowgill bapt 6 Jul 1817, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham (as Colgill), m 19 Jan 1845 (as Hannah Coldhill), St Michael’s, Jonathan Moore, a widower, b ca 1812. Hannah was lodging with her father in 1851 and 1861 as a married woman. Jonathan was a laborer in Meltham, lodging with his parents.

 

6  Maria Cowgill bapt 13 Jun 1819, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, bur 23 Apr 1820, aged 10m, St Bartholomew’s.

 

7  John Cowgill bapt 15 Jul 1823, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, bur 14 Jan 1883, age 59, Baptist Chapel, Meltham, m 31 May 1846, Sarah Allen, b ca 1825, d 1887, dau of Thomas Allen. By 1851 John was a cotton carder in Meltham; by 1881 a grinder in a cotton mill in Marsden.

Children: known are – Emma (1st), James, John, Emma (2nd), Joseph

 

1  Emma Cowgill b 1847, Meltham, d 1851 or 1854 (there were Emma Coldwells who d those years)?

 

2  James Allen Cowgill b 1849, Meltham, bur 13 Apr 1865, aged 15, St James, Meltham.

 

3  John Thomas Cowgill (registry has Coldwell, baptismal record and marriage cert signature is Cowgill) b 19 Jun 1853, Meltham, d 1921, m 13 Jan 1876, Holy Trinity, South Crosland, Charlotte Gledhill, b ca 1858, d 1941. By 1881 John was a scutcher at a cotton mill in Marsden; by 1901 a waterworks navy in Lingards, and a “gil exacter” there in 1911. Note: the 1911 census states Charlotte had seven children, three living.

Children: known are – James, Herbert, Harry

 

1  James William Cowgill b 13 Sep 1876 (as Coldwell), Netherton, d 23 Feb 1953, m 8 Apr 1912 (as Cowgill), St John the Evangelist's, Huddersfield, Mary Ann Merrian Pogson, b ca 1881, d 25 Jan 1955, dau of Samuel and Levina Pogson.

Child: known is - Frank

 

1  Frank Cowgill b 17 Oct 1912, d Jan 2000, m 1936 (need cert to verify) Elsie Garside, b 2 Jan 1911, d 1998

 

2  Herbert Cowgill b 1889, Slaithwaite, d 11 Oct 1917, a casualty of World War I, m 5 Aug 1911, St Bartholomew’s, Marsden, Isabel Robson, b ca 1890. Herbert was a private in 1st/5th Bn, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Bur Nine Elms British Cem., plot IV D 12. Isabel remarried in 1919 to Vincent Booth.

Children: known are – Herbert, John, Irene

 

1  Herbert Cowgill b 18 May 1912, Huddersfield, d 1992, m 1934, Elsie Clay, b 29 Apr 1916, d 1993.

    Children: known are - Derek, Gerald, Stuart

 

2  John Edgar Cowgill b 1913, Huddersfield, bur 6 Mar 1915, age 19m.

 

3  Irene Cowgill b 1916, Huddersfield, m 1939, Frederick J. Lamburn.

 

3  Harry Cowgill b 18 Oct 1894, Slaithwaite, d 18 Nov 1964, m 25 Mar 1922 (as Cowgill), Marsden Congregational Church, Elsie Smith, b 11 Sep 1895, d 11 Jul 1979.

    Children: known are – Dorothy, Gordon, Audrey

 

4  Emma Jane Cowgill b 1857, Meltham, d 1933. Emma was a cotton carder and spinner in Linthwaite.

 

5  Joseph Edward Cowgill b 14 Jan 1863, Meltham, bur 14 Jan 1863, aged 12h, St James, Meltham Mills. Note: record states a twin brother, unbaptized, was bur in the same grave on that date.

 

8  James Cowgill bapt 5 Jun 1825, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, bur 4 Dec 1825, aged 6m, St Bartholomew’s.

 

9  Sarah Cowgill bapt 18 May 1827, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, m 16 Feb 1857, Wooley, Thomas Broadbent, age 30, a widower, son of Moses Broadbent.

Child: known is - Denison

 

Denison Cowgill b 1846 (bapt 18 Jan 1846, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, son of Sarah, spinster), Meltham, d 1909, m(1) 4 Apr 1868, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, Elizabeth Armitage, b ca 1846, d 1890, dau of James Armitage; m(2) 20 Jun 1891, St Bartholomew’s, Marsden, Mary Wrigley, b ca 1849, d 11 Mar 1925. Denison was a lodger with his grandfather and mother/aunt in 1851/61. He was a woolen cloth laborer in Meltham. Note: at his 1st marriage no parents were listed for Denison on the marriage record; Zebulon Cowgill was a witness.

Children: known are – John, Sarah

 

John James Cowgill b 1869 (bapt 21 Feb 1869, St Bartholomew’s), Meltham, d 1 Oct  1941, m 10 Aug 1895, St James’, Slaithwaite Cum Lingards, Jane Taylor, b ca 1868, d 1939. John was a weaver in Lingards in 1911.

Children: known are – Fred, Arnold, Frank

 

Fred Cowgill b 7 May 1898, bur 22 Jun 1898, age 6w, St James', Slaithwaite.

 

Arnold Cowgill b 26 Jun 1903, d 1903.

 

Frank Cowgill b 1906, Lingards, d 18 Jul 1954, m 1935, May Peace, b 9 May 1904, d 1977.

    Children: known are - Bryan, David

 

Sarah Jane Cowgill b 1885, Meltham, m 23 May 1908, St Bartholomew’s, Meltham, Ernest Haigh, b ca 1884.

 

4  Hannah Cowgill (Cowdill?) bapt 5 Jul 1789, Meltham

 

5  Isaac Cowgill bapt 26 Dec 1796, Kirkheaton, bur 26 Jan 1797. Isaac shown as son of John Cowgill of Heaton.

 

5  James Cowgill bapt 25 Oct 1764, Kirkheaton, bur 24 May 1783.

 

6  Hannah Cowgill bapt 25 Oct 1767, Kirkheaton, m(1) 25 Dec 1804, Cathedral, Manchester, Robert Gadd; m(2) 2 Jan 1811, Kirkheaton, John Kilner.

Child: known is - Robert

 

Robert Cowgill b 13 Jun 1794 (bapt 20 Jul 1794, Almondbury), bur 11 Sep 1836 (d of "inflammation"), age 41, Cheetham Hill Wesleyan Chapel, Crumpsall, Manchester, m 21 Jul 1815, Peterborough, Northampton, Sarah King, b ca 1790, Peterborough, bur 28 Nov 1859, age 69, Manchester. Robert was described at death as a shopkeeper in Manchester.

Children: known are – Hannah, Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary

 

Hannah Cowgill bapt 9 Feb 1817, St Mary's, Honley, bur 26 May 1817, St Mary's, aged 4m.

 

Thomas Cowgill b 1821, bur 30 Jan 1822, age 8m, Manchester Cathedral.

 

Mary Cowgill bapt 29 Aug 1824, Manchester Cathedral, bur 28 Nov 1842, age 23.

 

Elizabeth Cowgill bapt 29 Aug 1824, Manchester Cathedral. No further information.

 

7  Thomas Cowgill (2nd) bapt 9 Mar 1770, Kirkheaton, bur 28 Apr 1834, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton, m(1) 12 Feb 1814, Kirkheaton, Martha Statham of Huddersfield, probably the Martha Cowgill bur 7 Dec 1829 at Huddersfield, aged 65, described in the Leeds Intelligencer of 17 Dec 1829: “ Mrs. Cowgill, of Huddersfield, hosier, at a very advanced age"; m(2) 11 Jan 1832, Huddersfield, Sarah Lockwood, b ca 1788.

 

8  Mary Cowgill bapt 3 Apr 1772, Kirkheaton, m 30 Jul 1792, Kirkheaton, Brian Sheard. Mary was widowed by 1811 (per uncle James’ will).

 

9  Charles Cowgill bapt 20 May 1773, Kirkheaton, bur 2 May 1841, age 66, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton, m 30 Apr 1798, Kirkheaton, Sarah Wood, bur 22 Sep 1847, age 68, St John the Baptist's. Charles was described as a “clothier” of Lepton on his children’s birth entries; he was listed as a “Yeoman” in Kirkheaton in Baines's Directory and Gazetteer of 1822. Sarah’s will, dated 10 Sep 1847, probated ("passed") 29 Mar 1848, mentions sons Isaac (named as exec), James, and William; and dau Elizabeth w of John Lockwood.

Children: known are – James, Ann (1st), Mary, Sarah, William, Martha, Isaac, Amelia, Ann (2nd), Joseph, Elizabeth

 

1  James Cowgill b Lepton, bapt 28 Oct 1798, Kirkheaton, d 1871 (bur 5 Apr 1871), m 2 Sep 1838, Sarah Beaumont, b ca 1816, d 1874. James was a farmer and laborer in Lepton, later listed as a road laborer. Sarah remarried in 1871 to Jabez Exley.

Children: known are - Elizabeth (adopted?), Henry, Joseph, Charles

 

1  Elizabeth Beaumont Cowgill b 28 Nov 1835 (bapt 27 Mar 1836), Kirkheaton (as Elizabeth Beaumont, mother Sarah a “single woman” of Lepton), bur 28 Oct 1844, age 8 (as Cowgill), St John the Baptist’s, Kirkheaton.

 

2  Henry Cowgill b 8 Jun 1839, Lepton, d 1871 (bur 17 Jun 1871), m 20 May 1861, Kirkheaton, Ellen Ely, b ca 1839, Lepton. By 1871 Henry was a road foreman in Huddersfield. Ellen remarried in 1873 to Allen Green.

Children: known are – Fred, Elizabeth, Mary

 

1  Fred Cowgill b 25 Dec 1860, Lepton, bur 4 Jan 1910, Honley Cem., Almondbury Parish, age 49, m 25 Sep 1886, All Hallows’, Almondbury, Elizabeth Boothroyd, b ca 1861, bur 4 Feb 1937, age 76. Fred was a wool weaver in Honley by 1891. Fred's home at death shown as Thirstin (probably Thurston).

Children: known are – Harry, Eunice, Allen, Ernest, Lewis

 

1  Harry Cowgill b 27 Sep 1887, Honley, d 1961, m 1926, Marion Roberts, b 1896, d 4 Dec 1962.

 

2  Eunice Cowgill b 22 Jan 1890, Honley, d 1971.

 

3  Allen Cowgill b 4 Nov 1892, Honley, d 24 Sep 1916 (bur Niederzwehren Cem., plot IV. H. 11), of wounds received in action in France during WW I. Allen was a private in the 1/5th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment).

 

4  Ernest Wilfred Cowgill b 1896, Honley, bur 26 May 1898, Honley Cem., age 1y 10m.

 

5  Lewis Cowgill b 22 Apr 1899, Honley, d 1965, m 1927, Mary E. Johnson.

    Child: known is - Allan

 

1  Allan Cowgill b 28 Oct 1927, d 1986, m 1984, Blackpool, Doreen Dyson, b 29 Sep 1924, d 1994.

 

2  Elizabeth Cowgill b 3 Sep 1862, Lepton, m 14 Jun 1885 (as Coldwell), All Hallows’, Almondbury, John Charlesworth, b ca 1864. John a woolen card cleaner in Honley in 1881.

 

3  Mary Cowgill b 26 Apr 1866, Huddersfield, d 1874 (bur 10 May 1874).

 

3  Joseph Cowgill b 12 Mar 1841, Lepton, bur 26 May 1910, age 69, m 11 May 1863, Kirkheaton, Harriet Milnes, b ca 1841, Lepton, bur 23 Oct 1916, age 75. Joseph was a road foreman in Dalton in 1871; a road surveyor there by 1891.

Children: known are – James, Charles, Henry, Annie, Joe

 

1  James Cowgill b 4 Oct 1863, Lepton, bur 29 Nov 1905, age 42, m 24 Jul 1886, Christ Church, Woodhouse (Huddersfield), Mary Jane Beaumont, b ca 1866. By 1891 James was general laborer in Dalton; a worsted dyer there in 1901. Mary remarried in 1910 to Arthur Shaw, a widower.

Children: known are – Eliza, Willie, Fred, Charles, Mabel, Marian, Ernest, Wilson

 

1  Eliza Cowgill b 7 Jan 1887 (bapt 20 Feb 1887), d 1887.

 

2  Willie Cowgill b 12 Jun 1888, Dalton, bur 18 Nov 1919, age 31.

 

3  Fred Cowgill b 9 Jun 1891, Dalton, bur 29 Oct 1891, aged 4m, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton.

 

4  Charles Cowgill b 4 Jan 1893, Dalton, bur 2 Jan 1894, age 11m, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton.

 

5  Mabel Cowgill b 19 Feb 1895, Dalton, m 2 Jul 1921, Kirkheaton, Harry Coope, b ca 1890.

 

6  Marian Cowgill b 13 Apr 1897, Dalton, bur 30 Aug 1897, aged 4m, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton.

 

7  Ernest Cowgill b 17 Feb 1902, Dalton, d 8 Dec 1953, age 51, m 1929, Gertrude Mary Wells, b 6 Mar 1909, d 1992.

 Children: known are - June, John, Angela

 

8  Wilson Cowgill b 29 Dec 1904, Dalton, d 1976, m 1929, Ivy Smith, b 28 Mar 1903, d 1997.

 

2  Charles Cowgill b 31 Jul 1867, Lepton, bur 16 Mar 1907, age 39. Charles was a gardener in Ilkley in 1901.

 

3  Henry Cowgill b 17 May 1869, Dalton, d 1933, m 21 Sep 1907, St Paul’s, Huddersfield, Lily Firth. In 1901 Henry was a road surveyor in Dalton.

Children: known are – Charles, Leslie, Minnie, Amy, Harry, Beatrice, Phyllis, Frank

 

1  Charles Cowgill b 1908, Dalton, bur 14 Feb 1911, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton.

 

2  Leslie Cowgill b 1910, Dalton, bur 9 Feb 1911, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton.

 

3  Minnie Cowgill b 1911, d 1924 (bur 3 Sep 1924, age 13).

 

4  Amy Cowgill b 1913, m 1947, Albert Boothroyd.

 

5  Harry Cowgill b and d 1915.

 

6  Beatrice Cowgill b 1916

 

7  Phyllis Cowgill b 1918, m 1947, George J. Morley.

 

8  Frank Cowgill b 16 Jul 1920, d 1984, m 1954, Huddersfield, Frances (Schofield) Bluff, b 29 Mar 1923, d 1980.

 

4  Annie Cowgill b 20 Aug 1871, Dalton, m 15 Oct 1894, Kirkheaton, Fred Stephenson, b ca 1873. Fred was a green grocer in Dalton.

 

5  Joe Cowgill b 9 Apr 1874, Dalton, bur 1 Apr 1925, age 50, m 30 Jan 1899, All Hallows’, Almondbury, Teresa Sykes, b ca 1872, bur 5 Sep 1945, All Hallows', age 74. Joe was a journeyman butcher in Dalton.

Children: known are – Maud, Stanley, Harold, Leonard, Norman, Frank, Reggie

 

1  Maud Cowgill b 30 May 1900, Dalton, d 1919.

 

2  Stanley Cowgill b 1902, Dalton, bur 28 Nov 1905, All Hallows, Almondbury.

 

3  Harold Sykes Cowgill b 1906, Dalton, bur 14 Mar 1907, All Hallows, Almondbury.

 

4  Leonard Cowgill b 2 Nov 1907, Dalton, d 1989, m 1934, Mildred Jebson, b 21 Feb 1910, d 1979.

    Children: known are - Joan, Robert

 

5  Norman Cowgill b 1909, Dalton, bur 1 Mar 1909, All Hallows, Almondbury.

 

6  Frank Sykes Cowgill b 1910, Dalton, bur 11 Feb 1911, All Hallows, Almondbury.

 

7  Reggie Cowgill b 28 Nov 1912, Dalton, d 1975, m 1939, Mary Hodson.

    Children: known are - Elaine, Valerie

 

4  Charles Cowgill b 29 Mar 1844, bur 3 Aug 1845, age 16m, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton.

 

2  Ann Cowgill (1st), dau of Charles and Sarah Cowgill, b 1800 (bapt 19 Jan 1800, Kirkheaton), Lepton, bur 12 Mar 1800.

 

3  Mary Cowgill b 1801 (bapt 8 Feb 1801, Kirkheaton), Lepton, d before 1841 (not mentioned in her mother’s will), m 11 Jul 1822, Kirkheaton, George Jessop, b ca 1796.

 

4  Sarah Cowgill b 1802 (bapt 14 Nov 1802, Kirkheaton), Lepton, bur 1 Mar 1803.

 

5  William Cowgill bapt 4 Apr 1804, Zion Independent Church, Flockton, bur 28 Jun 1877, age 71, Lepton. William is shown as a weaver in Lepton in 1841, and as an agricultural laborer lodging with brother Isaac in 1851. He does not appear on the 1861/71 censuses.

 

6  Martha Cowgill bapt 29 Jun 1806, Zion Independent Church, Flockton, d early (not mentioned in her mother’s will)?

 

7  Isaac Cowgill b 22 Oct 1809 (bapt 12 Nov 1809, Kirkheaton), Lepton, d 1877 (bur 15 Feb 1877), m 15 Jul 1846, High Street Chapel, Huddersfield, Mary Senior, b ca 1818, d 1882 (bur 18 Nov 1882). Isaac is shown as a weaver in Lepton in 1841; as a coal mine leader in 1851; as an agricultural laborer in Lockwood, Almondbury in 1861; in Lepton by 1871. Mary’s son, Sam Senior, is listed (mistakenly) as Sam Cowgill on the 1861 census. Mary was a lodger with Sam and family in 1881.

 

8  Amelia Cowgill b 19 May 1811 (bapt 30 Jun 1811, Kirkheaton), Lepton, bur 15 Mar 1812.

 

9  Ann Cowgill (2nd) bapt 14 Mar 1813, Kirkheaton, bur 19 Jan 1815.

 

10 Joseph Cowgill b 1821, bur 2 Apr 1821, Kirkheaton, age 3m.

 

11 Elizabeth Cowgill b 1821, Lepton (bapt 10 Jun 1821, Kirkheaton), m 23 Mar 1845, John Lockwood, b ca 1820. John was a laborer in Kirkheaton in 1851.

 

10 Abraham Cowgill bapt 25 Dec 1775, Kirkheaton, bur 30 Jan 1776.

 

11 Elizabeth Cowgill bapt 19 May 1777, m 15 Jul 1798, Kirkheaton, Francis Farrand.

 

12 Sarah Cowgill bapt 24 Apr 1779, Kirkheaton, m 2 Dec 1804, Kirkheaton, John Robinson.

 

13 George Cowgill bapt 20 Feb 1782, Kirkheaton, d 31 Dec 1853, m 24 Jun 1804, Kirkheaton, Charlotte Leadbeater, d 1846. George was a fent dealer in Manchester in 1841.

Children: known are – Sarah (1st), Nancy, Sarah (2nd), James, Joseph, Thomas

 

1  Sarah Cowgill (1st) b 1804 (bapt 23 Sep 1804, Kirkheaton), Lepton, d early.

 

2  Nancy Cowgill b 1806 (bapt 10 Apr 1806, Kirkheaton), Lepton, m 20 Feb 1825, Cathedral, Manchester, Richard Webster. Nancy and family were in Manchester in 1851.

 

3  Sarah Cowgill (2nd) b 2 Jun 1810 (bapt 19 Aug 1810, Kirkheaton), Lepton, m 26 Aug 1824, Kirkheaton, John Holroyd. Sarah and son George Cowgill Holroyd, b ca 1835, m 1863, were lodging with her parents in 1841.

 

4  James Cowgill b ca 1813, Huddersfield (per 1861 census, but probably Kirkheaton), d 1873, Salford, m(1) 23 Oct 1831, Cathedral, Manchester, Jane Edwards, d 1851; m(2) 1 Jan 1859, Cathedral, Manchester, Sarah Wilson, b ca 1818 (1861 census; ca 1813 on 1851 census), Brampton, Cumberland, d 10 Jun 1861, (James appointed admin of her estate in 1863), Salford, dau of David and Mary Wilson; m(3) 9 Jul 1863, Cathedral, Manchester, Sarah (Taylor) Haywood, b ca 1919, dau of Isaac Taylor. James was in Salford in 1841 (his occupation illegible on the census); shown as a porter in a warehouse in 1851/1861, Sarah as an office cleaner. Could not locate James in 1871. James' widow Sarah remarried 5 Aug 1874 to Charles Taylor.

Children: known are – John, George, Thomas, Elizabeth, William

 

1  John Cowgill bapt 30 Mar 1834, Cathedral, Manchester, d 1866 (bur 10 Jun 1866, St John's, Deansgate, age 26; need to verify with death cert; it has him b ca 1840, a butcher)? This is probably the John Cowgill, age 17, shown as a butcher in Salford in 1861. This is also the likely John Cowgill of Salford mentioned in Lancashire Quarter Session records in a petition, dated Easter 1866 for “Bill of costs of prosecution of John Cowgill for larceny” (ref QSP/3747/73); also, “Bill of costs of prosecution of Ashton Farrow and John Cowgill for larceny and receiving” (ref QSP/3762/22).

 

2  George Cowgill bapt 8 Jan 1837, Cathedral (Collegiate), Manchester, d 1844.

 

3  Thomas Cowgill b 1839 (bapt 30 Jun 1839), Manchester, d 1906, m 26 Apr 1863, Manchester, Jane Glover, b ca 1845, d 1934. In 1871 Thomas was in Hulme (Manchester) as a calico manufacturer; by 1901 in Gorton (Manchester) as an engineer’s laborer. Note: Thomas not located on the 1861 census.

Children: known are – John, Lydia, Joseph, Elizabeth, Arthur

 

1  John Thomas Cowgill b 1870, Newton Le Willows, d 1935, m 16 Apr 1892, St Bartholomew's, Salford, Sarah Ellen Roberts, b ca 1870. John was a warehouse hoistman in South Manchester in 1901, a shop porter in Longsight in 1911.

Children: known are – Florence, James, John, Wilfred, Robert, Harry

 

1  Florence Cowgill b 1894, d 1895.

 

2  James Cowgill b 1898, Longsight, Lancs, d 1978, m 11 Jun 1927, Christ Church, Salford, Ruth Cawley, b 7 Nov 1900, d 1979.

    Child: known is - Lesley Patricia

 

3  John Cowgill b 1900, Longsight, Lancs, d Feb 1916. John bur Southern Cem., Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Manchester.

 

4  Wilfred Cowgill b 12 Jun 1903, d 1972, Monton, m 1924, St Clement's, Olive Fowler, b 14 Feb 1903, d 1973.

    Children: known are - Wilfred, Olive, Muriel, Ivy, infant, Vera, Jean

 

1  Wilfred Eric Cowgill b 27 Apr 1925, Manchester, d 2000, m(1) 1947, Mary Cawley, d 1969; m(2) 1971, Macclesfield, Emily Challinor.

    Child: known is - Eric

 

2  Olive Cowgill b 1926, Manchester, d 1926.

 

3  Muriel Cowgill b 1927, m 1946, John D. Lascelles.

 

4  Ivy Cowgill b 1928, d 1929.

 

5  infant Cowgill b 1930, d 1930.

 

6  Vera Cowgill b 1932, m 1954, William H. Barlow.

 

7  Jean Cowgill b 1937, 

 

5  Robert Cowgill b 23 May 1906, Gorton, d 1973, m 1930, Lilian Cawthrow, d 1967.

    Child: known is - Robert

 

1  Robert W. Cowgill b 1933, d 1956.

 

6  Harry Cowgill b 24 Aug 1912, d 1993, m 1934, May Harrison, b 3 Dec 1910, d 1987.

    Children: known are - Evelyn, Linda

 

2  Lydia Cowgill b 1875, Barton upon Irwell, m 24 Jun 1894, Stowell Memorial Church, Salford, Samuel Worrall.

 

3  Joseph Cowgill b 1879, d 13 Jun 1880, age 16m, bur Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Barton Upon Irwell. Parish register has "son of James Cowgill, porter. Cause of Death: Teething, Abode: Patricroft". This must be a mistake for Thomas.

 

4  Elizabeth Cowgill b 1881 (bapt 23 Nov 1881, Christ-Church, Patricroft), Barton upon Irwell, m 30 Sep 1905, St Andrew’s, Eccles, John Henry Allmark, b ca 1883, son of John Allmark.

 

5  Arthur Cowgill b 1883/4, Openshaw, d 29 Aug 1916, a casualty of World War I, m 30 Sep 1905, All Saints, Newton Heath, Ethel Waddington. Arthur was a butcher in Gorton (Manchester). He enlisted 1902 in the Manchester Regt as a private, serving until 1914 with postings to St Helena and South Africa; apparently reenlisted for the war. Bur Amara War Cem., plot III B 7. Ethel remarried 1921, James O'Brien.

Children: known are – Florence, Ethel, Leonard, Edgar, Arthur

 

1  Florence Cowgill b 9 Apr 1906, Manchester, d 1954, m 1929, Alfred W. Fearnhead.

 

2  Ethel Cowgill b 1908, d 1908.

 

3  Leonard Cowgill b 16 Mar 1909, Manchester, d 1992, m 1933, Constance Alice Lewis, b 3 Jan 1905, d 1986.

    Children: known are - Kenneth, Raymond

 

4  Edgar Cowgill b 19 May 1912, Manchester, d 1982, m 1945, Elsie Curley, b 9 Sep 1924, d 1997.

    Children: known are - Ronald, Joyce, Alan, John, Jean

 

5  Arthur Cowgill b 13 Apr 1915, Manchester, d 1991.

 

4  Elizabeth Cowgill b 18 May 1844 (bapt 23 Mar 1845), Manchester, d 1852 (need to check death cert to verify).

 

5  William Cowgill b 8 May 1847 (bapt 2 Jul 1848), Manchester, d 1849.

 

5  Thomas Cowgill b 30 Aug 1819, Kirkheaton (bapt 5 Sep 1830, Cathedral, Manchester), d 1 Sep 1887, m(1) 1839, Manchester, Alice Woodworth, d 1859; m(2) Martha Thomas Challender, b ca 1829, d 1888. Thomas was a pattern card maker in Manchester. Shown by himself, but as married, in 1881. A Martha Chaloner, "spinster", was the sole executrix of his will.

Children: known are – Sarah, James, Elizabeth, Mary, Thomas

 

1  Sarah Cowgill b 1840, Manchester, bapt 6 Sep 1840, m 4 Feb 1857, St Mary's, Manchester, William Henry Phillips, b ca 1840.

 

2  James Woodworth Cowgill b and d 1842, Manchester.

 

3  Elizabeth Alice Cowgill b 1843, Chorlton (Manchester), bapt 22 Aug 1845, Cathedral, Manchester, m 3 Apr 1861, Christ Church, Mirfield, William Leadbeatter, b ca 1840. William and Elizabeth were on his father’s farm in Mirfield in 1861.

 

4  Mary Jane Cowgill b 1 Aug 1845 (bapt 22 Aug 1845, Cathedral, Manchester), Chorlton (Manchester), m 20 Mar 1865, Cathedral, Manchester, James Brown, b ca 1842. James was a carter in Gorton (Manchester) in 1871. Mary Jane apparently remarried in 1896 to Jonathan Greaves.

 

5  Thomas Henry Cowgill b 1854 (bapt 15 Nov 1854, Cathedral, Manchester), Chorlton (Manchester), d 1931, m(1) 1875, Manchester, Eleanor Catherine Thornton, b 1853, d 1937; div? (Thomas shown separately in 1901 with Jane as wife; Eleanor listed as “married”, but living separately with the two children); m(2) Jane ____, b ca 1855. Thomas was a clerk at an iron works in Manchester.

Children: known are – Eleanor, Walter

 

1  Eleanor Cowgill b 1876, Newton Det, Lancs, m 1908, Walter Sugden, b ca 1874. Walter was a coal merchant in Hulme in 1911.

 

2  Walter Cowgill b 1881, Manchester. Walter a bricklayer in Gorton (Manchester) in 1911, lodging with his mother.

 

6  Joseph Cowgill b 6 Jan 1821 (bapt 5 Sep 1830, Cathedral, Manchester), d 16 Feb 1849, age 28 (per newspaper obit), m 23 Oct 1838, St Mary’s, Eccles Parish, Elizabeth Melling, d 1858 (need death cert to verify), dau of Richard Melling. Joseph was a clerk in Manchester in 1841, later described as of Chorlton-upon-Medlock.

Children: known are – Charles, George, Thomas

 

1  Charles George Cowgill bapt 31 Mar 1839, Cathedral, Manchester, d 1840.

 

2  George Richard Cowgill b 1844 (bapt 23 Jul 1844, Cathedral, Manchester), d 19 Dec 1889, m 1870, Chorlton on Medlock, Emily Taylor, b ca 1849, Manchester, d before 1889. George was lodging with his grandfather, Richard Melling, in 1861; by 1871 he was a corn clerk in Chorlton on Medlock. His estate was administered for minor dau Ethel, his “only next of kin”.

Children: known are – Ethel, Percy

 

1  Ethel Mary Cowgill b 1871, Manchester, m(1) 1892, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, William Thomas Hailwood; m(2) 1903, Arthur Hammond Ainslie. In 1891 Ethel was a dance teacher lodging with her aunt, Maria Melling. This must be the Ethel M. Cowgill who d 1944, Staffordshire, age 72.

 

2  Percy Melling Cowgill b 1873, Manchester, d 1874.

 

3  Thomas Melling Cowgill b 1846, Manchester, d 23 Aug 1846.

 

3  Joseph Cowgill bapt 20 Oct 1736, Kirkheaton. No further information.

 

4  William Cowgill bapt 12 Mar 1739, Kirkheaton, bur 21 Feb 1793, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, m 24 Apr 1764, St Peter’s, Sarah Oxley, b ca 1743, bur 17 Apr 1823, aged 80, St Peter’s, Huddersfield. William is listed on Huddersfield land tax records (1781 is first available year) as occupier of a parcel owned by Sir John Ramsden.

Children: known are – John, Mally, Fanny, Thomas, Hannah, Sarah, William, Betty, Ellen, James

 

1  John Cowgill bapt 10 Oct 1766, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, bur 7 Mar 1772, St Peter’s.

 

2  Mally (also as Betty) Cowgill bapt 8 Feb 1769, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, d early (not mentioned in uncle James’ will)?

 

3  Fanny Cowgill bapt and bur 17 Nov 1771, St Peter’s, Huddersfield.

 

4  Thomas Cowgill bapt 31 Dec 1772, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, bur 24 Mar 1850, age 77, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, m 11 Aug 1799, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, Hannah Ellam, bur 1 Sep 1842, age 68, St Peter’s. Thomas was described as a cloth dresser in parish records, and was a clothier in Huddersfield in 1841.

Children: known are – Mary, William, Sarah, John, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Thomas, Joseph

 

1  Mary Cowgill b 12 Aug 1799 (bapt 18 May 1800, St Peter’s), Huddersfield, bur 15 May 1811.

 

2  William Cowgill b 11 Feb 1801 (bapt 27 May 1801, St Peter’s), Huddersfield, bur 7 Nov 1805, St Peter’s.

 

3  Sarah Cowgill b 18 May 1803 (bapt 8 Aug 1804, St Peter’s), Huddersfield, bur 3 Jun 1843, age 40, St Peter’s. Sarah is shown on the 1841 census lodging with an Elizabeth Cowgill, age 75. Elizabeth d in 1844 (bur 27 Sep 1844, age 79, St Peter’s). Was she an aunt to Sarah as a child of William Cowgill?

 

4  John Cowgill b 13 Apr 1805 (bapt 24 Jun 1805, St Peter’s), Huddersfield, bur 3 May 1807.

 

5  Eleanor Cowgill b 5 Jan 1807 (bapt 29 Mar 1807, St Peter’s), Huddersfield, bur 24 Jun 1846, m 16 Oct 1834 (as Ellen), St Peter's, John Pawson, b ca 1808. John was a stone mason in Huddersfield.

 

6  Elizabeth Cowgill b 22 Feb 1809 (bapt 17 May 1809, St Peter’s), Huddersfield, m 3 Aug 1848, Huddersfield, Charles Dunlop, b ca 1812, Scotland. In 1851 Charles was a saddler journeyman in Huddersfield.

 

7  Thomas Cowgill b 30 May 1811 (bapt 26 Dec 1823, St Peter’s, Huddersfield), bur 15 Jan 1854, age 42, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, m 29 Oct 1848, Huddersfield, Sarah Fawcett, b ca 1810, d 23 Jan 1895 (bur 26 Jan 1895, age 85, All Saints’, Roberttown). Thomas was a cloth dresser in 1841, lodging with his parents. By 1851 he was a woolen cloth dresser and beer seller in Huddersfield. Sarah Fawcett had a dau, Matilda Fawcett, who m William Slann in 1865. They had a child Lucy Cowgill Slann, b 1874, Chorlton. Sarah lodged with her dau after Thomas’ death.

Child: known is – Susannah

 

1  Susannah Cowgill b 20 Jul 1849, Huddersfield, bur 2 Nov 1851, age 2, St Peter’s, Huddersfield.

 

8  Joseph Cowgill b 4 Mar 1816 (bapt 26 Dec 1823, St Peter’s, Huddersfield), d 1854, Huddersfield (bur St Peter’s, 24 Jun 1854, aged 38), m 12 Mar 1845, Cathedral, Manchester, Mary Ann Vickers Laughton, b ca 1816, bur 13 Jan 1855, St George's, Doncaster. Joseph was in Manchester in 1851 as a cotton “raiser (?)”.

Child: known is - Hannah

 

1  Hannah Cowgill b 13 Jan 1846, Manchester (on census, but baptized in Huddersfield), m 25 Dec 1868, Kirkheaton, Thomas Cooper, b ca 1846. Thomas was a shuttle maker in Huddersfield. They had a son, Joseph Cowgill Cooper, b 1871.

 

5  Hannah Cowgill bapt 12 Jan 1775, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, bur 17 May or 17 Dec 1775, St Peter’s, Huddersfield (Note: there were two Hannahs, dau of William, bur in 1775 - who was the other?).

 

6  Sarah Cowgill b ???, bur 25 Jun 1778, St Peter’s, Huddersfield. No baptismal entry found, but burial entry states "of William Cowgill, Huddersfield".

 

7  William Cowgill b ca 1778, bur 1 Jul 1841, age 63, m 2 May 1804, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, Mary Armitage, b ca 1780, Dalton, d 1864. No birth record for William, but he is mentioned in James’ will so was alive in 1811. William is shown on the 1841 census as ca age 60, a cloth finisher in Huddersfield. In 1851 and 1861 Mary is shown lodging with son John. This is probably the William Cowgill mentioned in a 1794 legal dispute about an indenture (apprenticeship?) to a Huddersfield butcher.

Children: known or suspected are – Henry, Ann, Mary, Elizabeth, James, Charles, William, Thomas, Sarah, John

 

1  Henry Cowgill b 22 Jul 1804 (bapt 8 Aug 1804, St Peter’s), Huddersfield, bur 9 Feb 1805, St Peter’s.

 

2  Ann Cowgill, bur 26 Nov 1809, St Peter’s (no birth record, but burial notice reads “of William”).

 

3  Mary Ann Cowgill b 3 Jan 1806 (bapt 2 Mar 1806), Huddersfield, bur 15 May 1811.

 

4  Elizabeth Cowgill b 7 Jan 1808 (bapt 28 Feb 1808), Huddersfield, bur 4 Sep 1808, St Peter’s, Huddersfield.

 

5  James Cowgill b 13 Sep 1809 (bapt 8 Oct 1809, St Peter’s), Huddersfield, d 31 Dec 1889, m 18 Feb 1838, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, Charlotte Weaville, b ca 1814, d 1885, dau of Joseph Weaville. James shown as a fancy woolen manufacturer in Huddersfield in 1851; Charlotte shown working as a nurse in 1881.

Child: known is - Hannah

 

1  Hannah Cowgill b 2 Jun 1838 (bapt 8 Jul 1838), Huddersfield, m 13 Jul 1856, Huddersfield, John Lumb, b ca 1838. Hannah and family were lodging with her parents in 1861. Note: they had a son James Cowgill Lumb b ca 1862, d 1903; he had a son Reginald Cowgill Lumb b 1889, d 1910, and a son Norman Cowgill Lumb, b 1892.

 

6  Charles Cowgill b 3 Feb 1812 (bapt 23 Feb 1812), Huddersfield, d 3 May 1871, m 25 Jan 1841, All Hallows’, Almondbury, Charlotte Gipson, b ca 1807, bur 15 Apr 1855, age 49, St Peter’s, Huddersfield. Charles was a tailor and beer seller in Huddersfield. Charles had Mary Sarsfield, age 31, b Ireland, unmarried, servant in his household in 1861.

Child: probably was - Charles

 

1  Charles Cowgill Sarsfield, b and d 1859, Huddersfield.

 

7  William Cowgill 25 May 1814 (bapt 28 Aug 1814, St Peter’s), Huddersfield, d 1863 (need to verify with death cert), m 25 Dec 1846, Huddersfield, Mary Ann Dunkersley, b ca 1827, dau of William Dunkersley. In 1851 William was a tin plate worker lodging with his father-in-law in Huddersfield; by himself in Halifax in 1861. Is Mary Ann the Mary Ann Cowgill b ca 1826 shown in Manchester Prison records from 1861 to 1872?

 

8  Thomas Cowgill b 31 Aug 1817 (bapt 12 Oct 1817, St Peter’s), Huddersfield, d 27 Dec 1889, m 26 Dec 1841, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton, Elizabeth Hirst, b ca 1821, bur 29 Jan 1860, age 38, Woodhouse Christ Church, Huddersfield. In 1851 Thomas is shown as a grocer and provision dealer in Huddersfield; in 1881 he was lodging with dau Mary and family.

Children: known are – William, Mary, Annie, Henry, Tom, Fanny, James, James Edward

 

1  William Cowgill b 22 Jul 1843, Huddersfield, d 1880s (probably the William who d 1886, Sculcoates), m 1866, Dewsbury Civil Dist, Susan Moody, b ca 1840, d 1914. William is shown as a printer and compositor in Leeds in 1871; as a commercial traveler in Mirfield in 1881.

Children: known are – Harold, Ernest, Walter

 

1  Harold Benjamin Cowgill b 23 Jul 1866, Leeds, d 1927, m 1886, Dewsbury Civil Dist, Mary Grady. Not located on 1891/1901 UK censuses. Harold arrived Quebec 16 Jul 1887 aboard the “Parisian”, but was back in England by 1911. This is probably the Harold Cowgill who enlisted for service in World War I, but was medically discharged in 1915. He claimed prior service with the Royal Canadian Dragoons and age 44y 1m, b Leeds, on 16 Aug 1915.

 

2  Ernest Sharpe Cowgill b 31 Dec 1868, Burnley, d 1871, Leeds.

 

3  Walter William Cowgill b 1 Sep 1871, Leeds, d 1938, m 29 Oct 1900, Christ Church, Dewsbury, Eleanor Hopkinson, b ca 1871, d 1958. Walter was a railroad plate layer in Ravensthorpe.

 

2  Mary Cowgill b 12 Dec 1844, Huddersfield, m 8 Sep 1869, Huddersfield, Joseph Kaye Beaumont, b ca 1847. In 1871 Joseph was an assistant draper in Huddersfield. Mary’s father, Thomas, and two siblings were lodgers with them in 1881.

 

3  Annie Cowgill b 1848, Huddersfield, bur 17 Sep 1848, aged 7w, St Peter's, Huddersfield.

 

4  Henry Cowgill b 22 Sep 1850, Huddersfield, d 10 Mar 1930, m 1875, Rotherham Civil Dist, Emily Edwards, b ca 1853, d 19 May 1937. By 1881 Henry was in Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield working in a leather goods mill.

Children: known are – Annie, Ettie, Emma, Henry, Thomas, Ernest, Charles, Edith

 

1  Ann Elizabeth Cowgill b 4 Jul 1876, Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, d 1951, bur City Road Cem.

 

2  Etty Louisa Cowgill b 1878, Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, m 1900, Albert Woodcock, b ca 1876. In 1901, Albert was a clerk for a steel manufacturer in Sheffield.

 

3  Emma Cowgill b 1881, Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, d 1889.

 

4  Henry Cowgill b 1884, Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, d 1 Jun 1958, m 1917, Ethel Mary Hurdon, d 1968.

    Child: known is - Noreen

 

1  Noreen Cowgill b 1919, m 1943, Peter Thompson.

 

5  Thomas Cowgill b 1887, Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, d 31 Jan 1958, m 1912, Ecclesall Bierlow, Martha Pilmore, b ca 1887, d 1960.

Child: known is - Renee

 

1  Renee Cowgill b 1913, Ecclesall Bierlow, m 1941, Arthur Jackson.

 

6  Ernest Cowgill (twin?) b 1889, Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, d 1889.

 

7  Charles Cowgill (twin?) b 1889, Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, d 1891.

 

8  Edith Ellen Cowgill b 1892, Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, m 1920, Joseph Stacey.

 

5  Tom Cowgill b 16 Mar 1852, Huddersfield, d 20 Aug 1890, Ramsden, m 27 Jan 1873, Huddersfield, Jane Armitage, b ca 1853, d 13 May 1891. In 1881 Tom was an innkeeper of the Dog and Gun Inn in Ramsden. Jane managed the inn after Tom's death.

Child: known is - Ernest

 

1  Ernest Joe Cowgill b 1 Apr 1873, Huddersfield, d 1945, m 25 Feb 1897, St Thomas’, Huddersfield, Clara Frances Riding, b ca 1876, d 1912. Ernest Joe was an upholsterer in Huddersfield.

Children: known are – Cora, Alice, Tom, Jack, Ernest, Evelyn, Harry, Norman

 

1  Cora Cowgill b 24 Apr 1897, Huddersfield, m 28 May 1921, Buxton Road Chapel, Huddersfield, Frank Saville, b ca 1896.

 

2  Alice Cowgill b 2 Jan 1899, Huddersfield, d 1986, m 31 Aug 1929, Buxton Road Chapel, Joseph Waldo Bilton, b 1898, d 1963.

 

3  Tom Cowgill b 15 Dec 1900, Huddersfield, d 10 Jun 1979, m 1936 (need marriage cert to verify), Mabel White, b 17 Nov 1906, d 1999.

 

4  Jack Cowgill b 11 Jan 1904, Huddersfield, d 1967, m 1931, Maggie Castle, b 1905, d 1966.

    Children: known are - Jacqueline, Kathleen

 

5  Ernest Cowgill b 13 Jan 1906, Huddersfield, d 1984, m 12 Nov 1932, Methodist Chapel, Sowood Green, Stainland, Mabel Skuse, b 21 Jul 1910, d 1983, dau of George Skuse.  Children: known are - Maurice, Barrie

 

6  Evelyn Cowgill b 17 Sep 1907, Huddersfield, m 1939, Huddersfield, Harry Howson.

 

7  Harry Cowgill b 30 Oct 1909, Huddersfield, d 1920.

 

8  Norman Cowgill b 20 Oct 1911, Huddersfield, d 1972, m 1937, Wakefield, Blanche Matilda Betteridge, b 17 Nov 1912, d 30 Sep 1996 (cremated 7 Oct 1996 Wakefield Crematorium).

   Children: known are - Gordon, Margaret, Kathryn

 

6  Fanny Cowgill b 8 Nov 1853, Huddersfield, m 1 Oct 1888, St Mark’s, Huddersfield, Reuben Turner, b ca 1865. In 1891 Reuben was a gas stoker in Huddersfield.

Child: known is (others after marriage) - Ernest

 

Ernest Cowgill b 19 Oct 1878, Huddersfield, d 3 Sep 1916, killed in action in France. Ernest was a private, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), bur Thiepval Memorial Cem., plot Pier and Face 6A and 6B. With his mother and step-father in 1891. Ernest's birth cert states he is the son of James and Fanny Cowgill, James an innkeeper.

 

7  James Edward Cowgill b 23 Sep 1855, Huddersfield, d 1856/7.

 

8  James Edward Cowgill b 1 Mar 1857, Huddersfield, d 1883. In 1881 James was a boarder with brother Tom.

 

9  Sarah Cowgill b 29 Jul 1820 (bapt 1 Oct 1820, St Peter’s), Huddersfield, m 17 Feb 1842, Huddersfield, William Thorpe Ashton, b ca 1818. In 1851 William was a cloth finisher in Huddersfield, Sarah a dressmaker.

 

10 John Cowgill bapt 9 Nov 1823, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, d 26 Apr 1906, m 25 Aug 1849, Huddersfield, Jane Davison, b ca 1826, d 1892, dau of Bartholomew and Mary Davison. John was a printer-compositor in Huddersfield.

Children: known are – Fred, Mary, John, Sarah, Annie, Lucy, Harry

 

1  Fred Cowgill b 9 Apr 1851, Huddersfield, d 1865. Fred was lodging with his Davison grandparents in 1861.

 

2  Mary Hannah Cowgill b 11 Sep 1853, Huddersfield, m 1882, Huddersfield, Fred Haigh, b ca 1851. In 1901 Fred was a school caretaker in Huddersfield. Is this the Mary Hannah Naylor, a widow, who was the executor of John Cowgill's will?

 

3  John Lawrence Cowgill b 26 Dec 1855, Huddersfield, d 1895, Middlesbrough, North Riding, m 26 Dec 1877, St John the Evangelist's, Huddersfield, Frances Clegg, b ca 1855, Huddersfield, d 1917. John was a printer and stationary shop owner, Frances a “tailoress” shown separately (but married) in Liverpool with dau Hilda in 1891; in 1901 Frances, as a widow, was in West Derby with Hilda and son John. John was convicted of larcency 7 Apr 1890 by a court at Wakefield and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. Two of his children emigrated to Albany, NY (see links below).

Children: known are – John Arthur, George, Frederick, Hilda

 

John Arthur Cowgill (see link).

 

2  George Lawrence Cowgill b 1880, Huddersfield, d 1881.

 

3  Frederick Charles Cowgill b 1882, Huddersfield, d 1938, m 1910, Middlesbrough, North Riding, Amy Josephine Knight, b ca 1877, d 1945. Fred was a hotel manager in Stockton On Tees in 1911.

Children: known (or suspected) are – Hilda, Lilian, Betty

 

1  Hilda Cowgill b 1907, West Derby, m 1942, Arthur R. Davies.

 

2  Lilian L. Cowgill b 1914, Durham, m 1944, John G. Afford.

 

3  Betty J. Cowgill b 1920, Newcastle upon Tyne, m 1938, John S. Atkinson.

 

Hilda Cowgill (see link).

 

4  Sarah Jane Cowgill b 7 May 1860, Huddersfield, m 1887, Huddersfield, Albert William Lockwood, b ca 1865.

 

5  Annie Cowgill b 3 Jul 1862, Huddersfield, d 1865.

 

6  Lucy Ann Davison Cowgill b 30 Dec 1865, Huddersfield, d 1866.

 

5  Harry Cowgill b 26 Aug 1867, Huddersfield, d 19 Sep 1923, m 1899, Carlisle, Kate Somerville, b ca 1873. In 1901 Harry was a factory manager in Stanwix. Kate (Kathleen) remarried in 1924 to William James Graham.

 

8  Betty Cowgill bapt 3 Jun 1779, St Peter’s, Huddersfield (this would be the niece Elizabeth mentioned in James’ will)

 

9  Ellen Cowgill bapt 11 Jul 1781, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, bur 22 Feb 1782.

 

10 James Cowgill bapt 2 Apr 1784, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, d early (not mentioned in uncle James’ will)?

 

5  Abraham Cowgill bapt 2 Feb 1742, Kirkheaton, bur 16 Mar 1742/3.

 

6  Thomas Cowgill bapt 3 May 1747, Kirkheaton, bur 4 Jul 1749.

 

7  James Cowgill bapt 24 Jun 1750, Kirkheaton, bur 15 May 1811, Kirkheaton, m 8 May 1780, Kirkheaton, Ann Jessup, bur 31 Mar 1812. James was described as an “innkeeper of Heaton”, elsewhere as proprietor of Beaumont's Arms. Innkeepers Of Unidentified Houses, Huddersfield And District includes an entry dated 12 Mar 1796, “House of Mr James Cowgill, near Kirkheaton Church”. He left a will (proved 20 Jun 1811 in the Court of York. IR 26/434). In it he mentions "my farm and land(s) at Kirkheaton"; and makes bequests to/or mentions: my half-brother David; sons of deceased brother John (in descending age order Joseph, William, Thomas ("4th son"), Charles, George; niece Hannah, wife of Robert Gadd; niece Mary, widow of Bryan Sheard; niece Betty, wife of Francis Farrand; niece (dau of deceased brother John) Sarah, wife of John Robinson; nephews Thomas & William, sons of "late deceased brother William"; sister-in-law (not named), wife of deceased brother William; niece Elizabeth Cowgill, dau of late deceased brother William. Ann’s will, dtd 26 Mar 1812, probated Jul 1812 leaves all to unnamed nieces and nephews; neph Jos Foster, exec.

Child: known is - infant

 

1  infant Cowgill, bur 20 Dec 1782, Kirkheaton, "an infant of James Cowgill of Heaton".

 

8  David Cowgill bapt 6 Jan 1759, Kirkheaton, m 7 Nov 1779 (William Cowgill and Thomas Kaye witnesses), All Hallows, Almondbury, Hannah Hobson. Curiously, the parish record at All Hallows also lists this marriage on 26 Jun 1779, but this record was not signed by the couple. On son William's birth notice David was described as a clothier of Temple Newsome in Almondbury.

Children: known are – Anne, John (1st), William, Sarah, John (2nd), Nancy, Samuel, Joseph, James

 

1  Anne Cowgill bapt 7 Jan 1781, Almondbury,

Child: known is - William

 

William Cowgill b 27 May 1802 (bapt 27 Jun 1802, St Michael’s, Ashton under Lyne). No further information.

 

2  John Cowgill (1st) bapt 15 Sep 1782, Almondbury, bur 3 Jul 1783, Halifax.

 

3  William Cowgill bapt 26 Sep 1784, Almondbury. No further information.

 

4  Sarah Cowgill bapt 28 May 1787, Almondbury,

Child: possibly - Walter

 

Walter Cowgill bapt 16 Oct 1831, St Michael's, Ashton under Lyne, d early?

 

5  John Cowgill (2nd) bapt 4 Nov 1790, Emley, d 1816 (bur 13 Jul 1816, age 28, St George's, Stalybridge), m 20 Jun 1813, St Mary's, Ann Marsland, b ca 1791, Cheshire (?), d 1859 (bur 21 May 1859), Ashton under Lyne.

Children: known are – Joseph, John, David

 

1  Joseph Cowgill b ca 1811, Ashton under Lyne, bur 13 Sep 1873, age 61, St Paul’s, Stalybridge. Joseph was a cotton packer in Dukinfield in 1871. Apparantly never married.

 

2  John Cowgill b ca 1811, Ashton under Lyne, bur 5 Aug 1817, age 6, St George's, Stalybridge.

 

3  David Cowgill b 4 Aug 1813 (bapt 3 Oct 1813, St Michael's, Ashton under Lyne), bur 20 Jan 1869, age 53, St Paul’s, Stalybridge, m 17 Mar 1844, Manchester, Elizabeth (“Betty”) Taylor, b ca 1817, Blackburn, bur 25 Jan 1879, age 61, St Paul’s. The family lived in Dukinfield and worked in textiles. (Note: could not find David on the 1851 census). Several of David's children emigrated to America (see links below).

Children: known – Mary, Joseph, Hannah, Isaac, John Thomas, David, John, Ann

 

Mary Cowgill (see link).

 

Joseph Cowgill (see link).

 

3  Hannah Marsland Cowgill b 12 Jul 1849, Ashton under Lyne, m 9 Feb 1868, James Pratt. No further information.

  

Isaac Cowgill (see link).

 

5  John Thomas Cowgill b 5 Nov 1854 (bapt 18 Nov 1855, St Michael's), Ashton under Lyne, d 1855.

 

6  David Cowgill bur 26 Apr 1857, St George's, Hartshead, infant.

 

7  John Cowgill b 1858, Ashton Under Lyne, bur 8 Jul 1901, age 43, St Paul’s, Stalybridge, m 1892, as her 2nd husband, Ashton Under Lyne, Charlotte Ann (Rawcliffe/Schofield) Grey, b ca 1865, d 1921. John listed with sister Mary in 1881/1891, and as a laborer in Lancashire in 1901.

Children: known are – Mary Ann, Tom, Elizabeth Ann, Kate (1st), Kate (2nd), Edward(?)

 

1  Mary Ann Cowgill b 18 Jun 1892 (bapt 3 Jun 1893, St John’s, Dukinfield), m 1910, Harry (or Henry) Kirk.

Child: known is - Elizabeth

 

Elizabeth Ann Cowgill b 2 Nov 1908, m 1931, St Peter's Catholic Church, Staleybridge Thomas Meredith.

 

2  Tom Cowgill b 15 Oct 1894, Ashton Under Lyne, d 1963 (bur 10 Sep 1963, St Paul's), m 1913, Catherine Lumley, b 1897, d 1968.

Children: known are – John, Alice, Samuel, William, Catherine, Charlotte, Gertrude

 

1  John Cowgill b 1913, d 13 Aug 1914, bur St Peter's Catholic Church, Staleybridge.

 

2  Alice Cowgill b 1916, m 1939, Henry Bamforth.

 

3  Samuel Cowgill b 1917, d 1935 (bur 21 Sep 1935, age 18, St Paul's, Ashton).

 

4  William Cowgill b 17 Dec 1918, d 1991, m 1946, Gladys (Allinson) Walsh, b 22 Jul 1925, d 1998.

    Children: known are - Gladys, Kathleen, William

 

5  Catherine Cowgill b 1922, d 1923.

 

6  Charlotte Cowgill b 1922, m 1949, Charles Watson.

 

7  Gertrude Cowgill b 1925, m(1) 1943, St John's, Dukinfield, Harry Stafford; m(2) 1963, William Mellor; m(3) 1972, Francis Michael Murray.

 

3  Elizabeth Ann Cowgill b 1897, Ashton Under Lyne, m 24 Dec 1917, Christ Church, Dukenfield, James Spence.

 

4  Kate Cowgill (1st) b Jan 1900, Ashton Under Lyne, bur 28 Mar 1901, aged 18m.

 

5  Kate Cowgill (2nd) b 1905, bur 5 Jan 1906, age 1m.

 

6? Edward Cowgill b and d 1907, Ashton Under Lyne. Note: Edward's birth record lists him as son of Charlotte Ann Cowgill, no father's name given.

 

Ann Cowgill (see link).

 

6  Nancy Cowgill (no birth data, but likely David’s dau), m 4 Jun 1815, St Michael’s, Ashton under Lyne, George Burgess.

Child: known is - Mary

 

Mary Cowgill b 17 Feb 1805 (bapt 14 Apr 1805, St Michael’s, Ashton under Lyne), probably the Mary Cowgill who m 1 Oct 1838, St Michael’s, James Conley. No further information.

 

7  Samuel Cowgill (no birth data, but likely David's son), m 10 May 1813, St Mary's, Stockport, Margaret Brockbank, b ca 1795. This must be the widow Margaret Cowgill who (re)married 10 Jan 1835 in Manchester to John Franklin.

 

8  Joseph Cowgill bapt 28 Oct 1798, St Michael’s, Ashton under Lyne, bur 4 Jun 1860, age 59, Wakefield Road Baptist Church, Stalybridge, m(1) 8 Feb 1829, St Mary's, Stockport, Betty Shatwell (also as Shotwell), bur 13 Jun 1847, age 45, Wakefield Road Baptist Church; m(2) 7 Aug 1849, St Mary’s, Stockport, as her 2nd husband, Matilda (Nightingale) Hintchcliffe, b ca 1801, d 1890 (bur 17 Sep 1890). Joseph was a bookkeeper and clerk at a cotton mill in Dukinfield. His dau Elizabeth emigrated to America (see link).

Children: known are – Mary, William (1st), Eliza, Harriet, Ann, Elizabeth "Betty", Joseph, Allen, David, Sarah, Frances, William (2nd), Nancy, Matilda

 

1  Mary Cowgill b ca 1826. No information after 1841.

 

2  William Cowgill (1st) b 1829 (bapt 3 Jan 1830), Ashton under Lyne, d 1845.

 

3  Eliza Cowgill b 1833 (bapt 5 Jan 1834, St Michael's, Ashton under Lyne), m 18 Mar 1855, St Michael's, Reuben Radcliffe.

 

4  Harriet Cowgill bapt 8 May 1836, St Michael's, Ashton under Lyne, d before 1881 (?), m 17 Jun 1859, John Thomas Mitchell. Two of Harriet's children were lodging with her step-mother in 1881. One of her sons was Joseph Cowgill Mitchell, b 1860, d 1892.

 

5  Ann(e) Cowgill bapt 22 Jul 1838, St Michael’s, Ashton under Lyne, d 9 Nov 1905, bur Dukinfield Cem., m(1) 1859, John Bridgehouse; m(2) William Lister. Ann and husband were lodging with her step-mother in 1861. Sisters Matilda and Nancy were lodging with her family in 1901. Ann and John had a son, Joseph Cowgill Bridgehouse, b ca 1867. He is probably the father of Ann Cowgill Bridgehouse, b 1908.

 

Elizabeth "Betty" Cowgill (see link).

 

7  Joseph Cowgill bapt 25 Sep 1842, St Michael’s, Ashton under Lyne, d 23 Nov 1898 (bur 26 Nov 1898, Burnley Cem.), m 23 Jul 1865, St Mary’s, Stockport, Margaret Wright, b ca 1843, Warrington, d 1893 (bur 4 Feb 1893, Burnley Cem.). Joseph was a painter in Burnley. His dau Elizabeth emigrated to America (see link).

Children: known are – Joseph, Margaret, Annette, John, Elizabeth, Alfred, Sarah, unknown

 

1  Joseph Edward Cowgill b 1866, Burnley, d 8 Sep 1937, m 1889, Susannah Ingham, b ca 1869, Burnley, d 1936. Joseph was a weaver in Burnley.

Children: known are – John, Edward, Alfred, James, Leonard

 

1  John William Cowgill b 27 Apr 1890, Burnley, d 1980, m 1918, Eliza Melville Christie, b 13 Nov 1890, d 1973.

    Child: known is - Edward

 

2  Edward Cowgill b 1897, Burnley, d 27 Aug 1917 (bur Hurstwood General Baptist Chapelyard, near east side of main path), a casualty of World War I. Edward was a private in the 1st Bn, Royal Fusiliers.

 

3  Alfred Cowgill (twin) b 2 Jan 1900, Burnley, d 1934, m 1927, Methodist Chapel (Colne Rd), Nelson, Dorothy Margaret Shaw, b ca 1905. Dorothy remarried 6 Mar 1952, Hamer Hart.

 

4  James Arthur Cowgill (twin) b 2 Jan 1900, Burnley, d 1969, m 1925, St Stephen's, Burnley, Evelyn Thornton, b 28 Oct 1897, d 1969.

 

5  Leonard Cowgill b 1903, Burnley, bur 27 Dec 1904, Burnley Cem.

 

2  Margaret Ann Cowgill b 1867, Ashton under Lyne, d 27 Feb 1919 (bur 3 Mar 1919, Burnley Cem.). A weaver in Burnley in 1901, lodging with siblings.

 

3  Annette Cowgill b 1870, Burnley, d 1871 (bur 7 Jun 1871, Burnley Cem.).

 

4  John William Cowgill b 1871, Burnley, d 23 Feb 1938, m 1907, Lucy Smith, b ca 1881, d 1929. John was a weaver in Burnley.

Child: known is - George

 

1  George Robert Cowgill b 16 Nov 1911, d 1985, m 1935, Congregational Chapel (Hightown), Crewe, Emily L. R. Lynch.

    Children: known are - Melvyn, Robert

 

Elizabeth Cowgill (see link).

 

6  Alfred Cowgill b 1877, Burnley, d 1962, m 27 Dec 1902, St Catherine's, Burnley, Mary Jane Holt, b ca 1880, d 1952. A weaver in Burnley in 1901, lodging with siblings. Alfred was a veteran of World War I.

Children: known are – Mary Jane, Alfred

 

1  Mary Jane Cowgill b 24 Oct 1903, Burnley, m 5 Jul 1928, St Andrew's, Burnley, Albert Spencer, b ca 1902, son of William Spencer.

 

2  Alfred Cowgill b 2 Jul 1910, Burnley, d 1968, m 1948, Florrie (Hughes) Davies, b 1 Oct 1902, d 1992.

 

7  Sarah Alice Cowgill b 1879, Burnley, m 1900, St Catherine's, Burnley, John Thomas Moulds, b ca 1875. John was a weaver in Burnley in 1901.

 

8  unknown Cowgill, stillborn child bur 10 Apr 1882, Burnley Cem.

 

8  Allen Cowgill b 14 Nov 1844 (bapt 29 Dec 1844, St Michael’s), Ashton under Lyne, bur 11 Apr 1847, age 2, Wakefield Road Baptist Church.

 

9  David Cowgill (twin) b 1847, d 1847.

 

10 Sarah Cowgill (twin) b 1847, d 1847.

 

11 Frances Mary Cowgill bapt 22 Sep 1850, St John’s, Dukinfield, bur 18 Aug 1852, age 2, Wakefield Road Baptist Church.

 

12 William Nightingale Cowgill bapt 27 Jun 1852, St John’s, Dukinfield, bur 29 Aug 1852, aged 7m, Wakefield Road Baptist Church.

 

13 Nancy Cowgill b 22 Mar 1853, Ashton under Lyne, d 23 Apr 1933 (bur 27 Apr 1933, New St George, Stalybridge). Lodging with sister Ann in 1901.

 

14 Matilda Jane Cowgill b 7 Dec 1857, Ashton under Lyne, bur 24 Apr 1944, St Michael and All Angels’, Mottram in Longdendale. Lodging with sister Ann in 1901.

 

9  James Cowgill, son of David and Hannah Cowgill), b 15 Jun 1801 (bapt 23 Aug 1801, St Michael's, Ashton under Lyne), bur 19 Apr 1847, age 45, All Hallows', Almondbury. James described as of the "poor house".

 

3  William Cowgill, b ca 1710 (probably the child of John bapt 19 Jun 1709 at St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton – the register entry is in poor condition), d 23 Jun 1764 (bur 24 Jun 1764), aged 54, bur Kirkheaton, m 30 Dec 1742, Kirkheaton, Elizabeth Bamford from Huddersfield, b ca 1718, d 22 Dec 1801, age 83y, bur Kirkheaton. On 17 Dec 1743 William signed a lease for 21 years for a messuage (apparently a house that was being rebuilt) in Kirkheaton from a Richard Beaumont. William was a coal owner and innkeeper who had dwelt at the Church Stile or Kirk Steel, the inn that looks across to the cemetery. Nephew James Cowgill (son of John) was the landlord there after him. William’s will, probated 4 Jul 1765, mentions only his wife Elizabeth, and daus Mary and Eleanor. He appeared to have a large estate. Elizabeth is likely the Elizabeth Cowgill who m (remarried) 9 Apr 1766, Richard Beaumont (father of her son-in-law to be?).

Children: known are – Mary, Eleanor

 

1  Mary Cowgill bapt 6 Mar 1744, Kirkheaton, d 29 Oct 1764, age 19y, “spinster of Heaton”, bur 1 Nov 1764, Kirkheaton.

 

2  Eleanor Cowgill bapt 24 Jun 1747 (as Ellen), Kirkheaton, d 24 May 1782, m 14 Dec 1768, Kirkheaton (“both this parish”), Richard Beaumont Jr, d 7 Mar 1811, age 62y.

 

4  Henry Cowgill, bur 27 Oct 1754, Kirkheaton, m Mary ____, bur 4 Apr 1754, Kirkheaton. Henry described as of Dalton. No other information. Note: No birth information or marriage information on Henry, so placement is tentative.

Child: suspected is - William

 

1  William Cowgill, bur 25 Dec 1788, Kirkheaton, m(1) Ann ____, bur 18 Mar 1751, Kirkheaton; m(2) 16 Jan 1755 (“William a widower”), Kirkheaton, Frances Jessup of Lepton; m(3) Mary ____, bur 3 Jun 1769 (d in childbirth?), Kirkheaton. William lived at Dalton. He was a church warden for Kirkheaton Parish Church for 1753/1754.

Children: known are – Betty, Hannah, Henry, Elizabeth, Jeremiah, John

 

1  Betty Cowgill bapt 21 Aug 1748, bur (as "Bettie"), 18 Feb 1757, St John the Baptist's, Kirkheaton.

 

2  Hannah Cowgill, bur 16 Dec 1750, Kirkheaton.

 

3  Henry Cowgill bapt 17 Aug 1755, Kirkheaton,

 

4  Elizabeth Cowgill bapt 13 Nov 1757, Kirkheaton,

 

5  Jeremiah Cowgill bapt 7 Sep 1760, Kirkheaton, bur 27 Dec 1761, St John the Baptist, Kirkheaton.

 

6  John Cowgill, bur 3 Jun 1769, Kirkheaton.

 

Jonathan Cowgill bapt 28 Nov 1680, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven, bur 11 Apr 1762, Carleton in Craven, m(1) 14 Feb 1704/5, Carleton in Craven, Elizabeth Heaton; m(2) 31 Jan 1733, Kildwick, Ann Crosley (“Jonathan Cowgill of the Parish of Carleton, Labourer, & Ann Crosley of Steeton in this Parish, Spinstr, were Married by Mr Jackson, Curate of Silsden, by Banns certify'd by Mr Tennant, Vicr of Carleton”), bur 7 Jun 1752, Carleton in Craven. Jonathan was described as "of Cowling, weaver" on son John's bapt entry of 1721.

Children: known are – Margaret, Mary, John (1st), Hannah (1st), Hannah (2nd), Sarah, John (2nd)

 

1  Margaret (Margret) Cowgill bapt 15 Sep 1705, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven, bur there 26 Aug 1706.

 

2  Mary Cowgill bapt 16 Feb 1706/7, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven, bur there 4 May 1735, a “spinster”.

 

3  John Cowgill (1st) bapt 16 Oct 1708, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven, bur there 18 Oct 1708.

 

4  Hannah Cowgill (1st) bapt 30 Oct 1709, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven, bur there 3 Nov 1709.

 

5  Hannah Cowgill (2nd) bapt 31 Oct 1710, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven

 

6  Sarah Cowgill bapt 16 Aug 1713, Carleton in Craven, bur there 24 Aug 1713. Note: a Sarah Cowgill, dau of Jonathan of Kirkhill, is listed as baptized at All Saints, Broughton, in Aug 1713 (actual day illegible in the Bishop’s transcript). Same person, or a second dau Sarah?

 

7  John Cowgill (2nd) bapt 5 Mar 1720/1, St Andrews, Kildwick. No further information.

 

Robert Cowgill, son of Ambrose and Grace Cowgill, bapt 20 Dec 1646, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven, bur 3 Feb 1707/8, Leeds, m 4 Jun 1679, St Peter’s, Leeds, Grace Hargrave. Burial record describes Robert as of Leeds, Lower (as “Lowr”) headrow (sic). Robert may have had a 2nd marriage to an Ann ____, bur 11 Mar 1686 as wife of Robert Cogill. He may also have had three other children: a John Cogill, son of Robert, bur 6 Sep 1685; and two infant Cogills, children of Robert, bur 8 Mar 1686. Another possible child was a Joseph Coggill (also shown as Coghill and Cockhill), whose line died out in Leeds in the early 1720s. Note: the baptism is correct, but the remaining information belongs to a family that begins with a Robert Cowgill in Leeds who, by date of marriage, seems to fit here (but may not). This line may not even be Cowgill – names in parish registers, census records, and UK vital statistics vary over the years and include Cowdill/Cowdell and Coldwell/Couldwell as well as Cowgill, Coghill, and Coggill. There apparently were families by the other surnames in that area (DNA would clear this up), and their pronunciations may have confused parish clerks.

Children: known are - William, Robert, John

 

1  William Cowgill b 18 Mar 1679/80 (bapt 28 Mar 1680, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 17 Dec 1747 (as Coggill), m 27 Oct 1703 (as Coggill), St Peter's, Martha Dobson, bur 11 Jan 1753 (record has "widow of Vicar Lane"). Administration of William's estate, probated 16 Jan 1747/8 (Yorkshire Wills, vol 90) "of the Goods etc of William Coghill late of p. Leeds cloth draper decesed(sic) was granted to Martha Coghill his widow & Relict." The admin bond was dated 26 Dec 1747 and signed (by marks) by Martha as well as Charles Clapham and Thomas Knapton, both cloth drapers of Leeds. An inventory, naming William as Coggill, is attached. Martha’s will, probated Jun 1753 (vol 97 fol 130) states "I Martha Coggill of Leeds County York widow infirm of body sound of mind …. First I give and bequeath to William Coggill the sum of twenty pounds, also I give to Stephen Shires Husband of my daughter Mary the like sum of twenty pounds. I give to William Smith formerly husband of my daughter Hannah deceased the like sum of twenty pounds all household goods and shop goods and all possessions possessed and enjoyed and make my executor.” Witnesses were Samuel Dobson, Joseph Dobson, and Frank Chambers.

Children: known are - William, Mary, Martha, Sarah, Elizabeth, Hannah, Samuel

 

1  William Coggill b 22 Mar 1704 (bapt 24 Mar 1704, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 23 Jun 1771 (or 23 Apr 1776?), m(1) 17 May 1724, Rothwell (both of Leeds), Rachel Stockdale, b 20 Jan 1701 (bapt 12 Feb 1701, St Peter's), dau of Henry Stockdale, possibly the Mrs Coghill  "W. of Will. Coghill" bur 6 Dec 1741; m(2) 17 May 1744 (date of marriage bond), Deborah Dale. Note: this marriage is not listed in known parish records, so may not have been consummated.

Children: known are - Rachel, Henry, William

 

1  Rachel Coggill b 24 Nov 1724 (bapt 21 Dec 1724, as Coghill, St Peter's), bur 6 Feb 1724/5, St John the Evangelist's, Leeds.

      

2  Henry Coggill b 23 May 1726 (bapt 20 Jun 1726, St Peter's). No further information (is he the child of William bur 9 Nov 1740?).

      

3  William Coggill (1st) bapt 20 Nov 1727, Rothwell, bur 23 Nov 1727 ("Wm. ye son of Wm. Coggill late of Leeds").

       

2  Mary Coggill b 26 Nov 1705 (bapt 14 Dec 1705, St Peter's), Leeds, m(1) 3 Feb 1728/1729 (as Coghill), John Winder, by license; m(2) 20 Feb 1736, Leeds, Stephen Shires.

 

3  Martha Coggill b 21 Jul 1708 (bapt 12 Aug 1708, St Peter's), Leeds, d early (no mention in her mother’s will)? Is she the Martha Coghill who m 10 Oct 1743, Jonathan Crawford (a Martha Crawford was bur 22 Feb 1747), or the Martha Coghill who m 22 Jan 1743/4 to Robert Jackson?

  

4  Sarah Coggill b 30 Oct 1710 (bapt 23 Nov 1710, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 3 Sep 1726.

   

5  Elizabeth Coggill b 12 Nov 1714 (bapt 16 Dec 1714, St Peter's), Leeds, d early (no mention in her mother's will).

  

6  Hannah Coggill b 12 Jan 1717 (bapt 7 Feb 1717, St Peter's), Leeds, d bef 1753 (per her mother's will), m 1 May 1738 (as Coghill), St Peter's, William Smith. William was executor of his mother-in-law's will and recipient of her "shop goods" and personal possessions.

 

7  Samuel Coggill b 22 Sep 1720 (bapt 20 Oct 1720, St Peter's, as Coghill), Leeds, bur 5 Sep 1736, as Coghill, St John the Evangelist's, Leeds.

 

2  Robert Cowgill b 28 Feb 1681/2 (bapt 19 Mar 1681/2, St Peter's, as Coggil), Leeds, bur 6 Sep 1732 (as Coghill), St John the Evangelist's, Leeds, "of Briggate".

 

3  John Cowgill b 30 Jan 1695/6 (bapt 16 Feb 1696, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 18 Nov 1742 (as Coghill), St Peter's, m 24 Mar 1716/17 (as Coggill), St Peter's, Mary Atkinson, one of three widow Coggills bur at Leeds 29 Feb 1764, 11 Jul 1765, or 6 Sep 1766. Was the Christopher Coghill bur 5 Jun 1743 at St Peter's ("son of widow Coghill") another child of John's?

Children: known are - Amy, Charles, Richard, Othwell, Ottawell, John, Marmaduke

   

1  Amy Coggill b 23 Dec 1718 (bapt 21 Jan 1719, St Peter's, as Coghill), Leeds. No further information.

 

2  Charles Coggill b 6 Oct 1722 (bapt 5 Nov 1722, St Peter's, as Coghill), Briggate, Leeds, bur 22 Sep 1773, age 50 (of decline), St Peter's, m 29 Jan 1742/3, St Peter's, Grace Brooke, bur 10 Apr 1785, age 64y, of palsy.

Children: known are - George, William

    

1  George Coggill b 28 Mar 1745 (bapt 15 Apr 1745, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 2 Nov 1778, m 29 Jun 1767, St Peter's, Elizabeth "Betty" Asquith, bur 7 Aug 1785, widow of Timber Bridge, age 44y, of cancer. George's estate was administered 22 Feb 1779 (Yorkshire admin, reg 123, of Leeds): "of the Goods etc of George Coggill late of Leeds deced (deceased) was granted to Elizabeth Coggill his widow & Relict". Bond co-signed by Samuel Wade salesman and Thomas Askquith (also as Askwith) joiner. George was described as a butcher of Leeds in the bond document.

Children: known are – Christopher (1st), Christopher (2nd), John

     

1  Christopher Coggill (1st) b 1 Nov 1771 (bapt 5 Dec 1771, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 3 Feb 1772.

    

2  Christopher Coggill (2nd) b 14 Aug 1773 (bapt 16 Sep 1773, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 26 Jan 1774 (record has son of Charles of Timble Bridge, but must be Geoge's son).

       

3  John Coggill b 4 Jul 1775 (bapt 6 Aug 1775, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 22 Apr 1784 (as Coghill), age 8y (no cause given), son of William Coghill (must be a mistake for George, or was he George William?).

                  

2  William Coggill b 27 Jul 1747 (bapt 27 Aug 1747, St Peter's, as Coghill), Leeds, bur 24 Apr 1823, St Peter's, age 75, "married man of Boar Lane", m 25 Dec 1766, St Peter's, Mary Fawcett. Note: William's age at marriage (19) usually required parental consent. It is possible, though unlikely, this marriage belongs to the William b 22 Mar 1704. Mary is likely the Mary Coggill who (re)married 5 Nov 1826 in Leeds to William Craven, a coal miner, "Mary a widow". 

Children: known are - Hannah, George, son, Mary, Grace (1st), son, Charles (1st), John (1st), Grace (2nd), John (2nd), Charles (2nd)

 

1  Hannah Coggill b 14 Apr 1767 (bapt 29 May 1767, St Peter's), Leeds, m 27 Sep 1790, Leeds (William Coggill a witness), William Cooper, a cloth dresser.

 

2  George Coggill b 13 May 1769 (bapt 9 Jul 1769 as Cockhill, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 27 Dec 1789, age 20, "of decline", m 1 Oct 1787, St Peter's, Lydia Hirst. George was described as a shoemaker at marriage. Did Lydia remarry (as Cogell) at Rothwell 14 Jan 1793 to Thomas Backhouse?

Child: known is - Mary

 

1  Mary Coggill b 13 Feb 1788 (bapt 24 Mar 1788, St Peter's), Leeds

 

3  son Coggill bur 13 May 1771 (as Cockell), St Peter's, Leeds.

 

4  Mary Coggill b 6 Aug 1772 (bapt 3 Sep 1772, St Peter's), Leeds, probably the Mary Coggill who m 11 Mar 1793, St Peter's, Thomas Hueson.

 

5  Grace Coggill (1st) b 27 Dec 1774 (bapt 6 Mar 1775, St Peter's), Leeds, d early.

 

6  son Coggill bur 13 Apr 1777, St Peter's, Leeds.

 

7  Charles Coggill (1st) b 27 May 1779 (bapt 17 Jun 1779, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 26 Nov 1780, age 1 (measles). Note: a marginal note in the parish register for births says "It should be Cockell as it appears from the Register of Burials".

 

8  John Coggill (1st) b 27 May 1779 (no baptismal entry), bur 17 Jun 1779, age 3w (fitts).

 

9  Grace Coggill (2nd) b 25 Jul 1781 (bapt 19 Sep 1781, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 18 Jan 1785, age 3 (small pox).

 

10 John Coggill (2nd) b 15 Oct 1783 (bapt 10 Nov 1783, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 11 Jan 1785, age 1 (small pox).

 

11 Charles Coggill (2nd) b 15 Jan 1787 (bapt 20 Feb 1787, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 16 Dec 1821, age 34, St Peter's, Leeds, m 1 Oct 1805, Rothwell, Mary Lacock. Charles served in the 1st Royal Veteran Battalion, 34th Foot Regiment, from 1811 until discharged aged 30 in 1816. He was later shown as a dyer in Leeds. Mary remarried 2 Jun 1823 to Thomas Miller, a sgt in the 11th Light Dragoons, later a weaver in Bingley.

Children: known are - William, George, Ann

 

1  William Coggill b 26 Oct 1807 (bapt 22 Nov 1807, St Peter's), Leeds, d early (no further information)?

 

2  George Coggill b 15 May 1818 (bapt 26 Jul 1818, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 17 May 1819.

 

3  Ann Fawcett Coggill b 23 May 1820 (bapt 16 Jul 1820, St Peter's), Leeds. Ann was lodging with her mother in Bingley in 1841. No further information (she could be the Ann Fawcett Cowgill who m John Longbottom in Keighley in 1845).

 

3  Richard Coggill b 30 Jun 1723 (bapt 13 Jul 1723, St Peter's, as Coghill), Leeds, possibly the Richard Cockwell of Briggate bur 25 Dec 1759. He may have (marriage record?) been married to one of three widow Coggills bur at Leeds 29 Feb 1764, 11 Jul 1765, or 6 Sep 1766. No further information.

 

4  Othwell Coggill b 27 Oct 1724 (bapt 19 Nov 1724, St Peter's, as Coghill), Leeds, bur 20 Nov 1724, St Peter's, as Coghill.

 

5  Ottawell Coggill b 8 Jul 1726 (bapt 8 Aug 1726, as Coggel, St Peter's), Briggate, Leeds, bur 1 Apr 1771 (as Cockell), Leeds, m(1) 22 Jan 1743/4, St Peter's, Leeds (as Coghill), Mary Percy, bur 13 Apr 1762 (record has "w of Atwell Coggill"), Leeds; m(2) 9 Jun 1762, All Saints', Wakefield, Elizabeth Naylor. Lived at Call Lane, Leeds. Elizabeth is probably the widow Elizabeth Coggill who m 30 Aug 1774 at Leeds to Jonathan Crabtree, a shoemaker. Note: the bur record shown for Ottowell states "son", but must be a mistake for Ottowell himself.

Children: known are - Robert, child, James, Mary, John, Sarah, son, son, Samuel, Hannah, Ann

             

1  Robert Coggill b 26 Jun 1744 (bapt 25 Jul 1744, St Peter's, as Coghill), Call Lane, Leeds, m 21 Oct 1765 (as Couldwell), Leeds, Hannah Watson.

Children: known are - Joseph, Robert, John, Mary, Sarah, Rachel, William, Thomas

           

1  Joseph Coldwell b 18 Jan 1768 (bapt 20 Mar 1768, St Peter's), Leeds, probably the Joseph Cowgill who m 12 Sep 1790,  St Michael & All Angel's, Thornhill, Sarah Dixon. A witness was Benjamin Cowgill (unknown). No further information.

           

2  Robert Coldwell b 21 Mar 1770 (bapt 13 May 1770, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 16 Apr 1857, Thornhill, m 24 Oct 1790 (as Robert Cowgill, banns announced on 10, 17, and 24 Oct), at Flocton Chapel, Thornhill (or Kirkheaton?), Elizabeth Haigh of Kirkheaton, bur 23 Sep 1835. Robert was a clothier in Briestfield, Whitley Lower in 1841; listed as a pauper and woolen weaver there in 1851. His home was given as Heley (Healey, near Thornhill) in 1794; Briestfield in 1798. Note: Was there another son, Enoch Couldwell, d 1839, m 23 Mar 1818, Thornhill, Ann Dixon?

Children: known are – Joseph, Fanny, Hannah, Uriah

 

1  Joseph Cowgill bapt 1 Feb 1794, Flockton, Thornhill, bur 26 Oct 1844, age 49, m 19 Jul 1819 (as Joseph Couldwell), St Michael’s, Thornhill, Charlotte Senior, b ca 1791, Whitley Lower, bur 23 Jun 1859 (as Coldwell), Thornhill. Joseph was a cloth weaver in Briestfield in 1841.

Children: known are – Maboth, Elizabeth, Martha, James, William

 

1  Maboth Cowgill bapt 11 Jun 1820 (as Cowdwell), Thornhill, d 1850, m 26 Nov 1839 (as Cowdell), Charles Walshaw. Two of her children were lodging with Charlotte Cowgill in 1851.

 

2  Elizabeth Cowgill bapt 25 Dec 1821 (as Cowdwell), Thornhill, bur 13 Jan 1823, Thornhill (from Southwood), aged 1.

 

3  Martha Cowgill bapt 31 Aug 1823 (as Coldwell), Thornhill, bur 5 Nov 1844 (as Coldwell), age 21.

 

4  James Cowgill bapt 6 Nov 1825 (as Coldwell), bur 24 Nov 1847 (as Cowdell), age 22.

 

5  William Cowgill bapt 28 Apr 1831 (as Couldwell), Thornhill, d 1891, m(1) 16 Apr 1854 (as William Cowgill), Susannah Bradshaw, b ca 1833, d 1878; m(2) 1878 (as Coldwell), Grace Dews, b ca 1830, d 1882; m(3) 1883, as her 2nd husband, Elizabeth Bray, b ca 1838, d 1917. William was a woolen spinner lodging with his mother in 1851; a colliery laborer (as Coldwell) in Thornhill in 1861; in Thorpe as a laborer by 1871; in Earls Heaton by 1891.

Children: known are – Mary, Ezra, Robert, Enoch, Walter, Harriet, William

 

1  Mary Cowgill b 1854, Thornhill, m 1875, to unknown.

 

2  Ezra Cowgill b 1859 (as Coldwell), Overton, d 1914, m 1883, Mary Elizabeth Lucas, b ca 1861, d 1917. Ezra was a coal miner in Ossett.

Children: known are – Eva, Lilian, Gertrude, Nora, Mary, Hubert

 

1  Eva Cowgill b 1884 (as Coldwell), Ossett, m 1907, Earle Ward, b ca 1885.

 

2  Lilian Cowgill b 1887 (as Coldwell), Ossett, d 1919.

 

3  Gertrude Cowgill b 1889 (as Coldwell), Ossett, d 1919.

 

4  Nora Cowgill b 1892 (as Coldwell), Ossett

 

5  Mary Elizabeth Cowgill b 1895 (as Coldwell), Ossett

 

6  Hubert Cowgill b 1898 (as Coldwell), Ossett, d 1913.

 

3  Robert Cowgill b 1861 (as Coldwell), Overton, bur 12 Sep 1876.

 

4  Enoch Thornton Cowgill b 1863 (as Coldwell), Overton. Enoch was a coal miner, lodging with brother Ezra in 1891, and by himself in Conisbrough in 1901.

 

5  Walter Cowgill b 1865 (as Coldwell), Overton, d 1914, m 16 Mar 1889, St Peter’s, Earls Heaton, Mary Dransfield, b ca 1866, d 1891. Walter was a coal miner in Earls Heaton in 1891. He is shown by himself in 1901 in Conisbrough, in Ossett by 1911. 

Children: known are – Ernest, Clara

 

1  Ernest Cowgill b 1890 (as Coldwell), Earls Heaton, d 1954. Ernest was lodging with his Dransfield grandparents in 1901, with a Dransfield aunt in 1911.

 

2  Clara Dransfield Cowgill b 1891 (as Coldwell), Earls Heaton, d 1892.

 

6  Harriet Cowgill b 1867 (as Couldwell), Overton, m 21 Nov 1891, Thornhill, Dick Swallow, a miner of Thornhill Edge.

 

7  William Henry Cowgill b 1869 (as Coldwell), Alverthorpe, d 1925, m 1 Sep 1894 (as Coldwell), St Peter’s, Earls Heaton, Sarah Elizabeth Roberts, b ca 1873. William was a coal miner in Soothill Nether in 1901, in Crofton by 1911. Note: the 1911 census indicates Sarah had two other children who d early.

Children: known are – Edith, William, George, Annie, Lily

 

1  Edith Cowgill b 1896 (as Coldwell), Earls Heaton, m 1923, Royston Burnley.

 

2  William Cowgill b 18 May 1899 (as Coldwell), Earls Heaton , d 1972.

 

3  George Cowgill b 1900 (as Coldwell), Earls Heaton

 

4  Annie Coldwell b 1903, Earls Heaton, m 1927, George H. Leeming.

 

5  Lily Coldwell b 1908, Crofton

 

2  Fanny Cowgill (birth record has Cowdill) bapt 25 Dec 1795, Thornhill, bur 26 Nov 1868, Thornhill, m 15 Feb 1818 (as Fanny Couldwell), Thornhill, Samuel Ledgard.

 

3  Hannah Cougill bapt 23 Dec 1798, Flockton, Thornhill, m 24 Feb 1820 (as Ann Couldwell), St Michael’s, Thornhill, Joseph Fearnley, b ca 1793. In 1851, Joseph was an agricultural laborer dwelling next to Robert Cowgill in Whitley Lower.

 

4  Uriah Cowgill b 6 Nov 1803 (bapt 9 Dec 1803 as Coldwell, High Street Chapel Methodist New Connexion, Huddersfield), Briestfield, d 17 Apr 1889, Thornhill, m 29 Aug 1825 (as Coldwell), St Michael’s, Thornhill, Mary Saville, b ca 1801, Crigglestone, d 29 Oct 1885. Uriah was a coal miner in Whitley Lower.

Children: known are – Harriet, Robert, James, Selina, Noah, Henry, Sarah

 

1  Harriet Cowgill bapt 26 Mar 1826 (as Coldwell), Thornhill, m 25 Dec 1848 (as Coldwell), Henry Fisher, b ca 1823. Henry was a coal miner in Whitley Lower in 1851.

Child: known is - Mary

 

Mary Frances Cowgill b 1846, Whitley Lower

 

2  Robert Cowgill bapt 12 Jan 1829 (IGI has 1830; as Coldwell), Thornhill, bur 24 Jan 1829, aged two weeks, Thornhill.

 

3  James Uriah Cowgill bapt 26 Dec 1832, Thornhill, bur 7 Apr 1849 (as Coldwell), age 16.

 

4  Selina Coldwell bapt 20 Jul 1835, Whitley Lower, Thornhill, m 17 Jan 1863, Thornhill, Henry Fearnley, b ca 1833. Henry was a coal miner in Whitley Lower in 1871.

Children: known are (others after marriage, and there may have been a son Joe, d 1859, and dau Ellen, d 1859) – John, Emma, Elizabeth

 

John Cowgill b 1854 (bapt 22 Jul 1855 as Coldwell), Thornhill, bur 18 Apr 1859.

 

Emma Cowgill b 1856 (bapt 19 July 1857, St Michael and All Angels'), Whitley Lower, m 1879, Walter Micklethwaite, b ca 1856. Walter was a coal miner in Whitley Lower in 1881. Emma is listed as a granddaughter of Uriah (Sr).

 

Elizabeth Cowgill b 1861 (as Cowdell), m 22 Dec 1888 (as Cowgill), St Mary and Michael's, Whitley Lower, Arthur Scargill, b ca 1858, a railway platelayer.

 

5  Noah Cowgill bapt 2 Jul 1837 (as Coldwell), Whitley Lower, Thornhill, bur 27 Oct 1897, age 62, m(1) 12 Nov 1861, Kirkheaton, Mary Lee (nee Chambers), a widow, b ca 1829, d 12 Feb 1871; m(2) 1871, Ellen (Fisher?) Armitage, b ca 1829, bur 19 Jul 1906, St Mary & St Michael's, Whitfield Lower. Noah was a coal worker, lodging with his parents in 1871; by himself as an agricultural laborer in Briestfield in 1881; as a prisoner (occupation: colliery laborer) in the Wakefield prison in 1891. Ellen was lodging with her father, William Fisher, in Thornhill in 1881.

Children: known are – Uriah, John

 

1  Uriah Cowgill b 1862, Whitley Lower, d 1904. Uriah was a farm laborer, lodging with his aunt, Sarah Jane (Cowgill) Heaton, in 1901.

 

2  John William Cowgill b 1865 (bapt 31 Jul 1867, Horbury Ebenezer Church), Briestfield, bur 31 Dec 1867, age 2, St Michael and All Angels', Thornhill.

 

6  Henry Cowgill bapt 25 Sep 1842 (as Coldwell), Whitley Lower, bur 10 Feb 1902, age 61, m 22 Jul 1860, Kirkheaton, Hannah Wood, b ca 1839, Whitley Upper, bur 19 Jan 1920, age 79. Henry was a coal miner in Whitley Lower.

Children: known are – Herbert, Mary, Robert, Sarah Jane, Rosaline, James, Friend, Wright, Harriet, Sarah

 

1  Herbert Cowgill b 1860, Whitley Lower (as Cowdell), m(1) 27 Sep 1890 (as Cowgill), St Peter's, Stanley, Eliza Perks, b ca 1870, dau of William Perks; m(2) 1909. Elizabeth (Clark) Scott, a widow. Herbert was a coal miner, lodging with his parents in 1881 (not located in 1891); in West Cornforth, Durham, in 1901 (strangely, listed as Robert); later in Sunderland.

Children: known are - William, Alice, George, Mary, Violet, Elizabeth, Beatrice, Herbert

 

1  William Henry Cowgill b 1891 (as Cowdill), Stanley, d 1961, m 20 Mar 1920, Northumberland, Elizabeth Ann Alderson, b ca 1895, d 1962. William was a coal miner in Northumberland in 1911.

    Children: known are - William, Joseph, Florence, George, Ruth

 

2  Alice Cowgill b 1892, Thornhill, m 1911, Durham, Albert E. Johnson.

 

3  George Cowgill b 9 Sep 1894, Cornforth, Durham, d 1903.

 

4  Mary Ann Cowgill b 20 Nov 1896, West Cornforth, Durham, m 1917, Durham, Thomas Ramshaw.

 

5  Violet Cowgill b 5 Jun 1900, West Cornforth, Durham, m 1919, Northumberland, Matthew Sanderson. Violet was with her brother in 1911.

 

6  Elizabeth Harriet Cowgill b 1905, Durham, m(1) 1925, John W. Mitchell; m(2) 1929, Joseph G. Norwood.

 

7  Beatrice Emily Cowgill b 1910, Durham, m 1927, Thomas R. Dewdney.

 

8  Herbert William Cowgill b 11 Dec 1912, Durham, d 1980, m 1944, Annie Morrison, b 21 Dec 1921, d 2005.

    Children: known are - Patricia, Margaret

 

2  Mary Ann Cowgill b 19 Mar 1862, Whitley Lower (as Cowdell), m 8 Oct 1898, Thornhill, James Michael Holt, b ca 1864. James was a railway drayman in Thornhill in 1901.

Child: known is - Harry

 

Harry Cowgill b 1885 (bapt 17 Jun 1885, St Michael’s), Thornhill, d 1949, m 11 Aug 1917, Holy Innocents', Thornhill Lees, Edith Pickering, b ca 1894, d 7 May 1966. In 1901, Harry was a coal miner hurrier lodging with his grandparents (shown as “parents” on the census, but baptismal record has Mary Ann as mother).

 

3  Robert Cowgill b 1865, Whitley Lower, bur 26 Oct 1951, age 86. Robert entered the US (port of entry New York) in 1883; by 1891 he was back in the UK as a coal miner in Darton.

 

4  Sarah Jane Cowgill b 1866 (bapt 10 Mar 1870, St Michael’s), Whitley Lower, m 4 Oct 1890, Thornhill, Richard Denton, b ca 1867. Richard was a glass bottle blower in Thornhill in 1901.

 

5  Rosaline Cowgill b 1869 (bapt 10 Mar 1870, St Michael’s), Thornhill, m 25 Nov 1899, Thornhill, Harry Dobson, b ca 1877. Harry was a bottle crate maker in Thornhill in 1901.

 

6  James Henry Cowgill b 1871 (bapt 19 Apr 1872, St Michael’s), Thornhill, bur 19 Jun 1873, age 1, St Michael & All Angel's, Thornhill.

 

7  Friend Cowgill b 1874 (bapt 29 Mar 1874, St Michael's), Thornhill, d 31 Mar 1950 (bur 3 Apr 1950), age 76, m(1) 13 Mar 1897, Holy Innocents’, Thornhill Lees, Emma Jessop, b ca 1874, d 1924; m(2) 1927, Doris Wood, d 19 Sep 1947 (bur 22 Sep 1947), age 47. Friend was a founder at a glass works in Thornhill. Note: Doris had a son, Vincent Stewart Wood, b 13 Sep 1926, d 1997, listed in BMD records as Cowgill.

Children: known are – Minnie, Herbert, Evaline, Elsie, Bryan

 

1  Minnie Cowgill b 23 Dec 1898 (bapt 28 Jan 1899, St Michael’s), Thornhill, m 20 Nov 1920, Holy Innocents', Thornhill Lees, Ernest Jackson, b ca 1898.

 

2  Herbert Cowgill b 1 Apr 1901 (bapt 3 May 1901, St Michael's), Thornhill, d 1972, m 27 Dec 1920, St Mary's, Mirfield, Emily Dyson, b 30 Jan 1897, d 1978.

    Children: known are - Annie, Edith

 

3  Evaline (also as Evalina) Cowgill b 8 May 1904 (bapt 4 Jun 1904, St Michael's), Thornhill, m 1941, Cyril Brooke.

 

4  Elsie Cowgill b 4 Nov 1910 (bapt 5 Dec 1910, St Michael's), Thornhill, d 1916.

 

5  Bryan Cowgill b 1937

 

8  Caroline Cowgill b 1875 (bapt 26 Dec 1875, St Michael’s), Thornhill, m 5 Jun 1897, Thornhill, Joshua Thornes, b ca 1874. Joshua was a coal hewer in Thornhill in 1901.

 

9  Wright Wood Cowgill b 1877, Thornhill, d 1943 (bur 22 Apr 1943), m 4 Jul 1908, Thornhill, Agnes Handley, b ca 1881, d 1949 (bur 30 Aug 1949). Wright was a coal miner in Thornhill. Note: the 1911 census also lists a “son” Willie Handley, age 7. A son of Wright’s?

Child: known is - Harry

 

1  Harry Cowgill b 9 Dec 1908, Thornhill, d 1975.

 

10 Harriet Cowgill b 27 Apr 1881 (bapt 16 Apr 1884, St Michael’s), Thornhill, m 1 Oct 1904, Thornhill, William Dobson, b ca 1881, a box maker. In 1901, Harriet was a glass bottle packer lodging with her parents.

 

11 Sarah Cowgill b 1883, Thornhill, m 10 Oct 1908, Thornhill William Hardcastle, b ca 1885, a miner. In 1901, Sarah was a mother's helper lodging with her parents.

 

7  Sarah Jane Cowgill b 1847, Whitley Lower, m 17 Jan 1895, St Mary and Michael's, Whitley Lower, George Heaton, a widower, b ca 1825, d before 1901. Sarah was a grocer in Briestfield in 1901. Nephew Uriah was lodging with her.

Child: known is - Lister

 

Lister Cowgill b 21 Aug 1871, Whitley Lower, d 31 Dec 1953, m 2 Feb 1895, Thornhill, Jane Ann Tinker, b 6 Mar 1871, d 1948. Lister was a colliery blacksmith in Briestfield.

Children: known are – Edith, Mary, Ethel, Ernest, Arthur, Maurice, Horace

 

Edith Cowgill b 19 Apr 1896, Thornhill, d 26 Dec 1972, m 5 Jul 1919, Thornhill, Arthur Mitchell, b ca 1892.

 

Mary Cowgill b 7 Sep 1897, Briestfield, d 2 Jun 1978, m 31 May 1919, Thornhill, John R. Gresswell, b ca 1896, a miner.

 

Ethel Cowgill b 14 Jul 1899, Briestfield, d 13 Apr 1962, m 26 Dec 1925, James Harker.

 

Ernest Cowgill b 13 Apr 1902 (bapt 17 May 1902, St Michael's), Thornhill, d 9 Aug 1954, m 23 Nov 1925, Vesta Howarth, b 8 Mar 1904, d 2005, age 100.

    Children: known are - Brian, Alan

 

Arthur Cowgill b 3 Jun 1904, Briestfield, d 1950 (bur 13 Jun 1950, age 46), m(1) 26 Nov 1926, Primitive Methodist Chapel, Thornhill Edge, Thornhill, Norah Twibey, b ca 1901, d 1940 (bur 4 May 1940), dau of Herbert Twibey; m(2) 1941, St Peter and St Paul, Ormskirk, Frances Annie Price, d 1944 (bur 12 Dec 1944, age 36, of 40 Castle Mount, Thornhill).

   Children: known are - Peter, Jean

 

Maurice Cowgill b 20 Mar 1907, d 9 Jan 1977, m Mar 1935, Mary Kathleen Bedford, b 1907, d 1955.

    Children: known are - Margaret, Judith

 

Horace Cowgill b 16 Apr 1910 (also as 28 Feb 1910, bapt 28 Jul 1910, St Michael's), Thornhill, d 1997, m 30 Nov 1940, Annie Hinchcliffe, b 11 Mar 1911, d 1973.

 

3  John Couldwell b 21 Feb 1772 (bapt 22 Mar 1772, St Peter's), Leeds, probably the John Coldwell who m 27 Dec 1790, St Michael & All Angel's, Thornhill, Sarah Froggitt, bur 10 Aug 1807 (as Cowgill). John was described as of Silkstone at marriage. Marriage witnesses included Benjamin Couldwell, likely the unidentified Benjamin Cowgill who also witnessed brother Joseph's marriage.

 

4  Mary Couldwell b 9 Aug 1774 (bapt 11 Dec 1774, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 4 Aug 1778, age 3 (small pox).

 

5  Sarah Couldwell b 9 Jan 1777 (bapt 28 Mar 1777, St Peter's), Leeds. No further information.

 

6  Rachel Couldwell b 29 Jan 1779 (bapt 25 Apr 1779, St Peter's), Leeds. No further information.

 

7  William Couldwell b 21 Mar 1782 (bapt 5 May 1782, St Peter's), Leeds. No further information.

 

8  Thomas Couldwell b 9 Jul 1784 (bapt 29 Sep 1784, St Peter's), Leeds. No further information.

 

2  child Coggill, bur 20 Mar 1744/5, St Peter's, Leeds.

 

3  James Coggill b 3 Jan 1746 (bapt 30 Jan 1745/6, as Coghill, St Peter's), Call Lane, Leeds, bur 5 May 1819, m(1) 27 Jan 1765, St Peter's, Sarah Flockton, b ca 1742, bur 2 Oct 1779 (as Coghill), age 37 (fever); m(2) 8 Feb 1780, St Peter's, Leeds, Alice Forecy, b ca 1749, bur 17 Mar 1819. James described at 2nd marriage as a cloth worker.

Children: known are - William, son, John, Halliwell, Mary, Dinah, James, George, Henry, Edward, Samuel, Henry Charles

 

1  William Coggill b 5 Nov 1765 (bapt 25 Dec 1765, St Peter's), Leeds, probably the William Cockell bur 14 Jan 1790, St Peter's, age 25, of fever.

 

2  son Coggill, bur 14 May 1767 (as Cogill, from "fitts").

 

3  John Coggill b 22 Oct 1768 (bapt 28 Jan 1769, St Peter's), Leeds, m 29 Jun 1789, Leeds, Mary Emmerson. John was described as a cloth worker at marriage. Note: John's birth entry is as William, crossed through, with John written over. Was he John William or William John? No death cert found to date for John or Mary. It is possible (need additional sources) that John remarried to Elizabeth _____, bur at St Peter's 29 Jan 1837, age 66, "widow of the late John Coggill of Ebenezer Street". If so, he may be the father of the Samuel Coggill b 10 Sep 1806, "son of John Coggell of Ebenezer Street".

Children: known are - William, John, Sarah

 

1  William Coggill b 7 Mar 1790 (bapt 3 May 1790, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 11 Apr 1793 (as Coghill), age 3y (measles).

 

2  John Coggill b 9 Apr 1792 (bapt 28 May 1792, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 25 Apr 1793, age 1y (measles).

 

3  Sarah Coggill b 29 Jul 1794 (bapt 24 Aug 1794, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 4 Mar 1795, age 8m (smallpox).

 

4  Halliwell Coggill b 24 Dec 1770 (bapt 26 Mar 1771, St Peter's), Leeds, probably the son of James bur 8 Dec 1773.

 

5  Mary Coggill b 24 Oct 1774 (bapt 14 Jan 1775, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 3 Feb 1777 (as Cockill), of smallpox.

 

6  Dinah Coggill b 18 Nov 1780 (bapt 1 Jan 1781, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 16 Jun 1782 (as Sarah), age 1 (chincough).

 

7  James Coggill b 25 Feb 1782 (bapt 1 Apr 1782, St Peter's), Leeds, d 1850s, m 29 May 1815, St Peter's (brother Samuel was a witness), Mary Ann Coggill, a widow (whose?), b ca 1794, bur 19 May 1839, age 45, St Mary's, Leeds. James was a laborer at marriage, later a cloth dresser in Leeds.

Children: known are - Hannah (1st), James, Charles (1st), Charles (2nd), Hannah (2nd)

 

1  Hannah Coggill (1st) bapt 10 Jul 1816, St Peter's, Leeds, bur 13 Apr 1818.

 

2  James Henry Coggill bapt 18 Oct 1818, St Peter's, Leeds, d 1895, m 5 Nov 1838, St Peter's, Margaret Brown, b ca 1817, d 1876. Marriage record states both were minors. James was an engine smith in Hunslet by 1861 (not located on the 1851 census); in the Leeds District Union Workhouse in 1891.

Children: known are - Squire (1st), Harriet, Squire (2nd), Alfred, Lewis, James (1st), James (2nd), Margaret

                      

1  Squire Coggill (1st) b 1839, bur 27 Sep 1840, St Mary's, Leeds.

 

2  Harriet Coggill b 2 Sep 1840, d Nov 1890, m 3 Aug 1861, St Peter's, Leeds, Jeremiah Buckley.

 

3  Squire Coggill (2nd) b 29 Jul 1842, d 1843.

 

4  Alfred Coggill b 15 Sep 1844, Hunslet, d 1879 (bur 25 Jul 1879, St Philip's), Sheffield, m 1874, Leeds, Rebecca Ironmonger, b 1848. Alfred was a mechanic in Hunslet in 1871. No further information on Rebecca.

Child: known is - Clara

 

1  Clara Ann Coggill b 1877 (bapt 26 Sep 1877, St Philip's), Sheffield, d 18 Apr 1880, Sheffield.

 

5  Lewis Coggill b 2 Oct 1846, Leeds, d 1847.

 

6  James Coggill (1st) b 23 May 1848, Leeds, bur 7 Sep 1848.

 

7  James Coggill (2nd) b 1852, probably the James who d in 1852.

 

8  Margaret Ann Coggill b 30 Jan 1854, Leeds, m 3 Dec 1883, St Mary the Virgin's, Hunslet, James Burrows, b ca 1845, a widower.

Child: known is - Sarah

 

1  Sarah Ann Bradley Coggill b and d 1875.

 

3  Charles Coggill (1st) b 3 Dec 1822 (bapt 15 Dec 1822, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 15 Dec 1822.

 

4  Charles Coggill (2nd) b 2 Oct 1824 (bapt 31 Oct 1824, St Peter's), Leeds, d 1873, Sculcoates, m 1858, St Peter's, Sarah Ann Harrold, a widow b ca 1825, d 1904. Charles was convicted of larceny by a Leeds court in 1840 and sentenced to 3 months imprisonment.

Children: known are - Walter, Squire, Sarah

 

1  Walter Coggill b 1858, Leeds, d 1909, m 1894 (as Coghill), Holy Trinity, Hull, Annie Louise Mendham, b ca 1876, d 1900. Walter shown as a general laborer in Hull in 1901.

Children: known are - John, Walter, Louis

 

1  John Henry Coghill b 1894, d 1941, m 1917, Catherine Huby.

                                   Children: known are - Catherine, Lois, Vera, Walter, John, June, Margaret, Maureen

 

2  Walter Charles Coghill b 1896, d 1899.

 

3  Lois Coghill b 1899, m 1926, St Andrew's, Drypool, Thomas G. B. Overy.

 

2  Squire Coggill b 1861, Leeds, d 1927, m 1892 (as Coghill), St Mark's, Sculcoates, Catherine Walker W Greig. Squire shown as a salesman (Collector) in 1901, lodging with his mother.

 

3  Sarah Ann Coggill b 1863, Hull, d 1909, m 1883, Holy Trinity, Hull, Richard Kennington, b ca 1863. Richard was a boilermaker in Hull in 1891.

 

5  Hannah Coggill (2nd) b ca 1827, bur 29 Aug 1829, age 2.

 

8  George William Coggill b 9 Dec 1783 (bapt 25 Jan 1784, St Peter's), Leeds. No further information (is this the George Coggill, age 30, who m 24 Oct 1814, St Peter and St Wilfrid's, Ripon, Mary Harrison, and who was bur there 24 Nov 1814?).

 

9  Henry Coggill bur 27 Feb 1786 (fitts). No birth record or age at burial.

 

10 Edward Coggill b 4 Jan 1786 (bapt 17 Apr 1786, St Peter's), Leeds, m Mary ____. This must be the Edward Coggill twice convicted (in 1817 and 1827) of larceny by a Leeds court, serving sentences of 3 and 4 months imprisonment. No further information.

Child: known is - Frederick

 

1  Frederick Coggill, bur 5 Mar 1832, St Peter's, Leeds.

 

11 Samuel Coggill b 29 Mar 1788 (bapt 11 May 1788, St Peter's), Leeds, d 1852, m(1) 29 Jan 1811, Leeds, Mary Cockshott; m(2) 13 Jul 1817, Rothwell, Elizabeth Marshall, b ca 1782, bur 11 Feb 1844, age 62. Samuel is shown as a cloth dresser in Leeds in 1841.

Children: known are - George, Elizabeth

 

1  George William Coggill b 20 Nov 1817 (bapt 2 Mar 1818, St Peter's), Leeds, d 1877, m 26 May 1846, Leeds, Eliza A. Musgrave, b ca 1826, d 1892. George was a cloth dresser in Leeds from 1841.

Children: known are - Henry, James, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary, George, Albert, Fred

 

1  Henry Coggill (birth cert also as Musgrave) b 1844, Leeds, d 1854.

 

2  James Coggill b 1848, Leeds, d 1879, m 24 Dec 1877, St Thomas', Leeds, Margaret Timlin (nee Hodgeson?), a widow, b ca 1852, d 1897. James was a mechanic turner in Leeds. The 1891 census shows a son Thomas, age 2. No further information.

Children: known are - Sarah, John

 

1  Sarah Coggill (Timlin on birth cert; marriage cert has James as father) b 1876, Leeds, m 2 Dec 1899, St Stephen's, Leeds, Herbert Clarkson, b ca 1874. In 1901 Herbert was a brickyard worker in Leeds.  Child: thought to include - Emily

 

Emily Coggill b 3 Apr 1898 (need birth cert to verify), d 1899.

 

2  John Coggill b 1879, Leeds, d 1935. No information after 1891 (but this must be the John Coggill shown in 1911 in a workhouse in Leeds).

 

3  Elizabeth Ann Coggill b 1851, Leeds, m 31 Jul 1870, St George's, Leeds, William Blackburn, b ca 1850. William was a striker in Leeds in 1871.

 

4  Sarah Ann Coggill b 1853, Leeds, m 4 Nov 1901, Hunslet, George Bermett, a widower.

 

5  Mary Jane "Polly" Coggill b 1856, Leeds, m 1882, Leeds, John W. Milburn, b ca 1849. John was a machine fitter in Leeds. Two of her children (John William and Polly) are shown as Milburns on the 1891 census.

   Children: known are (others after marriage?) - John, Polly

 

John William Coggill b 1878, d 1940, m 4 Jan 1911, St Stephen and St Agnes', Burmantofts, Polly Brearley, b ca 1883, d 1945, dau of George Brearley.

    Children: known are - Hilda, John, Doris

 

Hilda M. Coggill b 1911, Leeds, m 1938, David P. Fielding.

 

John William M. Coggill b 29 Apr 1913, Leeds, d 1986, m 1941, Lillian M. Sowden.

    Children: known are - John, Janet

 

Doris  M. Coggill b 1920, Leeds, 

 

Polly Coggill b 1880,

 

6  George Coggill b 1859, Leeds, d 1911, m 26 Dec 1887, St Thomas', Leeds, Mary Gregson, d before 1901 (is she the Mary Coggill who d 1899?). George not located in 1891; he is shown as a clerk (widower) in Leeds in 1901.

 

7  Albert Edward Coggill b 1863, Leeds, d 12 Aug 1915, m 21 Mar 1885, St Thomas', Leeds, Sarah Jane Speight, b ca 1863, d 1947. Albert was a machine grinder in Leeds.

Children: known are - Harry, Albert, George, Clara, Lily, Annie

 

1  Harry Coggill b 29 Nov 1885, Leeds, d 1952.

 

2  Albert Coggill b 1 Jan 1888, Leeds, m 16 Dec 1911, St Stephen and St Agnes', Burmantofts, Mary Elizabeth Meadley, b ca 1889, d 1950.

    Children: known are - Annie, Clara, Ivy

 

3  George Coggill b 9 Nov 1891, Leeds, d 1962, m 26 Dec 1914, St John The Baptist's, Newton, Annie Turner, b ca 1892.

    Child: known is - Ronald

 

1  Ronald Coggill b 1925, d 1926.

 

4  Clara Coggill b 19 Jun 1895, Leeds, d 1902.

 

5  Lily Coggill b 1898, Leeds

 

6  Annie Coggill b 1901, Leeds, m 25 Mar 1920, St John's, Newton, William Murray, b ca 1899, a solicitor.

 

8  Fred Coggill b 1866, Leeds, d 23 Nov 1931, m 3 Aug 1885, St Peter's, Leeds, Mary Ann Wilkinson, b ca 1865, d 1942. Fred was a machine fitter in Leeds. Note: the 1911 census indicates Mary Ann had eight children, five living.

Children: known are - Elizabeth, Mary, Frederick, Caroline, Elsie, May, John

 

1  Elizabeth Ann Coggill b 23 Apr 1886, Leeds, d 1886.

 

2  Mary Elizabeth Coggill b 1887, Leeds, d 1950.

 

3  Frederick Coggill b 1891, Leeds, d 1939, m 26 Dec 1914, St Peter's, Leeds, Ellen Brown, b 22 Jan 1894, d 1969.

    Children: known are - Fred, George, John, Douglas, Dorothy, Leslie, Ramon, Mary

 

1  Fred Coggill b 1915, Leeds, d 1990, m 1945, as her 2nd husband, Maisie Brown/Dawson, b 13 Jun 1919, d 1982.

 

2  George V. Coggill b 1916, Leeds, d 1916.

 

3  John Coggill b 7 Jan 1920, Leeds, d 1990, m 1949, Barbara M. Longbottom.

    Children: known are - Jacqueline, Barbara, David

 

4  Douglas Coggill b 27 Feb 1921, Leeds, d 1985, m 1947, Rosemary Daley, b 17 Mar 1926, d 1985.

    Children: known are - Douglas, Terence, Patrick, Deborah

 

5  Dorothy Coggill b 1922, Leeds, d 1922.

 

6  Leslie Coggill b 24 Dec 1922, Leeds, d 1986, m 1947, Iris Wineley.

    Child: known is - Frederick

 

7  Ramon Coggill b 1929, Leeds, d 1999.

 

8  Mary Coggill b 1931, Leeds, m 1957, Harold Hale.

 

4  Caroline Coggill b 7 Sep 1893, Leeds, m 27 Dec 1915, St Mary's, Leeds, Albert Morris, b ca 1893, a moulder.

 

5  Elsie Coggill b 19 Oct 1895, Leeds, d 1954, m 1916, Tom H. Rhodes.

 

6  May Coggill b 21 Jul 1900, Leeds, d 1901.

 

7  John William Coggill b 8 Nov 1905, Leeds, d 1957, m 1928, Emma Williamson, b 15 Jan 1902, d 1979.

    Child: known is - Kenneth

 

2  Elizabeth Coggill b 1820, bur 27 Aug 1820, St Peter's, Leeds.

 

12 Henry Charles Coggill b 8 Apr 1791 (bapt 22 May 1791, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 25 Feb 1793.

 

4  Mary Coggill b 3 Feb 1748 (bapt 24 Feb 1748, St Peter's, as Coghill), Call Lane, Leeds, bur 8 Feb 1752, as Coghill, St Peter's.

 

5  John Cowgill b 28 Jul 1750 (bapt 24 Aug 1750, St Peter's, as Coghill), Leeds, bur 7 Jan 1816 (as Cowgill), aged 65, St Peter's, m 8 Aug 1775, St Peter's, Elisabeth Hartley, bur 2 Jun 1809 (as Cowgill), age 56 (of decline). John was described as a cooper at marriage.

Children: known are - Elizabeth, William, Mary, Joseph, Susanna, John

 

1  Elizabeth Coggill b 21 Jan 1777 (bapt 1 Mar 1777, St Peter's), Leeds. No further information.

 

2  William Cowgill b 2 Jan 1779 (bapt 3 Feb 1779, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 22 Apr 1860, age 83, Leeds, m 5 Dec 1803, St John the Baptist's, Adel, Rebecca Shut, bur 12 Nov 1839, age 54, Headingley, dau of Thomas and Mary (Calvert) Shutt. William was described in parish records as a "farming man" of Headingley; he was an agricultural laborer on census records. On the 1851 census he was listed as "farm laborer relieved by parish".

Children: known are – Sarah, Mary, Rebecca, Joseph, Samuel, Martha, John, Elizabeth, William, Thomas

 

1  Sarah Cowgill bapt 16 Mar 1806, Headingley (Leeds), d 1882, Leeds.

Child: known is - Sarah

 

Sarah Cowgill b 1842, Headingley, m 26 Dec 1868, St James, Woodside, George Flint, b ca 1842. In 1871 George was an agricultural laborer in Headingley.

 

2  Mary Ann Cowgill bapt 12 Apr 1807 (as dau of William Coghill of Headingley), St John the Baptist's, Adel, m 28 Nov 1831, St Peter's, Leeds, Henry Boynton, b ca 1807, a clothier of Honley.

 

3  Rebecca Cowgill bapt 23 Apr 1809, Headingley (Leeds), m 9 Apr 1848, St Peter’s, Leeds, Robert Walker, a widower, b ca 1805. In 1851 Robert was a railway laborer in Leeds. Niece Sarah Cowgill (dau of sister Sarah), age 8, and nephew William Cowgill (dau of sister Elizabeth), age 4, were lodgers in 1851.

 

4  Joseph Cowgill bapt 30 Jun 1811, Headingley (Leeds), bur 11 Mar 1855, age 43, Leeds. On the 1851 census Joseph is listed as a “linen bleacher relieved by parish”.

 

5  Samuel Cowgill b 21 Oct 1813 (bapt 12 Dec 1813, St Peter’s), Leeds, d 1861, Kirkstall (Leeds), bur 20 Feb 1861, age 45, St James’, Horsforth, m 14 Dec 1840 (as Coggill), Leeds, Mary Ann Duse, b ca 1821, bur 6 Apr 1886, St James', Horsforth. Samuel lived next to his father in Headingley in 1841/1851 as an agricultural laborer. Mary Ann and children (except William) were lodgers with her father in Horsforth in 1861.

Children: known are – William, Martha, Rebecca, Joseph, Hannah, Elizabeth, Emma, Samuel

 

1  William Cowgill bapt 14 Oct 1841, Kirkstall, d 2 May 1922, m 1864, Kirkstall, Hannah “Ann” Elizabeth Page, b 31 Jan 1842, bur 28 Mar 1921. William was a bleacher in Leeds in 1861; by 1871 he was a grocer in Horsforth, then a leather stock keeper in Guiseley. Both bur St Oswald's.

Children: known are – Edwin, William, Eva, Florence, Hilda

 

1  Edwin Cowgill b 9 Sep 1865, Kirkstall, d 6 Oct 1941, m 1892, Guiseley, Ellen Waterworth, b ca 1864, d 31 Aug 1933. Edwin was a school master in Shipley (Bradford) in 1911.

Children: known are – Amy, Edith, William

 

1  Amy Cowgill b 12 Aug 1893, Shipley (Bradford), d 1972, m 1918, Alfred A. Steele.

 

2  Edith Cowgill b 25 Jan 1895, Shipley (Bradford),

 

3  William Arthur Foster Cowgill b 28 Aug 1899, Shipley (Bradford), d 1979, m 22 Apr 1935, Girlington Methodist Church, Doris Mary Gledhill, b 27 Feb 1904, d 1997, dau of Arthur Gledhill.

 

2  William Arthur Cowgill b 15 Aug 1870, Horsforth, d 31 Jan 1884, bur St Oswald's.

 

3  Eva Ann Cowgill b 1877, Guiseley, d 1945. Single.

  

4  Florence Elizabeth Maud Cowgill b 1880, Guiseley, m 2 May 1911, St Oswald’s, Guiseley, Herbert Preston, b ca 1869, a weaver.

 

5  Hilda May Cowgill b 1884, Guiseley, d 1965. Single.

 

Roy Nicholson Cowgill b 1902, Guiseley, d 1955. Roy is listed as a grandson of William’s on the 1911 census. Whose child?

 

2  Martha Hannah Cowgill b 1843, Kirkstall, m 28 Jan 1861, St Michael's, Headingley, George Knowles, b ca 1840. In 1861, George was a joiner lodging with Martha’s grandfather.

 

3  Rebecca Cowgill b 1845, Kirkstall, d 1909. Single, lodging with brother Samuel in 1891, with a son of sister Hannah’s in 1901.

Child: presumed child (need birth cert to verify) is - Rebecca

 

Rebecca Cowgill b 1889, Woodside, d 1906. Rebecca is shown in an infirmary in Leeds in 1891; by 1901 she was in Horsforth with her presumed mother.

 

4  Joseph Cowgill b 1848, Kirkstall, d 1915, m 21 Nov 1870, St Oswald’s, Guiseley, Margaret Wood, b ca 1854, d 1931. In 1871 Joseph was a bleacher in Horsforth; a brickmaker in Horsforth by 1881; an under gardener by 1901, and a yarn bleacher by 1911.

Children: known are – Martha, Edith, Florence, Alfred, Ernest, Reuben

 

1  Martha Ann Cowgill b 1871, Horsforth, m 1891, Wharfedale Civil District, Jesse Batten, b ca 1861. In 1901 Jesse was a sandstone quarryman in Horsforth.

 

2  Edith Cowgill b 1875/6, Horsforth, m 1900, Wharfedale Civil District, James Lee, b ca 1877. In 1901 James was a clay miner in Horsforth.

 

3  Florence Cowgill b 1880, Horsforth, m 1906, Woodside Methodist Church, William D. Jackson.

 

4  Alfred Cowgill b 28 Jun 1882, Horsforth, d 1971, m 1908, Eliza Wilkinson, b 5 Apr 1884, d 1976. Alfred was an assistant stationary engineman in Horsforth in 1911. Note: on the 1891 census Alfred is mistakenly shown as a son of his uncle, Samuel Cowgill.

Children: known are - Lily, James

 

1  Lily Cowgill b 1909, Horsforth, m 1 Oct 1932, Rawdon Methodist Chapel, Leeds Road, Rawdon, Reginald Barrett, b ca 1904, son of John Barrett.

 

2  James Cowgill b 3 May 1911, d 1997, m 1934, Methodist Church, Horsforth, Ethel M. Wright.

    Children: known are - Keith, Alan


5  Ernest (or Earnest) Cowgill b 1889, Horsforth, d 1950, m 1913, Woodside Methodist Church, Jane Ann Hey, b ca 1886, d 25 Oct 1966.

Children: known are – Gladys, Stanley, Joyce

 

1  Gladys Cowgill b 1915, m 1933, Frank Lawson.

 

2  Stanley Cowgill b ca 1922, d 26 Jun 1943, age 21, a casualty of World War II. Stanley was a sergeant (flight engineer) in the 106th Sqdn, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Bur Steenderen General Cem., plot grave 8.

 

3  Joyce Cowgill b 1924, m 1946, John V. Whitley.

 

6  Reuben Cowgill b 1894, Horsforth, bur 30 Apr 1924, age 30, m 1917, Esther Garforth, b 1886, d 1964.

Child: known is - Dennis

 

1  Dennis Cowgill b 9 Jun 1919, d 1997, m 1945, Emily Craven, b 9 Apr 1922, d 2005.

    Children: known are - Margaret, Susan

 

5  Hannah Cowgill b 1851, Kirkstall, m 12 Jul 1869, St Oswald’s, Guiseley, Elijah Stockhill, b ca 1847. In 1871, Hannah and family were lodgers with her mother in Horsforth.

 

6  Elizabeth Cowgill b 1852, Kirkstall, m 25 Nov 1871, St James, Woodside, Israel Stockhill, b ca 1851, son of Charles Stockhill. Israel was a quarryman in Horsforth.

 

7  Emma Cowgill b 1855, Kirkstall, m 31 Aug 1875, St Oswald’s, Joseph Longbottom, b ca 1853. Joseph was a joiner in Horsforth. (Note: Emma is mistakenly listed as “Henry” on the 1861 census).

 

8  Samuel Cowgill b 1859, Kirkstall, d 1891, m 6 Jun 1881, St Oswald’s, Harriet Gill, b ca 1858, bur 23 Apr 1890, age 32, St Jame’s, Horsforth. Samuel was a quarryman in Horsforth.

Child: known is - Mary

 

1  Mary Ann Cowgill b 1885, Horsforth, m 3 Oct 1908, St John the Baptist’s, New Wortley, Harry Brittain, b ca 1888, a mechanic. In 1901 Mary Ann was a tailoress lodging with an aunt and uncle surnamed Haley in Leeds.

 

6  Martha Cowgill bapt 3 Mar 1816, St Peter’s, Leeds, bur 1 May 1837, aged 21, St Michael and All Angels, Leeds.

 

7  John Cowgill b 29 Jan 1818 (bapt 29 Mar 1818, St Peter’s), Leeds, bur 11 Mar 1860, age 43y, St Margaret’s, Horsforth, m 30 Sep 1839, St Oswald’s, Guiseley, Sarah Nichols, b ca 1825, d 1903. John is shown as an agricultural laborer in Horsforth by 1841.

Children: known are – Joseph, James, Nicholas, David, Sarah, Nichols, William, John

 

1  Joseph Cowgill b 1840, Horsforth, bur 11 May 1841, age 8m, St Margaret’s, Horsforth.

 

2  James Cowgill b 20 Mar 1842, Horsforth, d 11 Oct 1911, m (mge cert?), Ann Cockroft, b ca 1848, d 1906. James was a quarryman in Horsforth. Note: the 1911 census indicates there were three other children who d early.

Children: known are – John, Sarah, Jane, Annie, James, William, David, Emma, Henry, Selina (Sebrina?)

 

1  John Cowgill b 1869, Horsforth, d 23 Mar 1942, m 17 Jun 1893, St Oswald's, Guiseley, Annie Eliza Holroyd, b ca 1867, d 1945.

Child: known is - Kate

 

1  Kate Isabel Cowgill b 17 Jan 1894, Horsforth, m 22 Nov 1920, St Margaret’s, Horsforth, William Smith Naylor, b ca 1891.

 

2  Sarah Cowgill b 1871, Horsforth, m(1) 1891, John Longfellow; m(2) 1900, John Joyce, b ca 1858, Ireland.

Children: known are (others after marriages) - Walter, Mary

 

Walter Cowgill b 4 Dec 1889, Horsforth, d 1947, m 12 Jun 1909, St James', Woodside (Kildwick), Ethel Gambles, b 1891. Walter was a dyer’s laborer in Horsforth in 1911. Ethel remarried 1957, Leslie C. Goodman.

Child: known is - Annie

 

Annie Cowgill b 1910, Horsforth

 

Mary Eliza Cowgill b 1891, Horsforth, m 24 Dec 1917, St Stephen's, Kirkstall, Whitham Ilingworth, b ca 1888. Marriage cert lists "Father" as Sarah Joyce.

 

3  Jane Cowgill b 1873, Horsforth, m 1914, apparently as his 2nd wife, Joseph T. Hall.

Children: known are – Tom, Leonard

 

Tom Cowgill b 27 May 1896, Horsforth, d 1981, m(1) 18 Dec 1920, St Peter's, Leeds, Lois Edith Farrar, b ca 1896, d 14 Jan 1984 (Lois bur Point Clare Cem., Gosford, NSW; div?; m(2) 1926 (as Joseph T. Cowgill), London, Lilian Mary McConachie, b ca 1906, d 17 Jun 1931, age 24 (Lilian bur Plumstead Cem., Greenwich); m(3) 1939 (as Thomas Cowgill), Woolwich, Kent, Ivy May Cheeseman, b 23 Apr 1907, d 1975. Tom is listed as a grandson of James and Ann; his service record lists his mother’s name as Jane Cowgill. Tom was a veteran of World War I, serving as a driver in the 525th Co, 62nd Divisional Train; discharged May 1916, age 20y.

Children: known are - Ralph, Doris, Dorothy, Josephine, Doreen, Joan, David, Stanley

 

Ralph F. Cowgill b 1921, Bramley (Leeds), m 1947, Patricia E. Tebbutt.

    Children: known are - Yvonne, Marie, Eileen

 

Leonard Cowgill b 17 Jun 1901, Horsforth (need a birth cert to verify; shown as a grandson of James in 1911), d 1970, m 1934, Annie Elizabeth Boulton, b 30 Apr 1905, d 1969.

    Child: known is - Douglas

 

Douglas Cowgill b 1934, d 1936.

 

4  Annie Cowgill b 1874, Horsforth, d 1907.

 

5  James Henry Cowgill b 1877, Horsforth, bur 14 Mar 1890, age 12y, St Margaret’s, Horsforth.

 

6  William Cowgill b 1879, Horsforth, bur 28 Feb 1883, age 3y, St Margaret’s, Horsforth.

 

7  David Cowgill b 1 Apr 1881, Horsforth, Stoney Lane, Horsforth, d 15 Apr 1954, Mineston Hospital, Aireborough, m 4 Aug 1906, St James, Woodside, Horsforth, Florence Hobson, b 2 Feb 1885, Arcade, Horsforth, d 20 Oct 1976, Killingbeck, Leeds, dau of James and Hannah Maria (Fawcett) Hobson. David was a stone quarry delver in Horsforth in 1911.

Children: known are - Florence Annie, Ivy Irene, Reginald, Stanley, Leslie, Ernest

 

1  Florence Annie Annie Cowgill b 1907, Horsforth, m 1945, Walter Hobson.

 

2  Ivy Irene Cowgill b 1909, Horsforth (said to have d in Australia), m 1932, Arthur Pearson.

 

3  Reginald Cowgill b 1914, Horsforth, d 1915.

 

4  Stanley Cowgill b 27 Apr 1916, Horsforth, d 1988, m(1) 1937, Elsie Bunting; div (Elsie remarried 1946, Cecil James Rogers); m(2) 1943, Baptist Tabernacle (Springfield Rd), Blackpool, Ida Wilkinson, b 30 Oct 1914, d 1976; m(3) 1976, Cambridgeshire, Mabel Denniss.

   Children: known are - David, Pauline, Helen

 

5  Leslie Cowgill b 25 Sep 1918, Horsforth, d 2004, m 1936, Gladys Crane, b 15 Nov 1916, d 2004.

    Children: known are - Irene, Leslie, Barry

 

6  Ernest Cowgill b 11 Mar 1921, Horsforth, d 1995, m 1945, Joyce Dowling, b 1922.

    Child: known is - Patricia

 

8  Emma Cowgill b 1883, Horsforth, m 30 Jul 1910, St Margaret's, Horsforth, Edgar Long, b ca 1883.

 

9  Henry “Harry” Cowgill b 1885, Horsforth, d 1955, m 5 Aug 1911, St Margaret’s, Horsforth, Florence Wood, b ca 1885, d 1959.

Children: known are – Nellie, Alice

 

1  Nellie Cowgill b 1912, m 1935, Hubert Fawcett.

 

2  Alice Cowgill b 1918, m 1944, George R. Marsden.

 

10 Selina (Sebrina?) Cowgill b 1889, Horsforth, bur 4 Dec 1891, age 2y, St Margaret’s, Horsforth.

 

3  Nicholas Cowgill b 1845, d 1845.

 

4  David Cowgill b 1847, Horsforth, d 1932. David was a dyer’s laborer in Horsforth. In 1911 he was described as “uncle” of Walter Cowgill.

 

5  Sarah Cowgill b 1850, Horsforth, bur 18 Jul 1852, age 1y 10m, St Margaret’s, Horsforth.

 

6  Nichols Cowgill b 1854, Horsforth, d 1914, Horsforth, m(1) 4 Jan 1886, St Peter’s, Leeds, as her 2nd husband, Margaret Nicholson (nee Cooper), b ca 1847, d 1901; m(2) 9 Nov 1912, St Michael's, Manchester, as her 2nd husband, Caroline (Whitehead) Mayes, b ca 1857, d 1941. Nichols was a dyer’s laborer living at home; in Colne by 1891; not located in 1901. Several of Margaret’s children from her 1st m are listed as Cowgills on the 1891 census.

Child: known is - Joseph

 

1  Joseph Thomas Cowgill b 1886, d 1929, m 1906, Edith Gledhill, b ca 1888, d 1958. Joseph was a boot and shoe maker in Leeds. Note: the 1911 census indicates Edith had another child who d early.

Children: known are – Edith, Sarah, Doris, James, Amelia, Elsie, Joseph, Agnes, Jack, Leonard, Betty

 

1  Edith Margaret Cowgill b 1907, Armley, m 1933, St Andrew's, Leeds, Thomas H. Longhorn.

 

2  Sarah Annie b 1909, Armley, m 1930, St Andrew's, Leeds, Albert E. Jacques.

 

3  Doris Elizabeth Cowgill b 1910, Leeds, d 1911.

 

4  James Henry Cowgill b 28 Jul 1912, d Feb 2004, m(1) 1932, St Andrew's, Leeds, Mabel Bennett, b ca 1914, d 1944; m(2) 1949, Marion Egdell Graham, b 10 Dec 1924, d 1989.

    Children: known are - Jack, David

 

5  Amelia Cowgill b 1914, Leeds, m 1941, Horace Thornhill.

 

6  Elsie Cowgill b 1918, Leeds, m 1945, Dennis W. Driver.

 

7  Joseph T. Cowgill b 1920, Leeds, d 1923.

 

8  Agnes Cowgill b 1922, Leeds, m 1946, Jack Nicholson.

 

9  Jack Cowgill b 13 Jun 1923, Leeds, d 2002, m 1948, Daisy Stones, b ca 1926.

    Children: known are - Leonard, James, Gary, Mark, Gene

 

10 Leonard Cowgill b 1925, Leeds

 

11 Betty Cowgill b 1926, Leeds, m 1945, St Stephen's, Kirkstall, James Welsh.

 

7  William Cowgill b ca 1858, Horsforth, d 1893. William was a tailor living at home in Horsforth.

 

8  John Cowgill b 1860, Horsforth, d 1909. John was a quarryman living at home in Horsforth.

 

8  Elizabeth Cowgill bapt 4 Jun 1820, Headingley (Leeds), bur 3 Oct 1886, age 67. Elizabeth was a twine packer in Headingley. Sister Sarah lodged with her.

Children: known are – William, Samuel

 

William Cowgill b 1846, Headingley, bur 5 Jul 1910, age 63, Rawdon, m 26 Dec 1868, St James, Woodside, Mary Ingham, b ca 1848, d 6 Nov 1914, dau of John Ingham. William was a linen bleacher lodging with his mother in 1871; in Rawdon by 1881.

 

Samuel Cowgill b 1849, Headingley, bur 12 Nov 1902, age 53, Rawdon, m 1871, Selby, Anne Harcourt, b ca 1851, bur 6 Apr 1926, age 75. Samuel was a linen bleacher lodging with his mother in 1871; in Rawdon by 1881.

Children: known are – Edward, William, Sarah, Samuel, Rebecca, Martha, Fred

 

Edward Cowgill b 1871, Brayton, d 1947 (bur 16 Jul 1947, St Peter’s, Rawdon), m 7 Apr 1901, St Peter’s, Rawdon, Annie Elizabeth Bell, b ca 1870, d 1944 (bur 23 May 1944, St Peter’s, Rawdon). Edward was a dyer’s laborer in Rawdon in 1911.

Children: known are - Ella, Edward, Percy, William

 

Ella Ann Cowgill b 13 Sep 1901, Rawdon, d 1970.

 

Edward Cowgill b ca 1903, bur 26 Jun 1905, age 2, of Bleach? Works?, Rawdon.

 

Percy Cowgill b Mar 1904, Rawdon, d 1975, m 1941, Francis Eileen Hawkshaw, b 22 Aug 1912, d 1979.

    Child: known is - Kenneth

 

William Cowgill b 1910, Rawdon, d 1930 (bur 13 Oct 1930, St Peter's, Rawdon, age 19, of 1 Mount Vernon, Rawdon).

 

William Cowgill b 1873, Headingley, d 1943 (bur 11 Nov 1943, St Peter's, Rawdon, age 70). William was a woolen warp dresser lodging with his mother in 1911.

 

Sarah Elizabeth Cowgill b 1874, Headingley, m 11 Apr 1898, St Peter’s, Rawdon, George Otley.

 

Samuel Cowgill b 1876, Rawdon, d 1966, m 1903, Halifax Civil Dist, Martha Ellen Teale, b ca 1876, d 1960. In 1901 Samuel was a dyer's laborer lodging with his parents, a dyer in Bradford in 1911.

Children: known are – Annie, Jack

 

Annie Cowgill b 24 Mar 1905, Rawdon,

 

Jack Cowgill b 3 Nov 1907, Bradford, d 1992, m 1939, Emma Wade, b 13 Aug 1916, d 2004.

 

Rebecca Cowgill b 1878, Rawdon. In 1901 and 1911 Rebecca was in Headingley lodging with her uncle, George Flint.

 

Martha Cowgill b 1880, Rawdon, bur 31 May 1882, age 2.

 

Fred Cowgill b 17 Nov 1882, Rawdon, d 3 Apr 1954, Scarborough, m(1) 20 Aug 1910, Queen St Chapel, Yeadon, Ethel Maud Hudson, b ca 1876, Yeadon, d 1919, dau of Joshua Gibson Hudson; m(2) 1922, Margaret Edith Taylor, b ca 1888, d 6 Jan 1933. In 1901 Fred was a cabinet maker lodging with his parents.

    Children: known are - James, Isobel

 

1  James Whiteley Cowgill b 1 Jun 1911, d 1995, m 1933, Evelyn Beatrice Bryce, b 13 May 1912, d 1991. Note: need a birth cert to verify this placement.

    Child: known is - Brian

 

Isobel Cowgill b 1919, 

 

9  William Cowgill bapt 30 Mar 1823, Headingley (Leeds), bur 8 Feb 1846, age 23.

 

10 Thomas Cowgill bapt 3 Sep 1826, Headingley (Leeds), d 1864, m 20 Jun 1847, St Peter’s, Leeds, Charlotte Bett, b ca 1826, Scotland, d 1888, Leeds. Thomas was a yarn bleacher in Headingley by 1851. Charlotte was listed as a widow in 1871, as a hat box maker in Leeds in 1881.

Children: known are – John, William, Thomas, Hannah, Sarah, John Arthur, Elizabeth, Rebecca

 

1  John Cowgill b 1848 (bapt 29 Apr 1849), bur 24 Jun 1849, age 6m.

 

2  William Ronald Cowgill b 1850, Headingley, d May 1911 (bur 18 May), m 31 Mar 1873, St Peter's, Leeds, Ann Elizabeth Hutton, b ca 1852, d 1 Dec 1931. In 1871 William was shown as a railway porter living with his mother. Ann and children were lodging with her widowed mother, Sarah Birch, in Pudsey in 1881. By 1891 William and family were in Gorton (Manchester) where he was a foreman, engineer tool maker; shown as an innkeeper in Hale, Cheshire, in 1911.

Children: known are – Ada, Ernest

 

1  Ada Florence Cowgill b 1873, Leeds, d 25 Mar 1926. Ada, as “Ida”, was a school mistress in Oakmere, Cheshire in 1901, in Hale in 1911.

 

2  Ernest Henry Cowgill b 1876, Leeds, d 2 Jan 1946, m 1924, Derbyshire, Gertrude Amy Brown, b 9 Mar 1894, d 1971. Ernest was a machine inspector in Stretford in 1911.

    Children: known are - Eileen, Ronald

 

1  Eileen Cowgill b 1925, m 18 (26?) Sep 1949, Geoffrey Peter Torrance.

 

2  Ronald Cowgill b 1930, d 1968, m 1954, Edith M. Ling.

    Children: known are - Lynne, Lesley

 

3  Thomas Cowgill b 1852, Leeds, d 1911, m 23 Mar 1891, St Clement's, Sheepscar, Mary Ann Leeks, b ca 1865, dau of Robert Watkins. Thomas was an iron moulder in Leeds, not located in 1871/1881. He claimed Scotland as place of birth, and his age varies over the censuses. Several of Mary Ann’s children are listed as Cowgill children on the 1891 census (adopted?). The marriage cert lists her as “spinster”.

Children: known are – Robert, Harold, Violet (1st), Violet (2nd), Blanche, Irene

 

1  Robert Cowgill b 18 Jun 1892, Leeds, d 1969. Probably the Robert Cowgill who m(1) 1920, Stockport, Blanche Hern, b 8 Jul 1896, d 1974; div (Blanche remarried, 1930, William George Mumby); m(2) 1943, Margaret Stokoe. An unveried source claims Robert received a World War I medal "for bravery in the field".

    Child: known is - Robert

 

1  Robert William Cowgill b 1920, d 1964, m 1951, Stockport, Marion Allman, b Jun 1918.

 

2  Harold Cowgill b 21 Dec 1894, Leeds, d 8 Nov 1958, m 28 Aug 1920, Ilkley, Edith Woodrup, b 26 Apr 1894, d 1988. Harold was a veteran of World War I, medically discharged in 1914. He was described as a postman at marriage.

    Children: known are - Joan, Malcolm

 

1  Joan M. Cowgill b 1929, Leeds, 

 

2  Malcolm T. Cowgill b 1929, Leeds, 

 

3  Violet Ellen Cowgill (1st) b 1897, Leeds, d 1900, bur Beckett Street Cem.

 

4  Violet Ellen Cowgill (2nd) b 13 May 1900, Leeds, m 24 Jul 1920, St Michael’s, Buslingthorpe, Maurice Jillings, b ca 1899.

 

5  Blanche Cowgill b 17 Sep 1902, Leeds, d 1903, bur Beckett Street Cem.

 

6  Irene Cowgill b 16 Aug 1906, d 1906/7.

 

4  Hannah Cowgill b 16 Aug 1855, bur 16 Nov 1856, age 15m, St Matthew's, Holbeck.

 

5  Sarah Ann Cowgill b 1856, Leeds, d 1870.

 

6  John Arthur Cowgill b 2 Sep 1859, Leeds. John had trouble with the law: he was convicted of larcency on 15 Apr 1878 by a court at Leeds; convicted  again 22 Dec 1879 of 5 counts of simple larceny, and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment; convicted 23 Oct 1882 of breaking and entering a shop and “stealing therein”,  previous conviction proved, sentenced 15 months; convicted 24 Oct 1882 of breaking and entering a shop and stealing therein, sentenced 7 years. No other information.

 

7  Elizabeth Cowgill b 2 Apr 1862, Leeds, m 12 Nov 1884, St Peter's, Leeds, Walter Willey, b ca 1862, a saw maker.

 

8  Rebecca Cowgill b 8 Jul 1864, Leeds, m 3 Dec 1887, St Peter’s, Leeds, Henry Atkinson, b ca 1865. Henry was a boot and shoe riveter in Leeds in 1891.

 

3  Mary Cowgill, dau of John and Elisabeth (Hartley) Cowgill, b 1 Jan 1782 (bapt 27 Jan 1782, St Peter's), Leeds, m 29 Sep 1806, William Leedel, a cabinetmaker (Joseph Cowgill and Deborah Mitchell were witnesses).

 

4  Joseph Cowgill b 1 Jan 1784 (bapt 1 Feb 1784, St Peter’s), Leeds, d 25 Nov 1817 (bur, as John Cowgill, 26 Nov 1817, age 32, Sydney, NSW), m 24 May 1807, St Peter’s, Leeds, Deborah Mitchell, b ca 1778, bur 15 Jul 1833 (age 23 in the register which must be wrong), "widow of Joseph Coggill". In an Index to The Archbishop of York's Marriage Bonds & Allegations, Joseph, 23, Leeds, posted bond 24 May 1807 for marriage to Deborah, 29, Leeds. This must be the Joseph Cowgill, age 26, convicted (crime of larceny “for stealing great coats from different inns”) 30 Apr 1810 at Pontefract, York West Riding Quarter Sessions, for a term of 7 years, sentenced to Australia. He was one of 200 convicts transported in Jul 1810 to NSW aboard the Indian. A 12 Dec 1816 article in the Morning Chronicle (London) lists Joseph as an assistant clerk in the NSW government’s Secretary’s Office.

Child: known is - Amelia

 

1  Amelia Cowgill b 22 Jun 1807 (bapt 13 Sep 1807, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 1 Apr 1812, age 4&3/4 (fever).

 

5  Susanna Cowgill b 26 Aug 1786 (bapt 1 Oct 1786, St Peter’s), Leeds, m 17 Jan 1807, St Peter’s, Thomas Lofthouse.

 

6  John Edward Cowgill b 25 Jan 1789 (bapt 29 Mar 1789, St Peter’s), Leeds, bur 26 Mar 1854, age 69, Leeds. By 1841 John is shown as a farm laborer lodging with brother William.

  

6  Sarah Coggill b 10 Nov 1752 (bapt 9 Dec 1752, St Peter's, as Coghill), Leeds, m 28 Dec 1777, St Peter's (by license), William Powell, b ca 1747, a cloth dresser.

 

7  son Coggill, bur (as Coghill) 16 May 1754, St Peter's.

 

8  son Coggill, bur (as Coghill) 30 May 1754, St Peter's.

 

9  Samuel Coggill b 3 Jul 1755 (bapt 7 Aug 1755, St Peter's, as Coghill), Leeds, bur 1 Feb 1821, age 66, St Peter's, m 2 Sep 1776, St Peter's, Ann Jackson, probably the Ann Coggill bur 27 Jun 1841, age 78. Samuel was a soldier in the 33rd Regiment of Foot (as stated at his marriage and son James' baptism), enlisting in 1772 and discharged in 1812 after 39 years 11 months of service. Samuel's death cert states "married man of Ebenezer Street". Ann is shown on the 1841 census residing with the family of Benjamin and Sarah Wilby. Sarah Coggill, likely another child of Samuel and Ann, m Benjamin 7 Jul 1824 (John Coggill was a witness).

Children: known are - William, Jane, John, James, Charlotte, Sarah(?), Elizabeth

 

1  William Coggill b 14 Jun 1777 (bapt 12 Jul 1777, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 11 Feb 1844, age 66, St Peter's, m 4 Jul 1803, St Peter's, Leeds, Mary Ann Crosfield, b ca 1786, bur 19 Dec 1858, age 73, St Matthew's, Dewsbury. William is shown as a carpet weaver in Leeds in 1841; Mary Ann as a widow lodging with her son's family in 1851.

Children: known are - Ann (1st), Mary, Ann (2nd), Maria, William, Nancy, James, Hannah

 

1  Ann Coggill (1st) b 14 Dec 1804 (bapt 12 Mar 1805, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 11 Apr 1805, age 4m (fitts).

 

2  Mary Coggill bur 16 Oct 1807, age 3d (fitts), St Peter's), Leeds.

 

3  Ann Coggill (2nd) bur 31 Jul 1809 (as Coghill), age 3w (fitts), St Peter's, Leeds.

 

4  Maria Coggill b 13 May 1811 (bapt 18 Aug 1811, St Peter's), Leeds, m(1) 23 Aug 1831, St Peter's, Leeds, William Farrar; m(2) 26 Jul 1837, St Peter's, William Wood; m(3) 19 May 1845, St Peter's, John Buckley.

 

5  William Coggill bapt 8 Oct 1815, St Peter's, Sheffield, d 1892, m(1) 17 Aug 1845, St Matthew's, Holbeck, Mary Fitzpatrick, a widow, b ca 1811, Idle, d 1874; m(2) 27 Jul 1874, Dewsbury, Catherine Fitzpatrick (nee O'Toole), a widow, b ca 1833, Ireland, d 1903. William is shown as a cloth draper in Leeds in 1841, lodging with his parents; as a carpet wever in Dewsbury in 1851. Catherine was lodging with her daughter's family in 1901.

Children: known are (several of Mary's children are listed in records as Coggill) - James, Mary, Alfred, Emma

 

Edward Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b ca 1834, Leeds, d 1895 (death record as Coggill), m 1858 (as Edward Fitzpatrick), Hunslet, Sarah Lodge, b ca 1837, d 1903, dau of Richard Lodge. Edward (on the census as Coggill) was a carpet weaver in Dewsbury.

Children: known are - Ellen, Emma, Ellen, Alfred

 

Ellen Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b ca 1859, Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, Dewsbury, probably the Ellen Fitzpatrick who d 1864.

 

Emma Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b 1865 (as Fitzpatrick), Dewsbury, m 28 May 1892 (as Coggill), Dewsbury, Brook Jackson, b ca 1866. Brook was a house painter and decorator in Dewsbury in 1901.

 

Ellen Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b 1869 (as Fitzpatrick), Dewsbury, d 11 Sep 1930. Single. Left bequests to BL Brook Jackson and brother Alfred.

 

Alfred Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b 1872 (as Fitzpatrick), Dewsbury, d 10 Jan 1932, m 7 Jun 1899 (as Coggill), Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, Dewsbury, Harriet Dixon Bishop, b ca 1874, d 1968. Alfred shown as a bookkeeper at a woolen mill in 1901, a cashier in 1911. Note: the 1911 census indicates Harriet had another child who d early.

Child: known is - Edward

 

Edward Arthur Coggill b 9 Dec 1900, Dewsbury, d 1980, m 14 Apr 1931, Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, Dewsbury, Ethel Risdon, b 3 Jun 1903, d 1986, dau of John Albert Risdon.

 

Margaret Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b 1839 (as Fitzpatrick), Leeds, d 1856 (death record as Coggill).

 

Thomas Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b 1841 (as Fitzpatrick), Leeds, d 1891 (death record as Coggill), m(1) Ellen ____, b ca 1840, d 1887 (death record as Fitz); m(2) 6 Jun 1889 (as Coggill), Dewsbury, Mary Jane Hepworth (nee Terry), a widow, d 1899 (bur 2 Feb 1899, age 57). Thomas shown as the landlord of The Crown & Cushion in Dewsbury in 1881.

Children: known are - William, Mary, Annie, Thomas

 

William Henry Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b 1864 (as Fitz), Dewsbury, d before 1920, m(1) Mary ____, b ca 1869, Ireland; m(2) ca 1895, Hannah ____, b May 1870, Ireland. William (as Coggill) shown as a spice boiler in Dewsbury in 1891; as a coachman in Milton, MA, in 1900; and as a chauffeur in Boston in 1910. He claimed to have immigrated in 1895, Hannah in 1890.

Children: known are - William, Ellen, Joseph, Frances

 

William Lawrence Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b ca 1901, MA. William shown as a salesman in Boston in 1925; as a bond trader in 1930.

 

Ellen M. Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b 1905, MA, d 14 Dec 1908, Boston, MA.

 

Joseph Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b 1909, MA, d 1910s?

 

Frances R. Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b ca 1910, MA. Frances shown as a bond trader in Boston in 1930.

 

Mary Emma Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b 1868 (as Fitz), Dewsbury, m 28 Nov 1887, St Clement's, Longsight, Lancashire, Charles Edward Gibb.

 

Annie Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b 1870 (as Fitz), Dewsbury, d 1875.

 

Thomas Alfred Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b 1876 (as Fitz), Dewsbury, d 1892 (death record as Coggill).

 

William Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b 1844 (as Fitzpatrick), Leeds, d 1907 or 1910/11 (as Cogill), m Jane _____, b ca 1859, Scotland, d 1922. A carpet weaver lodging with his parents in 1871; a carpet weaver (as Coggill) in Burley by 1891; a forge laborer (as Cogill) in Headingley cum Burley in 1901. This is probably the William Coggill mentioned in the 18 Mar 1873 Bradford Observer, as convicted at Dewsbury, "cloth miller (previously convicted at Bradford), stealing, along with Mary Ann Leatham, wearing apparel, the property of …. sentenced three months

Children: known are - Mary, William, Samuel

 

Mary Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b ca 1885, Ayuskire, Scotland, m 1904, Benjamin Haigh, b ca 1884. Benjamin was a laborer in Holbeck in 1911.

Child: known is - Ellen

 

Ellen Haigh Cowgill (Fitzpatrick) b 21 Dec 1902, Leeds, d 1903.

 

William Henry Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b ca 1887, Ayuskire, Scotland, d 1934.

 

Samuel Knowles Coggill (Fitzpatrick) b 1890 (as Coghill), Leeds, d 1937, m 1916 (as Cogill), Marion Lambert, b 1898, d 1933.

    Children: known are - Samuel, William, Fred, Alice, Doreen, James

 

1  Samuel Cogill b 1916, d 1963, m 1937, Freda Barras, b 30 Jun 1918, d 1999.

    Children: known are - Joyce, Mary, Wendy

 

2  William Henry Cogill b 16 May 1918, d 1998, m(1) 1940, May Nichol; div; m(2) 1947, Daphne Winifred Howden, b 21 Aug 1923, d 2001. May remarried 1946, John Brindle.

    Children: known are - Andrea, Sylvia

 

3  Fred Cogill b 10 Jul 1919, d 1987, m 1940, Elsie Harrison, b 3 Mar 1919, d 2001.

    Children: known are - Rosemary, Patricia

 

4  Alice Cogill b 1921, m 1939, Wilfred Woodhead.

 

Doreen Cogill b 1924, m 1944, Clifford Harrop.

 

James Cogill b 21 Oct 1925, d 2000, m 1944, Leeds, Vera Moody, b 10 Jun 1922, d 1990.

    Children: known are - Marion, Michael, Maureen, Linda, Wilfred

 

5  James Coggill b 1846, Leeds, d 1846.

 

6  Mary Ann Coggill b 1847, Dewsbury, d 1848.

 

7  Alfred Coggill b 10 Jun 1849, Dewsbury, d 1925, m 1882, Dewsbury, Hannah Lodge, b ca 1852, d 1900. Alfred was a carpet weaver, later (1901) shown as a blanket filler, in Dewsbury.

Child: known is - William

 

1  William Coggill b 1883, Dewsbury, d 17 Jan 1941, m 18 Jul 1908, All Saints', Dewsbury, Emily Atkin, b ca 1882, d 1953.

 

8  Emma Coggill b 4 May 1852 (bapt 25 Jul 1852), Dewsbury, m 24 Dec 1869, Dewsbury, Samuel Haigh, b ca 1850. Samuel was a carpet weaver in Dewsbury in 1871.

 

6  Nancy Coggill b 16 May 1818 (bapt 25 Mar 1819, St Peter's), Leeds, bur (as Coghill) 28 Mar 1821.

 

7  James Coggill b 1 Mar 1821 (bapt 8 Apr 1821, High Chapel Townend Wesleyan, Dewsbury), bur (as Coghill) 6 Mar 1823.

 

8  Hannah Coggill b 21 Jan 1824 (bapt 26 Apr 1824, High Chapel Townend Wesleyan, Dewsbury), m 30 Nov 1845, Leeds, John Fitzpatrick.

 

2  Jane Coggill bapt 11 Dec 1778, Richmond, Surrey. No further information.

 

3  John Coggill b ca 1780, Halifax, Canada (as per his military file), bur 30 Jun 1839, age 59, St Mark's, Woodhouse, m 30 Nov 1800, Halifax, Elizabeth Sunderland, b ca 1781, Halifax, bur 18 Dec 1853, age 73. John was a soldier in the 33rd Regiment of Foot (as stated at his marriage and son William's baptism), enlisting in 1798 and discharged in 1816 at age 36. John was a cloth dresser after leaving the military. Elizabeth is shown as a charwoman, widow, in Leeds in 1841/51. Note: Did John m earlier (22 Jan 1796) at Portsmouth to Margaret Cavender and have a dau Margaret bur 4 Dec 1798 at Hull (need parish records)?

Children: known are - Harriet, Mary, Samuel, William (1st), William (2nd), Hiram, John, James, Henry

 

1  Harriet Coggill bapt 31 Oct 1802, Halifax, bur 4 Jul 1804, Halifax. Baptismal entry has dau of John Cowgill, a soldier of Halifax; bur may have John as a weaver.

 

2  Mary Ann Coggill, bur 4 Jul 1804, Halifax, dau of John Cowgill, a soldier of Halifax.

 

3  Samuel Coggill b 10 Sep 1806 (bapt 24 Sep 1806, St Peter's), Leeds, d 1877, m 12 Apr 1828, St Peter's, Mary Mason, b ca 1808, d 1889. Samuel was a weaver in Leeds. Note: Samuel may be instead the son of the John Coggill b 22 Oct 1768. See the note at his entry.

Children: known are - Harriet, George, Charles, Emma, William, Grace, Sarah

 

1  Harriet Coggill b 15 Jan 1829 (bapt 3 Aug 1829, St Peter's), Leeds, d Jun 1866, m 26 Jan 1851, St George's, Leeds, Samuel Beeley, a smith.

 

2  George Coggill b 11 Mar 1831 (bapt 3 Apr 1831, St Peter's), Leeds, d 3 Feb 1865, m 21 Jul 1856, St George's, Leeds, Eliza Rhodes, b ca 1830, Leeds, d 1910. George was an innkeeper at the Prince Albert Inn, Hunslet Lane, Leeds; Eliza was at Rothwell later. In 1841/51 George was shown as a "relative" lodging with William and Sarah Mason, innkeepers in Leeds.

Children: known are - William, Harry, Thomas, Anne, Walter

 

1  William Mason Coggill b 23 Sep 1856, Leeds, d 22 Mar 1925, m 7 Nov 1888, St Mary's, Hunslet, Mary Hannah Archdale, b ca 1859, d 1908. William was an architect and surveyor in Stourton.

Children: known are - Harold, Maud, Harvey, Constance

 

1  Harold Coggill b 1890, Stourton, d 1 Jul 1916. Harold was a casualty of World War I, serving as a Corp, West Yorkshire Regiment, bur Plot: I. C. 34, Serre Road Cem No. 1, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region, France.

 

2  Maud Ethel Coggill b 1893, Stourton

 

3  Harvey Mason Coggill b 5 Oct 1898, Stourton, d 1973, m 1939, Roberta Cunningham, b 22 Feb 1908, d 1974.

 

4  Constance Evelyn Coggill b 1901, Stourton, d 1997.

 

2  Harry Mason Coggill b 11 Feb 1858, Leeds, d 1941. Lodging with his mother in 1871; later with an aunt. His niece (Annie's dau) was lodging with him in 1901, when he was shown as a beer and wine seller in Leeds.

 

3  Thomas Mason Coggill b 1860, Hunslet (Leeds), d 1861.

 

4  Annie Mason Coggill b 22 Mar 1862, Leeds, m 15 Mar 1886, St Peter with St Cuthbert's, Popple Day, b ca 1863, a butcher. Lodging with her mother in 1881.

 

5  Walter Mason Coggill b 28 Nov 1863, Leeds, d 1901, m 4 Sep 1882, St Peter with St Cuthbert's, Mary Elizabeth Selby, b ca 1864, d 1901. Lodging with his mother in 1881; later a butcher in Stourton.

Children: known are - Harry, Blanche, May, Elsie, Nellie, Annie

 

1  Harry Coggill b 1882, Stourton, d 1964, m 2 Nov 1910, St Andrew's, Stourton, Annie Firman, b ca 1889, d 1965.

    Children: known are - Elsie, Norah, Walter, Marie

 

1  Elsie Coggill b 1912, m 1939, Harry L. Shires.

 

2  Norah Coggill b 1915, d 1916.

 

3  Walter Coggill b 1918, m 1945, Margaret Walworth, b 3 Apr 1920, d 1988.

    Children: known are - Brian, Christine, Grace

 

4  Marie Coggill b 1920, d 1922.

 

2  Blanche Elizabeth Coggill b 1884, Stourton, m(1) 29 Sep 1915, George William Morgan, b ca 1889, a warehouseman; m(2) 1 Jan 1920, St Aidan's, Thomas Edward Stepping, b ca 1883.

 

3  May Coggill b 11 May 1889, Stourton, d 1981.

 

4  Elsie Elizabeth Coggill b 21 Sep 1891, Stourton, m 20 Oct 1916, St John The Evangelist's, Leeds, George H Macklin, an operatic vocalist.

 

5  Nellie Coggill b 5 Nov 1893, Stourton, m 4 Nov 1914, St Thomas', Leylands, Selwyn Wade, b ca 1889.

 

6  Annie Victoria Coggill b 10 May 1897, Stourton, m 1928, Arthur Scuffell.

 

3  Charles Coggill b ca 1833, d 29 Mar 1894, m 6 Mar 1858, St Peter's, Leeds, Abigail Wilson, b ca 1833, d 7 Aug 1896. Charles was a boilermaker in Hunslet by 1861; later (by 1881) innkeeper at the White Lion Inn.

Children: known are - Eliza, Harriet, Samuel, Florence

 

1  Eliza Coggill b 1 Jul 1859, Hunslet, m 26 Sep 1911, St Jude's, Potteryfield, George R Porteus, a widower. Eliza and sister Florence were innkeepers at the White Lion in 1901.

 

2  Harriet Ann Coggill b 26 Jan 1861, Hunslet, d 1892

 

3  Samuel Coggill b 5 Dec 1862, Hunslet, d 1868.

 

4  Florence Emily Coggill b 13 Mar 1876, Hunslet, d 1930. Single.

 

4  Emma Elizabeth Coggill b ca 1835, Leeds, m 5 Dec 1891, St Jude's, Pottery Field, Hunslet, Mark Robertshaw, b ca 1847, a widower. Emma was a schoolteacher in Farnhill in 1871; in Leeds with her mother by 1881. Mark was a steam engine iron molder in Hunslet in 1901.

 

5  William Coggill b 12 Aug 1838 (bapt 10 Sep 1837, St Peter's), Leeds, d 1899, m 14 Apr 1875, St Mary's, Thirsk, Emma Metcalfe, b ca 1845, d 1921. William was a coach trimmer in Thirsk by 1861; later (by 1881) also there as an innkeeper at the Black Lion Inn. Emma and daughters were in Hunslet by 1901.

Children: known are - John, Ada, Beatrice

 

1  John Samuel Coggill b and d 1876, Thirsk.

 

2  Ada Mary Coggill b 1878, Thirsk, d 1923.

 

3  Beatrice Elizabeth Coggill b 1882, Thirsk, m 31 Mar 1915, St Luke's, Beeston Hill, Horace Kerbotson, b ca 1883, a clothier.

 

6  Grace Elizabeth Coggill b 1840, m 22 Feb 1862, Hunslet (St Jude's, Potteryfield), Harry Tutill, b ca 1841, a boilermaker.

 

7  Sarah Coggill b 1843, Leeds, m(1) 24 Jun 1865, Hunslet (St Jude's, Potteryfield), William Higgins, b ca 1842; m(2) 4 Jan 1876, St Jude's, John Scatchard, b ca 1836, widower, and an innkeeper. Sarah and her dau were lodging with her parents in 1871. She is shown as a school mistress.

 

4  William Coggill b 29 Mar 1809 (bapt 21 Jul 1809, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 19 Apr 1810, Halifax.

 

5  William Coggill b ca 1810, d 3 Jun 1837 (bur 7 Jun 1837, NC church), m 10 Feb 1830, St Peter's, Leeds, Jane Lighton, d 1847. William listed as a tailor and draper in Leeds in city directories; Jane shown as a victualler in 1841.

Children: known are - John, William, Charles, Susannah

 

1  John James Coggill b 2 Dec 1830 (bapt 5 Sep 1831, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 13 Mar 1833.

 

2  William Henry Coggill b 4 Nov 1832 (bapt 29 Jun 1833, St Peter's), Leeds, d 1868, m 3 Sep 1860, Alverstoke, Hampshire, Mary Ann Turrell, b ca 1835. William served in the Royal Marines at Portsmouth beginning in 1852, discharged in 1862 as an invalid. Mary Ann remarried 24 Feb 1870 to Job Chant, who apparently adopted her Coggill children.

Children: known are - William, Emma, Mary, Martha

 

1  William Henry Coggill Tyrrell b 1859 (bapt 9 Sep 1864, Holy Trinity, Gosport), Hampshire. Shown in 1871 as William Chant. No further information.

 

2  Emma Coggill b 1859 (bapt 30 Oct 1862, Holy Trinity, Gosport), Hampshire, d 1862.

 

3  Mary Ann Charlotte Coggill b 1865 (bapt 7 Jun 1865, Holy Trinity, Gosport), Hampshire, d 1866.

 

4  Martha Ellen Coggill b 1867 (bapt 23 Sep 1867, Holy Trinity, Gosport), Hampshire, m 1891, Charles Raper (or Robert Morgan). Shown as Martha Chant in 1871; as Coghill in 1881.

 

3  Charles Leighton Coggill b 26 Jan 1835 (bapt 11 Sep 1835, St Peter's), Leeds, d 1909, m (record?) Mary Calvert, b ca 1835, dau of Ann Calvert. Charles was a cabinet maker in Leeds in 1861; a joiner there in 1871. No further information.

Children: known are - John, Mary

 

1  John Henry Coggill b 10 Mar 1861, Leeds, m 1885, Leeds, Emily Stringer, b ca 1865, d 1933. John is listed as a butcher in Dublin in 1901. Emily shown as a widow, office cleaner in Leeds in 1911.

Children: known are - Ethel, Rose, Annie, Walter

 

1  Ethel Elizabeth Coggill b ca 1890, Dublin, m 1909, John H. Porteus.

 

2  Rose Coggill b ca 1895, Dublin, m 1920, Claude A. Snaith. Shown in 1911 as a shorthand typist and bookkeeper living with her mother.

 

3  Annie Florence Coggill b 7 Jan 1897, Dublin, d before 1911 (census listed Emily with two living children).

 

4  Walter Henry Coggill b 13 Apr 1899, Dublin, d 1906, Leeds.

 

2  Mary Coggill b 1871, Leeds (birth cert?),

 

4  Susannah Coggill b 15 Dec 1836 (bapt 17 Apr 1837, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 30 Apr 1837, NC church.

 

6  Hiram Isaiah Coggill bapt 21 Jul 1811, St Mary the Virgin's, Leigh, Lancashire, d 17 Nov 1858 (of typhus), m 11 Jun 1831, St Peter's, Leeds, Alice Mary Jowett, b ca 1811, d 25 Aug 1880. Hiram was a warehouseman in Leeds by 1841; a beerhouse keeper there in 1851; and in Bradford by the mid-1850s. He is shown as a Yorkshire native on the 1841 census, but claimed Newcastle, Lancs in 1851.

Children: known are - Joshua, Elizabeth, Samuel, John, Hiram, Alfred, Edmund

 

1  Joshua Jowett Coggill b 8 Nov 1831 (bapt 30 Sep 1833, St Mark's), Leeds (Woodhouse), d 1874, m 24 Aug 1862, Bradford, Emma Teesdale, b ca 1837. By 1871 Joshua was a stuff warehouseman in Bradford. Emma was lodging with her mother in 1881; she remarried in 1883.

 

2  Elizabeth Coggill b 23 Nov 1833 (bapt 28 Sep 1834, St Mark's), Leeds (Woodhouse), d 1836.

 

3  Samuel Coggill b 21 Apr 1837 (bapt 18 Aug 1839, St Mark's), Leeds (Woodhouse), d 1899, m 2 Nov 1862, St Wilfrid's, Bradford, Elizabeth Pickard, b ca 1847, d 1905, dau of John Pickard. By 1871, Samuel was a plumber and glazer in Bradford.

Children: known are - Mary, Elizabeth, Ann, Willie, John

 

1  Mary Hannah Coggill b 10 Jul 1864, Bradford, d 24 Mar 1919. Single.

 

2  Elizabeth Alice Coggill b 26 Mar 1867, Bradford, d 1899.

 

3  Ann Coggill b 1871, Bradford, m 1908, Lewis Denton/Thomas Ward.

 

4  Willie Jowett Coggill b 1878, Bradford, d 1880 (this entry needs to be verified by certs).

 

5  John Henry Coggill b 3 Apr 1884, Bradford, d 20 Feb 1926, m 24 Dec 1909, St Andrew's, Bradford, Florence Hodgson, b ca 1883, d 1964.

    Child: known is - Sidney

 

1  Sidney Coggill b 1913, d 1987, m 1944, Marian Peel, b 1916, d 1987.

    Children: known are - Christopher, Anthony

 

4  John Coggill b 12 Jun 1839 (bapt 18 Aug 1839, St Mark's), Leeds (Woodhouse), d 1839.

 

5  Hiram Isaiah Coggill b 1844, Leeds, d 1911, m 5 Feb 1868, Bradford, Sarah Jane Margeson, b ca 1846, d 1933. By 1871 Hiram was a maker up at a stuff warehouse in Bradford; later a coal merchant.

Children: known are - Arthur, Ada, James, Maude, Minnie, William, Jessie, Ernest, Harry

 

1  Arthur Goodall Coggill b 1869, Bradford, d 1870.

 

2  Ada Coggill b 1870, Bradford, m 11 Dec 1895, Holy Trinity, Bradford, Thomas Alfred Bell, b ca 1869. Thomas was a mechanical engineer in Bradford in 1901.

 

3  James Jowett  Coggill b 1872, Bradford, d 1875.

 

4  Maude Coggill b 7 Jun 1874, Bradford, d 1875.

 

5  Minnie Coggill b 1877, Bradford, d 1880.

 

6  William Margeson Coggill b 1879, Bradford, d 1897.

 

7  Jessie Coggill b 1881, Bradford, m 1903, Richard Mansley/Arthur Pick (Pice?).

 

8  Ernest Edmund Coggill b 1882, Bradford, d 1882.

 

9  Harry Coggill b 1884, Bradford, d 1884.

 

6  Alfred Henry Coggill b 1850, Leeds, d 1853.

 

7  Edmund Arthur Coggill b 1850, Leeds, d 1850 (need to verify with birth/death cert).

 

7  John Coggill b 1815 (bapt 27 Jul 1815 at Newark and 29 Oct 1815, St Peter's, Leeds), Newark upon Trent (per 1851 census), d 22 Aug 1878, m 26 Feb 1838, St Peter's, Leeds, Mary Dufton (or Dutton), b ca 1815, d 1884. John was a cloth dresser in Leeds in 1841; a farmer of 4 acres in Bromsgrove by 1851; and a gardener there by 1861.

Children: known are - Sarah, Ann, James, John

 

1  Sarah Coggill b 16 Nov 1838 (bapt 31 Mar 1839, St Mark's, Woodhouse), Leeds, m 1877, Aston, Warwickshire, ????. Sarah was in London Paddington by 1861 as a young ladies maid; a dressmaker in Bromsgrove in 1871.

 

2  Ann Elizabeth Coggill b 1841, Leeds, d 1842.

 

3  James Henry Coggill b 1845, Leeds, d 1861 (bur 18 Nov 1861).

 

4  John Coggill b 1854, Bromsgrove, d 1925, m 30 Oct 1872, Bromsgrove, Elizabeth Lander, b 1848, d 1932, dau of Thomas Lander. John was a gardener in Bromsgrove. He was in Saskatchewan in 1916. Both bur Regina and Jewish Cem., Regina.

Child: known is - Alice

 

1  Alice Winifred Coggill b 1884, Bromsgrove, d 1963. Bur near parents.

 

8  James Coggill b 1817 (bapt 29 Aug 1817, St Peter's), Leeds. No further information.

 

9  Henry Coggill b 1818 (bapt 1 Mar 1818, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 10 Nov 1896, age 78, m(1) 1843 (as Coghill), Leeds, Sarah Wood, b ca 1820, d 1891; m(2) 1893, Mary Crowther, bur 28 Apr 1905, age 79, St John the Evangelist's, Oulton. Henry was a cloth dresser lodging with his mother in 1841; later a baker.

Children: known are - Ann, Seth, Frances (1st), Aaron, Elizabeth, Frances (2nd), John, Ellen

 

1  Ann Elizabeth Coggill b 12 Mar 1844 (bapt 7 Jul 1844, St Mark's, Woodhouse?), Leeds, d 1851.

 

2  Seth Coggill b 13 Mar 1846 (bapt 31 May 1846, St Mark's, Woodhouse?), Leeds, d 1851.

 

3  Frances Edith Coggill (1st) b ca 1849, Leeds, d 1851.

 

4  Aaron Coggill b 1850, Leeds, d 22 Jun 1933, m 1893, Leeds, Ada Elizabeth Routh, b ca 1872, d 1939. Aaron was a bricklayer in Leeds. Not located in 1891.

Children: known are - Norman, Percy, Lilian, Gladys

 

1  Norman Harold Coggill b 16 Jul 1893 (as Cogill), Leeds, d 1981.

 

2  Percy Coggill b 14 Sep 1895, Leeds, d 1953, m 1922, Ethel Adams, b 17 Nov 1891, d 1978.

 

3  Lilian Edith Coggill b 8 Jul 1897, Leeds, m 26 Dec 1921, St Augustine's, Wrangthorne, James William Charles Howson, b ca 1895, a grocer.

 

4  Gladys Coggill b 11 Aug 1899, Leeds, d 1979.

 

5  Elizabeth Ann Coggill b 1852, Leeds, m 4 Dec 1880, St Mark's, Woodhouse, Thomas Longfellow, b ca 1854, a plumber.

 

6  Frances Edith Coggill (2nd) b 1854, Leeds, m 1878, Leeds, David Bennett.

 

7  John Henry Coggill b 8 Apr 1857, Leeds, d 22 Nov 1935, m 19 Sep 1887, St Matthew's, Little London, Mary Ann Stett, b ca 1859, d 1930. John was a baker in Leeds.

Children: known are - George, Leonard, Beatrice

 

1  George Henry Coggill b 1888, Leeds, d 1931, m 25 Aug 1915, Emmanuel Church, Leeds, Florence Ann Fowler, b ca 1889, d 1951.

    Children: known are - Florence, George, Rowland

 

1  Florence A. Coggill b 1916, m 1941, St Michael's, Headingley, Alan Eastwood.

 

2  George Kenneth Coggill b 4 Apr 1918, d 2000, m(1) 1947, St Mark's, Woodhouse, Magaretha Franke, b ca 1920, d 1961; m(2) 1967, Beryl J. Firth, b 30 Aug 1931, d 2002.

    Child: known is - Kenneth

 

3  Rowland Birch Coggill b 12 Jan 1920, d 1984, m(1) 1948, St Mark's, Woodhouse, Irene Chadwick, b 2 Feb 1927, d 1971; m(2) 1973, Margery Downes, b 26 Jan 1928, d 2005.

    Children: known are - David, Kathryn

 

2  Leonard Coggill b 1890, Leeds, d 1948, m 17 Jul 1920, St Mark's, Woodhouse, Mabel Irene Ridgway, b ca 1889, d 1951. Leonard described as an organ builder in his father's will.

    Children: known are - Joan, Frank

 

1  Joan Coggill b 1925, m 1949, John Walton.

 

2  Frank Coggill b 12 Oct 1926, d 2005, m 1954, Edith M. Walker. 

    Child: known is - Richard

 

3  Beatrice Coggill b 2 Jan 1896, Leeds,

 

8  Ellen Coggill b 1859, Leeds, m 1877, Leeds, Edward Wright.

 

9  Hiram Isaiah Coggill b 20 Nov 1861, Leeds, d 1936, m 1887, Leeds, Hannah (Annie) Lockwood, b ca 1867, d 1933. Hiram was a mason in Leeds. The 1911 census states Hannah had twelve children, six living.

Children: known are - Henry, Sarah, John, Sam, Bertie, Tom, Herbert, Nellie, Florence, George

 

1  Henry Coggill b 24 Aug 1887, Leeds, d 1940, m(1) 16 Nov 1918, St Mark's, Woodhouse, Maud Browning, b ca 1885, d 1923; m(2) 1929, Lily E. Catton, b ca 1884, d 1956. In 1911 Henry was a private, 1st West Yorkshire Regt, at Connaught Barracks, Rawalpindi, India.

    Children: known are - Harry, Florence

 

1  Harry Coggill b 4 Feb 1919, d 1985, m 1945, Ashford, Kent, Gladys May Wells, b 23 Dec 1913, d 1981.

 

2  Florence E. Coggill b 1921, probably the Florence Coggill who d 1923, age 1.

 

2  Sarah Coggill b 13 Jan 1889, Leeds, m 1921, Henry H. Lee.

 

3  John Coggill b 23 Aug 1890, Leeds, d 1955, m 22 Mar 1913, St Luke's Harrogate, Lily Burton, b 28 Dec 1892, d 1978.

    Child: known is - John

 

1  John Coggill b 1913, m 1936, Sussex, Dorothy K. Feldwicke.

 

4  Sam Coggill b 17 Aug 1892, Leeds, d 1893.

 

5  Bertie Coggill b 17 Mar 1894, Leeds, d 1908.

 

6  Tom Coggill b 26 Jun 1896, Leeds

 

7  Herbert Coggill b 1 Sep 1898, Leeds, d 1898.

 

8  Nellie Coggill b 12 Apr 1900, Leeds, m 1919, David W. Wilson.

 

9  Florence Coggill b 1903, Leeds, d 1940, m 1937, Arthur Dickinson.

 

10 George Coggill b 24 Feb 1906, Leeds, d 1907

 

10 Susannah Coggill b 14 Mar 1864, Leeds, m 26 Sep 1887, St Mark's, Woodhouse, George Clark, b ca 1863, a riveter.

 

11 Abraham Coggill b 1867, Leeds, d 7 Sep 1936, m 20 Oct 1890 (as Cogghill), St John The Baptist's, Newton, Leeds, Emma Bartle, b ca 1871, d 1955. Abraham was a printer compositor in Potternewton.

Children: known are - Wilfred, Edith

 

1  Wilfred Coggill b 10 Jan 1891, Leeds, d 1964, m 1923, Dorothy Ann Mountain, b 29 Sep 1898, d 1982. Later as Rev Wilfred Coggill.

    Children: known are - Dorothy, Margaret

 

2  Edith Coggill b 30 Dec 1892, Leeds, m 7 Jun 1920, St Aidan's, Newton, Edgar Page, b ca 1892.

 

4  James William Coggill b 20 Sep 1788 (bapt 27 Oct 1788, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 21 Jul 1789, age 9m (fever). Death cert has James William Carret Coggill.

 

5  Charlotte Coggill b 3 Nov 1793 (bapt 11 Dec 1793, St Peter's), Leeds, m 10 Apr 1814 (Samuel Coggill a witness), St Peter's, John Beaumont.

 

6  Sarah Coggill b ca 1794, Hanford Bridge (per 1851 census), m 7 Jul 1824 (John Coggill was a witness), St Peter's, Leeds, Benjamin Wilby.

 

7  Elizabeth Coggill b 13 Oct 1805 (bapt 25 Dec 1805, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 29 Sep 1841, age 36, of Quarry Hill.

 

10 Hannah Coggill b 6 Oct 1757 (bapt 23 Oct 1757, St Peter's, as Coghill), Leeds, possibly the Hannah Coggill who m 1 Dec 1780, St Michael le Belfry, York, John Suntor.

 

11 Ann Coggill b 3 Feb 1760 (bapt 29 Mar 1760, St Peter's), Leeds. No further information.

 

6  John Coggill b 27 Dec 1729 (bapt 30 Jan 1730, St Peter's, as Coghill), Call Lane, Leeds, bur 19 May 1730, St Peter's.

 

7  Marmaduke Coggill b 22 Apr 1732 (bapt 27 May 1732, as Coghill, St Peter's), bur 1 Mar 1818, age 85, St John the Baptist's, m 23 Jan 1758, St Peter's, Mercy Mann, bur 6 Jan 1788 (as Mary Coghill). Death cert has Marmaduke of Mill Hill. Note: one of the marriage witnesses was a Mary Shires. Marmaduke's cousin?

Children: known are - John, William (1st), Mary, Thomas, Jane, William (2nd), George

 

1  John Coggill b 28 Jan 1758 (bapt 7 Mar 1758, as Coghill, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 17 Jun 1759.

 

2  William Coggill (1st) b 2 Apr 1759 (bapt 9 May 1759, as Coggel, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 18 Feb 1760.

 

3  Mary Coggill b 30 Mar 1761 (bapt 11 May 1761, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 28 Dec 1761.

 

4  Thomas Coggill b 18 Jun 1762 (bapt 30 Jul 1762, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 2 Oct 1763.

 

5  Jane Coggill b 13 Nov 1763 (bapt 13 Jan 1764, as Coghill, St Peter's), Leeds, bur 22 Mar 1765.

 

6  William Coggill (2nd) b 4 Jan 1769 (bapt 7 Feb 1769, St Peter's), Leeds, probably the William Cockell bur 9 Nov 1792, age 23, of Cross Parish, of decline. He is probably the William Coggill who m 11 Aug 1791, Ann Bowser, bapt 20 May 1765, Barnsley, dau of Thomas Bowser. William is shown as a hair dresser(?) at marriage. Ann is listed as a widow in Leeds in 1841, lodging with Sarah (Coggill) Wilby and husband Benjamin.

Child: known is - Mary

 

1  Mary Coggill bur 1 Sep 1792, St Peter's, Leeds, dau of William Coggill, of decline.

 

7  George Coggill b 12 May 1780 (bapt 17 Jun 1780, St Peter's), Leeds, d 11 Jan 1867, New York, m 12 May 1807, St Peter's, Leeds, Anne Atkinson, b 3 May 1787, Leeds, d 17 Jul 1835, dau of Joseph Atkinson. George immigrated from Liverpool, registered as a British alien during War of 1812 as age 30 with wife and two children. Became a naturalized citizen 25 Mar 1818, New York Court District. He was described as a merchant in New York. He was said to have been caught in mid-Atlantic by the outbreak of the War of 1812, his ship captured by a privateer out of Newport, RI, and he and his family interned in Fishkill, NY, for the duration of the war. Together with his sons, he owned three ships at the outbreak of the Civil War. One, the Urania, was built at Brookhaven in 1855. Its portrait--a fine one--was in the possession of James C. Coggill in 1981. At the outbreak of the Civil War, one of the ships was caught by a Confederate raider and burned at sea. The other two ships were promptly sold. He donated the herd of Yorkshire black-faced sheep that grazed the sheep meadow in Central Park until 1934, and for whom the sheep meadow is named. The family visited England on several occasions, shown arriving New York 1 Sep 1827 (on the Corinthian), and others singly in 1839, 1844, 1848, and 1849. George had an obituary published in the New York Times, January 13th, 1867. Both bur Greenwood Cem., Brooklyn.

Children: known are - Mary, Henry, George, Charles, Louisa, Frederick, Julia, Catherine

 

1  Mary Anne Coggill b 29 Apr 1808 (bapt 19 Jul 1808, St Peter's), Leeds, d 18 Mar 1873, m 9 Sep 1835, St Luke's, New York City, John William Smyth, b 28 Jul 1807, d 10 Dec 1866. Mary shown as Margaret on an 1827 passenger list.

 

2  Henry Coggill b 12 Mar 1810 (bapt 24 Jul 1810, St Peter's), Leeds, d 26 Apr 1868, m Ann Eudora West, b 1810, PA/MD/NY (varies over censuses), d 29 Jul 1887. Henry claimed (on his passport application in 1858) to have arrived in the US at age two. He was shown as a wool dealer in New York, apparently in business with brother Fred. Both bur Green-Wood Cem., Brooklyn, NY.

Children: known are - Anna, Mary, Henry

 

1  Anna Atkinson Coggill b Jan 1836, NY, d 27 May 1914. Bur Green-Wood Cem., Brooklyn, NY.

 

2  Mary Louise Coggill b Jul 1838, NY, d 7 Mar 1914. Bur Green-Wood Cem., Brooklyn, NY.

 

3  Henry Coggill b Sep 1841, NY, d Oct 1911. Henry was a stock broker in New York. Apparently never married. His mother and sisters lodged with him. Bur Green-Wood Cem., Brooklyn, NY.

 

3  George Coggill bapt 20 Jun 1811, St Peter's, Leeds. Alive in 1826 when he returned to the US with his family. No further information (one report, unsourced, has died "of yellow fever, date unknown".

 

4  Charles Joseph Coggill b 9 Feb 1813 (bapt 4 Apr 1813 Saint Mark's Church, New York City), bur 7 Apr 1872, m, as her 2nd husband, Gloriana (Muir) Cooper, b ca 1817, NY, d 21 Mar 1869, Paris, France, dau of Alexander and Ann Muir. Charles shown as a merchant in Brooklyn in 1850. In his will (probated 11 Apr 1872), Charles left bequests from his large estate to his step-dau Maria Louisa Cooper, Charles Coggill Muir (son of his brother-in-law Alexander Muir), Charles Coggill Richardson, and Charles Coggill Fisher. Both bur Green-Wood Cem., Brooklyn, NY.

Child: known is - Isabel

 

1  Isabel Coggill b 17 Aug 1850, NY, d 1936, m 1875, Manhatten, Edward Stephen (also as Stephen Edward) Nash.

 

5  Louisa Coggill b 1 May 1815, d 16 Jul 1865, m 13 May 1846, Henry Richardson, b ca 1810. Henry was a lawyer in New York in 1860. They had a son, Charles Coggill Richardson, who received a bequest in Charles Coggill's will.

 

6  Frederick William Coggill b 29 Aug 1822, d 3 Dec 1870 (bur 5 Dec 1870), m 13 Jun 1863, Christ Church, Norfolk, VA, Julia Mitchell, b 1841, VA, d 29 Nov 1915. In 1860 Fred is shown as a merchant lodging with brother Henry. Both bur Green-Wood Cem., Brooklyn, NY.

Children: known are - Ella, George, Julia

 

1  Ella Virginia Coggill b Jul 1864, NY, d 1932, m 17 Nov 1886, Manhatten, Levin Joynes, b May 1861, VA. Levin was a physician in Richmond, VA, in 1900.

 

2  George Coggill b 7 Apr 1867, NY, d 6 Aug 1940, m 9 Dec 1905, Cuyahoga Co., OH, Helen Church Hickox, b 8 Jul 1874, NY, d 9 Jan 1968. George is shown as a lawyer in Manhatten in 1910. Both bur Green-Wood Cem., Brooklyn, NY.

Children: known are - George Jr, James

 

1  George Coggill Jr b 17 Jul 1907, NY, d 9 Apr 1988, m 1965, Elizabeth McDonald Harris, b 26 Mar 1921, IN, d 19 Feb 2007, dau of Mrs. Wilmer C. Harris. Last address: NY, NY. George was a veteran of WW II, joining the USAAF in Sep 1942 and served as a legal officer with the 8th Air Force in Europe, leaving the service as a captain in May 1946. He was a graduate of Yale in 1929 and of Yale Law School in 1932. At the time of his death he was a retired attorney.

 

2  James Church Coggill b 7 Feb 1911, NY, d 29 Jul 1982. Last address: NY, NY.

 

3  Julia Coggill b 9 Nov 1869, NY, d 7 Mar 1935. Bur Green-Wood Cem., Brooklyn, NY.

 

7  Julia Coggill b 8 Aug 1824, NY, d 12 Dec 1873, m 10 Apr 1849, NY, George Absalom Peters, b ca 1821, VT.

 

8  Catherine Matilda Coggill b 7 Mar 1828, NY, d 27 Oct 1917, m 13 May 1846, New York City, Samuel Whittemore Torrey, b 29 Apr 1823, NY, d 6 Feb 1903.

 

3  Anne Cowgill, dau of Ambrose and Grace Cowgill, bur 25 Dec 1647, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven.

 

William Cowgill bapt 14 Sep 1650, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven, bur 7 Nov 1734, Thornton in Craven, m 15 Jun 1681, Long Preston ("the one of Thornton, the other of Gigheswids (Giggleswick?)), Margaret Robinson, bur 28 Dec 1725, Thornton in Craven. William was described as a carpenter and blacksmith of Thornton. Note: this marriage and the resulting line is posited on William’s age (31 at marriage); no other known William is a likely candidate, although there may have been another William Cowgill born at Thornton during the gaps in the parish record.

Children: known are – John, Jane, William (1st), James, Joseph, William (2nd), Christopher

 

1  John Cowgill bapt 18 Apr 1682, Thornton in Craven, bur 27 Mar 1748, Thornton in Craven, m(1) 9 Feb 1715/16, Thornton in Craven, Janet Dodgeson, d before 1724 (?); m(2) ca 1724, Jane Wilkinson. John was a blacksmith, later a carpenter in Thornton in Craven.

Children: known are – Cowgill (Christopher), Margaret, Jane, William, Joseph

 

1  Christopher Cowgill bapt 10 May 1713 (as Cowgill Dodgson), Thornton in Craven, "a bastard child of Jenett Dodgson, widow, and John Cowgill, a carpenter of Thornton", bur 26 Jan 1781, Thornton in Craven, m 15 Nov 1738 (record has "by asking"), Broughton, Mary Sager of Elslack, spinster, bur 20 May 1796, Thornton in Craven. Christopher was described as a carpenter in Thornton.

Children: known are – Ellen, Jenet, John, Sally

 

1  Ellen Dodgson bapt 8 Jul 1739, Thornton in Craven, probably the Ellen Cowgill who m 24 Feb 1765, Thornton in Craven, William Pounder of Leeds, a whitesmith.

 

2  Jenet Dodgson bapt 27 Dec 1740, Thornton in Craven, probably the Jennet Cowgill who m 14 Sep 1764, Thornton in Craven, Henry Robinson, a farmer, “both of Thornton”.

Child: known is (others after marriage) - William

 

William Cowgill b 6 May 1763 (bapt 26 Jun 1763), Thornton in Craven, d 1835/6. The baptismal entry for William states “illegitimate son of Jennet Cowgill, spinster, of Thornton, Henry Robinson reputed father”. William’s will, dated Jan 1836 (he is listed as "Robinson alias Cowgill") left bequests to several Robinson siblings.

 

3  John Cowgill b 4 Jun 1750 (bapt 1 Jul 1750, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven), bur 28 Feb 1826, aged 75y, Thornton in Craven, m 3 Mar 1778, St Bartholomew's, Colne, Elizabeth (“Betty”) Parkinson, b ca 1749, d 21 May 1836 (bur 24 May 1836, aged 87y), Thornton in Craven (in Alms Houses at time of death). At marriage in Colne John described as “of Thornton”; later as a carpenter of Thornton. He is listed on the 1803 Craven Muster Roll in Class 4 (“other”). John is shown on the 1782 tax list (first year available) as a leaser of a parcel from John Lister Keye. Elizabeth’s obituary states she was the widow of John Cowgill, “late of the Sun Inn” in Thornton in Craven.

Children: known are – Christopher, Mary, William, Ruth, Elizabeth (“Betty”)

 

1  Christopher Cowgill b 14 Aug 1778 (bapt 20 Sep 1778, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven), bur 26 Aug 1849, aged 71y, Thornton in Craven, m(1) 6 Aug 1805, Goodramgate Parish, City of York, Ann Busey, bur 8 May 1817, aged 32y, Thornton in Craven; m(2) 25 Jul 1819, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: William Wilkinson, Christopher Brown), Jane Holgate, a widow, bur 8 Jan 1850, aged 74y, Thornton in Craven. Christopher a carpenter; listed on an 1803 Muster Roll as carpenter, single, age under 30, and in the 1822 Baines's Directory and Gazetteer Directory for Thornton in Craven with brother William under “carpenters and wheelwrights”, and in Pigot's Directory of 1834 as a wheelwright. Christopher is shown on tax lists in 1821 – 1824 (no records available for following years) as a leaser of a parcel from John Lister, possibly the plot formerly leased by his father.

Children: known are – Joseph, Betty, George, Thomas

 

1  Joseph Cowgill b 13 May 1806 (bapt 8 Jun 1806, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven; also bapt on 26 Jun 1813 at Ickornshaw Wesleyan Methodist Church in Kildwick), bur 15 Mar 1877, aged 70y, Barnoldswick (or Thornton in Craven?), m 26 Jan 1832, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: William Brown, Thomas Bolton), Mary Cowgill, b 20 Apr 1810, bapt 8 Jul 1810, Thornton in Craven, bur 8 Dec 1884, aged 74y, Thornton in Craven, dau of John and Betty (Smith) Cowgill. This is probably the Joseph Cowgill listed in Pigot’s Directory of 1834 for Skipton as “carriers, to Kelbrook, from the Cock & Bottle, every Saturday”. Joseph was an agricultural laborer in Earby (1841), and a carter in Barnoldswick (1851 and later, but not located on the 1861 census).

Children: known are – William, Christopher, John, Ann, George

 

1  William Cowgill b 18 Sep 1831 (bapt Earby Baptist Chapel), d 12 Jul 1897, Lancashire, m 24 Jun 1854, St Mary-le-Gill, Barnoldswick, Elizabeth Harrison, b ca 1834, Barnoldswick, d 1896, dau of James Harrison. William a weaver in Little Marsden, Lancashire, later (by 1891) a coaler. Note: William not located on the 1861 census.

Children: known are – Esther, Elizabeth, William, James, Joseph, Robinson, George, John, Benjamin, Ephraim, Mary, Rennie

 

1  Esther Ann Cowgill b 1855, Barnoldswick, m 24 Dec 1874, St Bartholomew’s, John Leaver, b ca 1850, son of Bannister Leaver.

 

2  Elizabeth Ellen Cowgill b 1858, d 1860.

 

3  William Cowgill b 1861, d 1864.

 

4  James Cowgill b 1863, Nelson, Lancashire, d 3 Jan 1907, m 1885, Eda Britton, b ca 1865, Nelson, d 6 May 1926. James was a weaver in Nelson.

Children: known are – Florence, Harold, Albert, Wilfred, Horace, Arthur, James, Walter, Herbert, John

 

1  Florence Cowgill b 1887, m 1942, George Albert Sutcliffe, b 1888, d 1965.

 

2  Harold Cowgill b 1889, d 15 Jan 1915, of wounds, bur Ligny-en-Cambresis Communal Cem., plot 9, Allied British Section. Harold was a private in the 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment.

 

3  Albert A. Cowgill b 1891, d 10 May 1917, of wounds received in action in France during WW I, bur Ste Catherine British Cem., plot D 13. Albert was a private in the 11th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment.

 

4  Wilfred Cowgill b 1893, d 1963, m 1919, Clara Hartley, b 16 Feb 1896, d 1978.

 

5  Horace Cowgill b 1895, d 1914.

 

6  Arthur Cowgill b 1896, d 1967, m 1918, Kezia Foulds, b 2 Feb 1896, d 1971.

    Children: known are - Rowland, Eric, Kenneth

 

1  Rowland Cowgill b 23 Aug 1919, d 1981, m 1946, St John the Evangelist's, Great Marsden, Minnie Mullender.

    Children: known are - Colin, Christine, Steven

 

2  Eric Cowgill b 30 Jan 1921, d 1999, m 1949, St Paul's, Little Marsden, Brenda Holden.

    Child: known is - Maureen

 

3  Kenneth Cowgill b 1926, d 1935.

 

7  James Willie Cowgill b 1898, d 1965, m 1923, St John the Evangelist's, Great Marsden, Ada Cowgill, b 3 Oct 1896, d 1993, dau of Hartley and Rosanna Cowgill.

 

8  Walter Cowgill b 27 Dec 1902, Nelson, d 1995, m 1927, St Mary's, Nelson, Florrie Farnell, b 19 Aug 1905, d 1998.

    Child: known is - Kathleen

 

1  Kathleen Cowgill b 1928, d 1933, age 4.

 

9  Herbert Cowgill b 27 Dec 1902, Nelson, d 1985, m 1922, St John the Evangelist's, Great Marsden, Gladys Tillotson, b 22 Nov 1902, d 1988.

    Children: known are - Nina, Iris, Norman, Jean, Herbert

 

10 John Henry Cowgill b 11 Mar 1906, Nelson, d 1983, m 9 Sep 1933, St Philip's, Nelson, Nancy Clark, b 5 Nov 1910, d 1993, dau of James Clark.

 

5  Joseph Cowgill b 1865, Nelson, Lancashire, d 1907. Joseph was a mason’s laborer in Nelson in 1901.

 

6  Robinson Cowgill b 1868, Little Marsden, d 13 Dec 1937, m 1888, Alice Dewhurst, b ca 1869, d 1 Oct 1941. Robinson was a weaver in Nelson, Lancashire.

    Child: known is - Percy

 

1  Percy Cowgill b 1896, d 1899.

 

7  George Cowgill b 1870, Little Marsden, m 1896, Edith Jane Varley, b ca 1872, d 1938. George was a weaver in Brierfield. Note: the 1911 census indicates Edith had two other children who died previously. Children: known are – Annie, Sarah, Bertha, Mary, George, Margaret, Maud

Children: known are – Sarah, Margaret, Maud

 

1  Annie Cowgill b 1892, d 1892.

 

2  Sarah Ann Cowgill b 5 Sep 1893, Brierfield, Lancashire, m(1) 1917, St James', Church Kirk, Thomas Mcnamee (they had earlier taken banns at St Luke the Evangelist, Brierfield); m(2) 1929, John William Lister.

 

3  Bertha Louisa Cowgill b 1895, d 1897.

 

4  Mary Jane Cowgill b 1897, d 1898.

 

5  George William Cowgill b and d 1899.

 

6  Margaret Elizabeth Cowgill b and d 1900, Brierfield.

 

7  Maud Mary Cowgill b and d 1902, Brierfield.

 

8  John Henry Cowgill b 1873, Little Marsden, d 1895.

 

9  Benjamin Cowgill (twin) b 1875, Little Marsden, d 1875. Note: these twins may instead be children of Thomas and Charlotte (Harrison) Cowgill.

 

10 Ephraim Cowgill (twin) b 1875, Little Marsden, d 1875. Note: these twins may instead be children of Thomas and Charlotte (Harrison) Cowgill.

 

11 Mary Ann Cowgill b 7 Oct 1876, Burnley, d 30 Nov 1956, m(1) 1897, Stephen Herbert Nutter; m(2) ca 1908, William Andrew Kench Foulis, b 1883, d 1968. In Providence, RI, by 1910. Immigrated 1905?

 

12  Rennie Cowgill b 1878, Nelson, d 1921, m 1901, St Paul's, Little Marsden, as her 2nd husband, Emily Stimpson, b ca 1876, Ireland. Rennie was a mineral water carter in Nelson in 1911.

 

2  Christopher Cowgill b 7 May 1833 (bapt Earby Baptist Chapel), bur 22 Oct 1856, aged 23y, Barnoldswick (or Thornton in Craven?).

 

3  John Cowgill b 11 May 1835 (Earby Baptist Chapel), bur 1 Feb 1843, aged 7y, Thornton in Craven.

 

4  Ann Cowgill b 23 Feb 1837 (bapt Earby Baptist Chapel), d 1858, age 20.

 

5  George Cowgill b 1839, d 1882, Nelson, Lancashire, bur 24 Jan 1882, aged 42y, Thornton in Craven, m 23 Jun 1877, St Mary-le-Gill's, Barnoldswick, Margaret Hey, b ca 1844, Barnoldswick, d 1905, dau of John Hey. George was a weaver. He apparently left Barnoldswick for Nelson after his father’s death.

Children: known are – Annie, Ada

 

1  Annie Cowgill b 1879, m 1906, John Lund, b ca 1878.

 

2  Ada Cowgill b 1881. Ada was a weaver lodging with her aunt, Alice Hey, in Nelson in 1911. This must be the Ada Cowgill who m 1914, Rennie Richardson, b ca 1890. 

 

2  Betty (Elizabeth?) Cowgill b 6 Sep 1807 (bapt 4 Oct 1807, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven),

 

3  George Bussey Cowgill b 5 Apr 1810 (bapt 29 Apr 1810, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven), d 18 Mar 1868, Clitheroe, Lancashire, m(1) 24 Jul 1834, St James’, Clitheroe, Jane Atkinson, b ca 1806, d 1842, Clitheroe; m(2) 9 Oct 1842, St Mary Magdalene's, Clitheroe, Maria (Fielding) Beardsley, a widow b ca 1821 (1816?), Clitheroe, d 1883, Clitheroe, dau of George Fielding. George described as a joiner and builder in Clitheroe.

Children: known are – Mary, Ann, George, Maria, John, Ellen, Christopher, James, Thomas, William

 

1  Mary Cowgill b ca 1835, m 1879, Clitheroe, as his 2nd wife, William Hanson, b ca 1835, a weaver in Clitheroe.

 

2  Ann Cowgill b 28 Feb 1837 (bapt 14 May 1837, St Mary’s, Clitheroe), d 1842, Clitheroe.

 

3  George Cowgill b 8 Jul 1843 (bapt 27 Aug 1843, St Mary’s, Clitheroe), d 1847, Clitheroe.

 

4  Maria Cowgill b 3 May 1845 (bapt 25 May 1845, St Mary’s, Clitheroe), m 1867, Clitheroe, James Jackson, b ca 1845, Clitheroe, a grocer and confectioner. Maria and family were living next door to her widowed mother in 1881.

 

5  John Cowgill b 8 Oct 1847 (bapt 31 Oct 1847), d 16 Oct 1887, Clitheroe, m(1) 1874, Clitheroe, Emily Hargreaves, b abt 1848, d 1879, Clitheroe; m(2) 16 Nov 1882, St Leonard's, Langho (Blackburn), Ann Whitehead, b ca 1850, Pleasanton, Lancashire, d 30 Oct 1921, dau of William Whitehead. John was a printer and picture framer in Clitheroe.

Children: known are – George, Dora, Thomas, Helen, Bertha

 

1  George Cowgill b 1875, Clitheroe, d 1948, m 1897, Laura Hoyle, b ca 1875, d 1944. George was a letter press printer manager in Clitheroe in 1911.

Child: known is - John

 

1  John Clifford Cowgill b 1899, Clitheroe, d 1969, m 1925, Ada Gertrude Hartley, b 17 Dec 1902, d 1999.

    Children: known are - George, John

 

1  George Bryan Cowgill b 27 May 1927, d 14 Jul 2008, m(1) 1951, Clitheroe, St Mary Magdalene's, Doreen Thompson; m(2) 1966, Dorset, Jennifer E. Baker. Bryan was at various times a pioneering sports broadcaster, the controller of BBC1, the managing director of Thames Television and a prime player in satellite TV. He joined the Royal Marines, eventually becoming a lieutenant in what was then the 3rd Royal Marine Commando Brigade, and serving in south-east Asia from 1943 to 1947. 

   Children: known are - two sons

 

2  John Hartley Cowgill b 1931

 

2  Dora Cowgill b 1877, Clitheroe, m 7 Aug 1899, St Mary Magdalene's, Clitheroe, George William Jones, b ca 1877, Staffordshire, a law clerk in Clitheroe in 1901.

 

3  Thomas Cowgill b 15 Apr 1879, Clitheroe, d 3 Oct 1966, m 8 Apr 1903, St James', Clitheroe, Ada Ellen Catlow, b 6 Jan 1886, d 5 Nov 1970, dau of Adam and Dinah Ashworth Catlow. Thomas was a grocer’s assistant, lodging with his step-mother in 1901. Thomas enlisted for service during World War I, but was medically discharged.

Children: known are – Ivy, Daisy, Leslie, Roland, Madeline, Josephine, Victor, Geoffrey, Kenneth

 

1  Ivy Cowgill b 6 Mar 1904, Clitheroe, m 1932, Robert Glen Kerr.

 

2  Daisy Cowgill b 26 Aug 1908, Clitheroe, m 1933, Frank Pearce.

 

3  Leslie Cowgill b 27 Sep 1911, Lytham, d 1986, m 1941, Holy Trinity, South Shore, Blackpool, Margery Fells, b 31 Jul 1912, d 2005.

    Children: known are - John, Jean, Peter

 

4  Roland Cowgill b 4 Apr 1913, Blackburn, d 1998, m 1940, Lytham, St John's, Mary Gregg.

 Children: known are - Michael, Ian, Rosaleen

 

5  Madeline Cowgill b 28 Feb 1915, Lytham, m 1934, Kinoshita Bunshike.

 

6  Josephine Cowgill b 6 Apr 1917, Lytham, m 1940, James K. Holding.

 

7  Victor Cowgill b 23 Aug 1919, Lytham, d 1998, m ____.

 

8  Geoffrey Cowgill b 1921, Lytham, m 1954, Marjorie (Haworth) Smith.

    Children: known are - Martin, Shauna

 

9  Kenneth Cowgill b 1923, Lytham, d 1923.

 

4  Helen Cowgill b 1883, Clitheroe, m 1917, James Quinn. Helen and sister Bertha listed in 1901 as pupils at the Roman Catholic Convent college and school at Marlow, Buckinghamshire, as elementary school teachers in Clitheroe in 1911.

 

5  Bertha Cowgill b 1885, Clitheroe, d 27 Nov 1940. Bertha and sister Helen listed in 1901 as pupils at the Roman Catholic Convent college and school at Marlow, Buckinghamshire, as elementary school teachers in Clitheroe in 1911.

 

6  Ellen Cowgill b 15 Mar 1850 (bapt 7 Apr 1850, St Mary’s, Clitheroe), m 1871, Clitheroe, William Wilkinson, a draper in Clitheroe. They had a son, Edward Cowgill Wilkinson, b 1878.

 

7  Christopher Cowgill b 18 May 1852 (bapt 6 Jun 1852), d 1901, Clitheroe, m 10 Sep 1874, St Mary Magdalene's, Clitheroe, Isabella Tillotson, b ca 1857, Colne, d 29 Mar 1913. Christopher a joiner and builder in Clitheroe; an innkeeper there in 1891; a farmer in 1901.

Child: known is - Anne

 

1  Anne “Annie” Maria Cowgill b 1875, St Mary's, Whalley, m 17 May 1899, St Mary and All Saints', Whalley, George Henry Taylor, b ca 1871, a cotton mill manager in 1901. On the 1891 census, Annie Maria is listed as a bar maid in Colne, lodging with her aunt (sister of Isabella) and uncle. Annie and George are the likely parents of Geoffrey Cowgill Taylor, b 1905, Clitheroe.

 

8  James Cowgill b 1854, Clitheroe, d 1903, m(1) 1877, Clitheroe, Harriet Maria Hayhurst, b ca 1855, Clitheroe, d 1887, Clitheroe; m(2) 1889, Annie Maria Squires, b ca 1858, d 4 Feb 1891 (bur 6 Feb 1891, St Bartholomew’s, Great Harwood). James was a house painter in Clitheroe and (by 1891) in Blackburn.

Children: known are – Maria, Lincoln, William

 

1  Maria Cowgill b 1878, Clitheroe, d 23 Nov 1937, Penwortham.

 

2  Lincoln Cowgill b 1880, Clitheroe, d 1956, m 16 Jun 1924, Holy Trinity, Morecambe, Bessie Bond.

 

3  William Cowgill b 1883, Blackburn, d 1946, age 63.

 

9  Thomas Cowgill b 1857, Clitheroe, d 1911, Clitheroe, m 16 May 1882, Christ Church, Chatburn, Margaret Cockshutt, b ca 1861, d 1949. Thomas was a butcher and farmer in Clitheroe.

Children: known are – Alice, Ethel

 

1  Alice Cowgill b 1883, Clitheroe, m 1906, William Whipp.

 

2  Ethel Cowgill b 1892, Clitheroe, d 1973, m 1917, Frederick John Worswick.

 

10 William Cowgill b 1860, Clitheroe, d 1900, Chorley, m 1887, Clitheroe, Mary Ann Crook, b ca 1864, Lancaster, d 30 Jul 1936. William was a printer compositor in Chorley.

Children: known are – Maude, Agnes, Florence, Joseph, John

 

1  Maude Cowgill b 1888, Bolton, Lancashire

 

2  Agnes Cowgill b 1890, Chorley, d 1892.

 

3  Florence Cowgill b 1892, Chorley, m 1921, James Craven Ainsworth.

 

4  Lilian Agnes Cowgill b and d 1895, Chorley.

 

5  Joseph Cowgill b 9 Oct 1896, Chorley, d 1978, m Jul 1922, St Michael's, Blackburn, Eleanor Grimshaw, b 13 May 1898, d 1972, dau of Thomas Grimshaw. Joseph was a veteran of World War I, enlisting 1915 in Dothian's Border Horse Regt; served later in Mesopotamia; medically discharged after contracting malaria in 1919.

    Children: known are - Frank, Eva

 

1  Frank Cowgill b 14 Dec 1922, d 1997, m 1957, All Saints', Higher Walton, Greta Taylor.

    Children: known are - Harry, Helen, Neal

 

2  Eva Cowgill b 1927, m 1952, St Ambrose's, Leyland, Geoffrey Wright.

 

6  John Cowgill b 1899, Chorley, d 1935, m 1920, Alice Bolton, b 27 Dec 1911, d 1989.

    Children: known are - William, Alice

 

1  William James Cowgill b 24 Feb 1921, d 1987, m 1941, Doreen Bulcock, b 1 Jun 1923, d 1986.

    Children: known are - John, Lynne

 

2  Alice Cowgill b 1922, d 1925.

 

4  Thomas Cowgill bapt 7 Oct 1814, Thornton in Craven, d Clitheroe, bur 14 Apr 1864, aged 49y, Thornton in Craven, m 24 Dec 1849, St Bartholomew's, Colne, as her 2nd husband, Elizabeth “Betty” Walton, b ca 1808 (age 41 at marriage), d Clitheroe, bur 19 Feb 1878, aged 69y, Thornton in Craven. Thomas, apparently single and a sawyer, is listed as lodging with his parents in 1841; at marriage he was described as “of Castle, Colne Twp”; in 1851 he was in Colne as a weaver, married with a dau aged 12 (from Elizabeth’s 1st m); in 1861 also in Colne, he is again described as a sawyer with children including a son Francis aged 18, also a child of Elizabeth’s 1st marriage. Francis is listed on the 1891 and 1901 censuses as a Cowgill. Rhoda and Mary may have been listed as last name Walton at birth (need birth records to verify).

Children: thought to include – Mary, Rhoda

 

1  Mary Cowgill b 1851 (as Mary Walton), Colne. This must be the Mary Cowgill who m 8 Nov 1873, St James', Clitheroe, Thomas Pye, and d 1879, age 28, Clitheroe. Thomas is listed as a widower with two sons on the 1881 census.

 

2  Rhoda Cowgill b 1853 (as Rhoda Walton), Colne, m 1875 (as Rhoda Walton), Clitheroe, Abraham Roberts.

 

2  Mary Cowgill b 11 Apr 1780 (bapt 4 Jun 1780, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven), m 19 Sep 1805, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: John Ridihough, John Bolton), Thomas Bolton. Shown at Fence End (Thornton) in 1841/1851. Thomas was a witness to the marriage of Mary's nephew, Joseph Cowgill.

 

3  William Cowgill b 16 Mar 1782 (bapt 16 Jun 1782, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven), d 26 Oct 1837 (bur 29 Oct 1837, aged 55y), Thornton in Craven, m(1) 18 Apr 1803, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Richard Atkinson, Christopher Cowgill), Hannah Hartley (this is probably the Hannah Cowgill, bur 25 Feb 1823, aged 45y, Thornton in Craven); m(2) 6 Nov 1823 at Gisburn, Susannah Holden, b ca 1784, Twiston, bur 5 Dec 1852, age 68, at Thornton in Craven (burial record states Susan was a carpenter's widow). William was described as a carpenter; he is listed on an 1803 Muster Roll as a carpenter, single, age 17-29, and in the 1822 Baines's Directory and Gazetteer Directory for Thornton in Craven with brother Christopher under “carpenters and wheelwrights”, and in Pigot's Directory of 1834 as a wheelwright. A Sarah Holden, only dau of Mrs Cowgill of Fence End, Earby, married John Bolton in 1839, James Cowgill a witness. The marriage record states Sarah was an illegitimate child.

Children: known are – John, James, Sarah

 

1  John Cowgill b 22 Apr 1804 (bapt 10 Jun 1804, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven), d 12 Apr 1875, Settle, bur Salterforth Friends Burial Ground, m(1) 4 Aug 1825, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: John Speak, Mary Middleton, William Bolton), Ann Geldard, b ca 1799, d 1849, age 51; m(2) 13 May 1857, at Friends Meeting Place, Skipton, Sarah Tatham, b 6 Apr 1809, d 9 Oct 1880, age 72, bur Settle Friends Meeting House (Sarah’s tombstone still clearly readable in the garden there), dau of John and Bridget Tatham. John was parish clerk of Thornton in Craven in 1826; in Leeds (by 1841); back to Thornton (by 1851) as a shopkeeper of a grocery store; in Settle as a tea dealer (by 1861) and linen draper (by 1871). He became a Quaker, admitted to membership in the Society of Friends 21 Oct 1836, and later became a Quaker minister. He was struck by paralysis during the winter of 1872-73 when on a religious visit to Pontefract, and was laid by for the rest of his life (much of the information on the family of John is from research by descendant Ralph Fredrick Cowgill). Son John emigrated to America (see link).

Children: known are – Hannah Hartley, Mary Ann Hartley, Susannah Ramsden, John Edmondson, Eliza, Elizabeth

 

1  Hannah Hartley Cowgill b 22 May 1826 (bapt 18 Jun 1826, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven), d 7 Feb 1915, Thornton in Craven, m 13 Nov 1851, Skipton Registrar's Office, John Cowgill Riley, b 14 Feb 1829, Lancashire, d 25 Sep 1905, the son of Isabella Cowgill and possibly James Cowgill (see below).

 

2  Mary Ann Hartley Cowgill bapt 9 Sep 1827, Thornton in Craven, d 23 Mar 1837 (bur 26 Mar 1837), Brighouse MM (Halifax).

 

3  Susannah Ramsden Cowgill b 30 Sep 1828 (bapt 12 Oct 1828, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven), d 20 Apr 1840, Leeds.

 

John Edmondson Cowgill (see link).

 

5  Eliza Cowgill b 1831 (bapt 16 Jul 1831, Holbeck, Leeds), bur 15 Sep 1831, aged 9w, Brighouse MM (Halifax).

 

6  Elizabeth Cowgill b 1833 (bapt 22 May 1833), Leeds, d 12 Sep 1833 (bur 15 Sep 1833), aged 4m, Brighouse MM (Halifax).

 

2  James Cowgill b 21 Nov 1806 (bapt 21 Dec 1806, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven), d 1880, bur 4 Dec 1880, Thornton in Craven, m 17 Jan 1831, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: John Bolton, G Wilkinson), Isabella Riley, b 1807, Colne, Lancashire, d 1865. James a carpenter, at Booth Bridge in 1831, at Thornton thereafter. (Note: much of the information on this family is from descendant Laureen Wreggitt. See her website: www.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=laureen).

Children: known are – John (?), Susannah (1st), Hannah, William, Robert, Alexander, Henry, Susannah (2nd)

 

1  John Cowgill Riley b 14 Feb 1829 (?), Laneshaw Bridge (Colne), Lancashire, bapt 20 Apr 1828, Broughton Hall Catholic Church, Broughton (mother’s name Isabella Riley, father not given), d 25 Sep 1905, Thornton in Craven, m 13 Nov 1851, Hannah Hartley Cowgill, b 22 May 1826, bapt 18 Jun 1826, Thornton in Craven, d 7 Feb 1915, Thornton in Craven. It is unknown for sure who John’s father was as John was born before his mother married James Cowgill, and no father’s name was listed on the marriage certificate. James may well have been the father and the child was born before the wedding. John and Hannah raised John’s brother’s (Henry Marshall Cowgill’s) son, Henry Cowgill Jr, after both Henry and his wife, Margaret Chippindale, died, leaving the children orphaned. Henry lived with them until around 1891 when he moved in with his Uncle Alex (another brother of his father’s) to be reunited with his brother, William, who had been taken in by them. John was a carpenter in Thornton in Craven, also serving as postmaster (on 1881 census). John’s family line and a photo of John and Hannah are on Laureen Wreggitt’s website. (Note: the Cowgill DNA project would permit establishing James as John’s father). Mary Ann Cowgill Riley had a son, Harry Cowgill Rycroft, b 1891.

Children: known are - John, William, Annabella, Sarah, Mary Ann, Hannah Elizabeth

 

1  John Cowgill Riley b 1852, Thornton in Craven, m(1) 1 May 1878, Caroline Elizabeth Wallis, d before 1881; m(2) 1 Aug 1881, St Paul’s, Shipley, Martha Ingle (nee Longbottom), a widow, b ca 1838; m(3) Martha Ellen ____, b ca 1862, London, d 1901 (?); m(4) 1905, Nottinghamshire, Ellen (Kean or Potter), b ca 1874. In 1881 John was boarding at Martha Ingle`s home in Silsden; he was a chemist in Nottinghamshire in 1901 (not located on the 1871 and 1891 censuses), in Newcastle on Tyne by 1911.

Children: known are – John, Annabella

 

1  John William Cowgill Riley b 24 Nov 1878 (bapt 12 Oct 1879, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven)

 

2  Annabella Cowgill Riley b 1897, Hebden Bridge, d 1972, m ____ Bratley.

 

2  William Cowgill Riley b 1855, Thornton in Craven, d Mar 1929, m 1882, as her 2nd husband, Sarah A. (Land) Bell, b ca 1851, d 1910. William was a wheelwright in Thornton in Craven. There is a photo of William and his two daughters on the website cited above.

Children: known are – Ellen, Hugh, Annie, Reuben, Allan

 

1  Ellen Cowgill Riley b 16 May 1882 (bapt same date?, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven), d 1977, m 28 Feb 1911, St Mary's, William Mason, b ca 1884, son of Thomas Mason. They had a son, Cyril Cowgill Mason, b 1911.

 

2  Hugh Cowgill Riley b 28 May 1883 (bapt 5 Aug 1883, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven), bur 27 Nov 1884, St Mary's.

 

3  Annie Cowgill Riley b 25 Apr 1884 (bapt 25 May 1884, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven), m(1) 2 Dec 1914, St Mary’s, William Henry Wormwell, b ca 1882, son of Henry Wormwell; m(2) James Bushby.

 

4  Reuben Cowgill Riley b 17 Oct 1885 (bapt 22 Aug 1886, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven),

 

5  Allan Cowgill Riley b 29 Apr 1887 (bapt 12 Jun 1887, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven), m 2 Jul 1912, St Mary's, Louisa Farrow, b ca 1886, dau of William Farrow. The marriage record describes Allan as a railway clerk of Thornton.

 

3  Annabella Cowgill Riley b 1857, Thornton In Craven, m 1887, Thirsk, Thomas Stebbing Green. Annabella, as "Annie", was at the Low Green Friend's School in Rawdon in 1871, as was cousin Walter Cowgill. Thomas was a race horse trainer. Sister Hannah is listed as a visitor at Beverley in 1891.

 

4  Sarah Ellen Cowgill Riley b 6 Aug 1859, Thornton In Craven, d 19 Jul 1923, m 10 Jun 1885, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven, Stephen Pickles, b ca 1856, d 29 Sep 1934, son of Stephen Pickles. Stephen remarried to Sarah’s sister, Hannah (also known as Lizzie), in 1925.

 

5  Mary Ann Cowgill Riley b 2 May 1863 (bapt 11 Jul 1881, St Mary's, Thornton In Craven), m 14 Dec 1886, St Mary's, a widower, Tom Rycroft, b ca 1862, Foulridge, son of Roger Rycroft. They were in Nelson, Lancashire, in 1901. They had a son, Harry Cowgill Rycroft, b 1891.

 

6  Hannah Elizabeth Cowgill Riley b 17 Jul 1868 (bapt 10 Jul 1881, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven), m 24 Feb 1925, St Mary’s, her sister Sarah's widower, Stephen Pickles.

 

2  Susannah Cowgill (1st) bapt 28 Aug 1831, bur 8 Mar 1832, aged 1y, Thornton in Craven.

 

3  Hannah (also as Anna) Cowgill b 23 Feb 1833 (bapt 27 Oct 1833, Broughton Hall Catholic Church), Broughton, d 1888, m 26 Jan 1859, Holy Trinity Church, Tunstead, Lancaster, Richard Barrett, b 1830, Newark, Nottinghamshire, d 1898, Burnley, Lancashire. Richard shown as a coachman in Bacup in 1861.

 

4  William Cowgill b 12 Nov 1835 (bapt 3 Jan 1836, Broughton Hall Catholic Church), Broughton, d 18 Apr 1897, m 1859, Hannah Chapman, b ca 1839, Bishop Thornton, d 31 May 1908, dau of Matthias and Mary Chapman. William was a groom in Broughton, and an innkeeper near Whitewell by 1881.

Children: known are – Joseph, Mary, Agnes, Winifred, William, Isabella, Josephine, James, Monica, Ellen

 

1  Joseph Robert Cowgill b 23 Feb 1860, Broughton, d 12 May 1936. Joseph was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest 19 May 1883; appointed Titular Bishop of Olena and Coadjutor Bishop of Leeds 26 Sep 1905; succeeded to Bishop of Leeds 7 Jun 1911.

 

2  Mary Frances Cowgill b 1862, Broughton, m 1889, Clitheroe, Thomas Walker, b ca 1863.

 

3  Mary Agnes Cowgill b 1864, Broughton, m 1900, George Brennand, b ca 1865, a gamekeeper at Whitewell in 1901. They had a son, William Cowgill Brennand, b 1909.

 

4  Mary Winifred Cowgill b 1866, Broughton, m 1894, John W. Brown, b ca 1867. In 1901 John was a boiler maker in Toxteth Park.

 

5  William Henry Cowgill b 1868, Broughton, d 20 Aug 1931, m 1910, Clitheroe Civil District, Isabella Marsden, b ca 1882. William was an assistant innkeeper in 1901, a publican in Accrington in 1911.

 

6  Mary Isabella Cowgill b 1870, Broughton, m 1910, Robert Dobson.

 

7  Mary Josephine Cowgill b 1872, Broughton, m 1909, Leeds, Richard Walmsley, b ca 1879. Richard was a blacksmith in Roundhay in 1911.

 

8  James Hubert Cowgill b 1874, Whitewell, d 9 Jun 1923. Listed as an assistant innkeeper in 1901; lodging with sister Isabella in 1911.

 

9  Mary Monica Cowgill b 1876, Whitewell, m 1902, Clitheroe Civil District, Richard Craven.

 

10 Mary Ellen Cowgill b 1878, Whitewell, m 1910, John Watson, b ca 1876.

 

11 Charles John Cowgill b 1881, Whitewell, d 16 Mar 1946, age 64, m 1907, Annie Mary Gudgeon, b ca 1884, d 1924. Listed as an assistant innkeeper in 1901, a farmer in 1911.

Children: known are - Mary, James, Robert

 

1  Mary Isabella Cowgill b 1907, Slaidburn, m 1940, Joseph L. Cardwell.

 

2  James Joseph Cowgill b 23 Sep 1908, Slaidburn, d 1974.

 

3  Robert Cowgill b 20 Apr 1911, d 1978.

 

12 Mary Annie Cowgill b 1884, Whitewell. Annie is listed as an elementary school teacher in Preston in 1901, in London by 1911.

 

5  Robert Cowgill b 1839, Thornton in Craven, d 12 Jan 1889 (tuberculosis), Whitewell. Robert was a carpenter and wheelwright. He is listed as a lodger with brother Alexander and family in Gisburn on the 1881 census. Never married.

 

6  Alexander Cowgill b 1842, d 1900, Burnley, Lancashire, m 18 Apr 1868, Manchester, Ann Wilkinson, b 1847, Hellifield, Yorkshire, d 28 Jul 1890, Lawrence, MA, dau of ____ and Hannah Wilkinson. Alexander was a carpenter and wheelwright in Burnley (1871), Gisburn (1881) lodging with brother Robert, and back in Burnley by 1891. He had Henry Marshall Cowgill’s son William living with him in 1881, and William’s younger brother Henry also with his household in 1891.

Children: known are – Isabella, Margaret

 

1  Isabella Cowgill b 1869, Burnley, m 1902, Andrew Smith.

 

2  Margaret Hannah Cowgill b 1874, Gisburn, m 1902 or 1904, name unknown.

 

7  Henry Marshall Cowgill b 8 Sep 1844 (bapt 25 Jan 1845, Thornton in Craven), d 19 May 1879 (tuberculosis), Stacksteads, Lancashire, m 2 May 1867, Margaret Chippindale, b 1841, Clitheroe, d 6 Jun 1877 (chronic gastritis and exhaustion), Blackburn, dau of Thomas and Jane (Tomlinson) Chippindale. Henry was an innkeeper/beerseller. He died two years after his wife, Margaret, leaving his three sons orphans at age 11, 8 and 5. They were sent to live with different family members. Charles likely went to live with relatives of the surname Pickle(s), William went to live with his uncles Alexander and Robert, and Henry was sent to his uncle John and aunt Hannah Riley, eventually moving back to be reunited with his brother William by 1891. Charles emigrated to Canada (see link)

Children: known are – Charles (Harry) Frederick, James, James(2), William, Isabella, Henry, Robert, Jane

  

Charles (Harry) Frederick Cowgill (see link).

 

2  James Joseph Cowgill, son of Henry Marshall Cowgill, b 20 Mar 1869, Clitheroe, d 5 Apr 1869 (glandular disease of the bowels), Clitheroe.

 

3  James Cowgill b 1870, Clitheroe, d 13 Jan 1871 (phthisis), Blackburn.

 

4  William Cowgill b 12 Jun 1871, Blackburn, d 21 Feb 1921, m 11 Aug 1894, St Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, Burnley, Martha Ann Clegg, b 1871, Worsthorne, Lancashire, d 1942, dau of Joseph and Ann (Pickles) Clegg. William was raised by his uncle, Alexander Cowgill, after the death of his parents. He was a cotton weaver and window cleaner by trade. Martha shown as a widow in Methuen, MA, in 1930 living with dau Ann and family. She immigrated the US in 1927 on the “Laconia” with daughters Margaret and Mary and son William. Martha returned to England later.

Children: known are  – Ann, Henry, Margaret, Winifred, Sarah, Frederick, Alexander, Mary, Monica, William

 

1  Ann Cowgill b 1895, Burnley, m ca 1928, MA, Thomas Pendlebury, b ca 1888, England.

 

2  Henry Cowgill b 1897, Burnley, d 19 Aug 1917, a casualty of World War I. Henry was a pioneer in the 4th Field Survey Co., Royal Engineers. Bur Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension, plot III C 6.

 

3  Margaret Cowgill b 20 May 1898, Burnley, d 5 Mar 1986, Burnley. Immigrated with her mother in 1927, but returned to England.

 

4  Winifred Cowgill b 1900, Burnley

 

5  Sarah Cowgill b 1902, Leigh, d 1916.

 

6  Frederick Cowgill b 1 May 1904, Worsthorne, d 1971, m 1930, Kathleen Grant, b 28 Jul 1906, d 1988.

    Children: known are - Margaret, Kathleen, Henry, Frances, Frederick

 

7  Alexander Cowgill b 1905, Burnley, d 17 Apr 1910.

 

8  Mary Cowgill b 1907, Burnley, m 26 Jan 1930, Derry, NH, Harold Wrigley.

 

9  Monica Cowgill b 1909, Burnley, d 1911.

 

10 William Cowgill b 21 Sep 1910, Burnley, d 29 Oct 1983, m 27 Oct 1940, St John's Catholic Church, Burnley, Kathleen Rapson, b 2 Feb 1916, bur 17 Feb 1998, Burnley Cem. Immigrated with his mother in 1927; in Methuen, MA, with his mother in 1930; later returned to England.

Children: known are - David, Patricia, Anne, Gerald

 

3  Anne Cowgill b 11 Jun 1946, Burnley, d 21 Dec 1989, m ____.

 

5  Isabella Cowgill b 1872, Blackburn, d 14 Sep 1873, Blackburn.

 

6  Henry Cowgill b 5 Apr 1874, Blackburn, bur 1 May 1950, Burnley Cem., m 13 Jun 1899, St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, Burnley, Jane Sweeney, b 1879, Leigh, Lancashire, bur 12 Aug 1959, Burnley Cem., dau of Dominic and Bridget (Regan) Sweeney. After the death of his parents, Henry was raised first by John and Hannah Riley (he was living with them in 1881); by 1891, he was reunited with his brother William, and lived with him at the home of his uncle, Alexander Cowgill. His cousin, Margaret Cowgill (daughter of Alexander) was a witness to his marriage. Henry was a cotton weaver by trade.

Child: known is - Gertrude

 

1  Gertrude Josephine Cowgill b 29 Jan 1905, bur 21 Sep 1999, Burnley Cem.

 

7  Robert Cowgill b 1875, Blackburn, d 19 Sep 1876 (anemia and diarrhea), Blackburn.

 

8  Jane Cowgill b Aug 1876, Blackburn, d 26 Aug 1876, Blackburn.

 

8  Susannah Cowgill (2nd), dau of James and Isabella Cowgill, b 1847, Thornton in Craven, d 1908, Burnley, m 21 Jan 1871, St George’s Church, Chorley, Lancaster, Thomas Varley, b 1842, Todmorden, son of James and Jane Varley.

 

3  Sarah Cowgill, dau of William and Hannah Hartley Cowgill, b 27 May 1809, bapt 18 Jun 1809, Thornton in Craven, m 6 Jun 1831, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Ellen Bailey, John Bolton), Thomas Bailey, b 1806, Earby, d 1885, Leeds. Sarah and family were in Paythorne, Gisburn, in 1851. They are probably the parents of John Cowgill Bailey, b 1841. Their dau Hannah had a dau, Sarah Cowgill Wolfenden, b 1862.

 

4  Ruth Cowgill, dau of John and Betty Cowgill, b 11 Jun 1784, bapt 11 Jun 1784, Thornton in Craven, m 17 May 1812, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Thomas Emmott, John Hartley), James Knowles.

 

5  Elizabeth (“Betty”) Cowgill b 26 Jul 1787, bapt 20 Oct 1787, bur 23 Jul 1790, Thornton in Craven.

 

4  Sally Dodgson, dau of Christopher (also as Cowgill Dodgson) and Mary Cowgill, b 30 Dec 1755 (bapt 25 Jan 1756), Thornton in Craven, bur 20 Apr 1756.

 

2  Margaret Cowgill, dau of John and Janet (Dodgeson) Cowgill, bapt 1 Jul 1716, Thornton in Craven, m 5 Jun 1739, Thornton in Craven (or, possibly, at Kildwick), Thomas Mitchell of Kildwick, a farmer. The Bishop’s transcript has this as Mary Cowgill.

 

3  Jane Cowgill bapt 11 Jan 1719, Thornton in Craven, m 21 Oct 1745, Thornton in Craven, Christopher Emmott, a husbandman.

 

4  William Cowgill bapt 8 Oct 1721, bur 14 May 1726, Thornton in Craven.

 

5  Joseph Cowgill bapt 11 Oct 1724, bur 14 May 1726, Thornton in Craven.

 

2  Jane Cowgill, dau of William and Margaret (Robinson) Cowgill, bapt 16 Oct 1684, Thornton in Craven, m 26 Dec 1713, Thornton in Craven, Nathan Crabtree of Colne, stonemason.

 

3  William Cowgill (1st) bapt 11 Sep 1687 (record just states "child"), Thornton in Craven, bur 9 Jun 1691, Thornton in Craven.

 

4  James Cowgill bapt 26 Oct 1690, Thornton in Craven. No further information.

 

Joseph Cowgill bapt 31 Jul 1691, Thornton in Craven, bur 2 Jun 1765, Thornton in Craven, m 28 Apr 1715, Holy Trinity, Skipton, Esther Wilkinson, bur 31 Dec 1766, Thornton in Craven. At marriage, Joseph was described as a weaver of Thornton, Esther of Skipton; dau Rosemund’s bur record in Skipton describes Joseph as a farmer of Thornton; his death record has Joseph as of Kelbrook, Esther as a widow "out of the Parish of Kildwick".

Children: known are – William, James, Mary, Anne, Jane, Rosamund, Joseph (1st), Joseph (2nd), Margaret, John, Esther

 

1  William Cowgill bapt 14 Feb 1716, d 17 Feb 1717, Skipton.

 

2  James Cowgill bapt 28 Jan 1718, d 10 May 1718, Skipton.

 

3  Mary Cowgill bapt 27 Jul 1719, Skipton, probably the Mary Cowgill who m 24 Jul 1744, Thornton in Craven, William Windle of Earby, a weaver (“Mary of Thornton”).

 

4  Anne Cowgill bapt 24 Mar 1723, Skipton, probably the Ann Cowgill who m 23 Aug 1744, Thornton in Craven, Turner Snowden of Skipton, a laborer (“Ann of Thornton”). Anne bur 28 Feb 1800, Carleton.

 

5  Jane Cowgill bapt 28 Dec 1725, d 27 Dec 1726, Skipton.

 

6  Rosamund Cowgill bapt 25 Feb 1728, Skipton, bur 15 Apr 1750, Skipton.

 

7  Joseph Cowgill (1st) bapt 8 Jun 1729, d 5 Dec 1729, Skipton.

 

8  Joseph Cowgill (2nd) bapt 10 Nov 1730, d 4 Sep 1736, Skipton.

 

9  Margaret Cowgill bapt 26 Nov 1733, d 9 Jul 1734, Skipton.

 

10 John (or Jonathan?) Cowgill bapt 3 Aug 1735, d 26 Oct 1735, Skipton.

 

11 Esther Cowgill bapt 2 Feb 1737, bur 4 Feb 1737, Skipton.

 

William Cowgill (2nd) bapt 10 Nov 1695, Thornton in Craven, bur 3 Oct 1765, Thornton in Craven, m(1) 3 May 1720, Long Preston, Elizabeth Preston, bur 16 Feb 1753, Thornton in Craven; m(2) 2 Jun 1755, All Saints’, Broughton, Mary Ackerley. Mary remarried 28 Apr 1766, All Saints’, Broughton (also listed at Broughton Hall Catholic Church), Francis Chapman, by Banns. William was described early on as a carpenter (“fabri ligni”) of Thornton.

Children: known are – Joseph, Margaret, Elizabeth, Sarah, William, Stephen

 

1  Joseph Cowgill bapt 22 Jul 1722, Thornton in Craven, bur 4 Jun 1790, Thornton in Craven, m 2 Mar 1747/8, All Saints, Broughton, by Banns, Mary Swire, bapt 30 Jun 1723, bur 23 Jan 1806, Thornton in Craven, dau of William and Ellen Swire. Joseph was described as a carpenter in Elslack (Broughton), then in Salterforth (Barnoldswick) where he appears on a 1770 tax list, then to Thornton in Craven, and later (more specifically) as in Kelbrook. Joseph (and Mary, after his death) is shown on tax lists as leasing land from William Topham at Thick Bank (Kelbrook). Her burial record describes Mary as a “widow of Tunstead”. Note: Joseph’s marriage date and place, and Mary’s birth data were not found in Broughton parish records – need a source.The bishop's transcript lists Joseph's mother as Hannah Hartley - a misprint?

Children: known or suspected are – Sarah, Elizabeth, Elias, William, Jane, Mary, Joseph, Benjamin

 

1  Sarah Cowgill bapt 20 Aug 1749, Broughton, m 29 Jan 1771, St Mary-le-Gill, Barnoldswick, Matthew Lund, a hatter of Thornton. Sarah described as a mantua maker of Salterforth.

 

2  Elizabeth Cowgill bapt 24 Mar 1750, Broughton, m 14 Sep 1773 (BL Matthew Lund a witness), St Mary-le-Gill, Barnoldswick, Thomas Marsden, husbandman of Barnoldswick.

 

3  Elias Cowgill bapt 25 Mar 1753, Broughton, bur 26 Sep 1802, Thornton in Craven. The burial record describes Elias as a farmer of Kelbrook.

 

4  William Cowgill b 14 Feb 1755 (bapt 23 Mar 1755, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven), bur 24 Dec 1826, age 71, St Mary-le-Gill's, Barnoldswick, m 14 Dec 1775, St Bartholomew's, Colne, Alice Speak, b ca 1750, bur 26 Jun 1833, age 83, St Mary-le-Gill's. William was described as a carpenter/wheelwright of Lane Head in Salterforth. He appears on Barnoldswick land tax lists beginning 1802 as a lessee from William Bagstraw, Esq. Alice was listed as the taxpayer on this lease in 1822. William is listed on the 1803 Craven Muster Roll as an innkeeper, voluntary service, class 4 (others); and as a “victualler” at the Scotchman’s Arms in Barnoldswick in the 1822 Baines's Directory and Gazetteer.

Children: known are – Mary (1st), John, Jane, Nancy (Ann?), Sarah, Margaret, Mary (2nd), William, Alice

 

1  Mary Cowgill (1st) bapt 27 Oct 1776, St Mary-le-Gill's, Barnoldswick, bur 4 Feb 1781, St Mary-le-Gill's.

 

2  John Cowgill bapt 31 May 1778, St Bartholomew's, Colne, bur 26 Jan 1787, St Mary-le-Gill's, Barnoldswick.

 

3  Jane "Jenny" Cowgill bapt 8 Oct 1780, St Bartholomew's, Colne, m 21 Nov 1802, St Mary-le-Gill's, Robert Blizard (or Bleezard), b ca 1777. Robert was a carpenter in Marton in 1851.

 

4  Nancy (also shown as Ann) Cowgill bapt 6 Apr 1783, St Bartholomew's, Colne, bur 12 Jun 1801, St Mary-le-Gill's, Barnoldswick. 

 

5  Sarah Cowgill bapt 4 Dec 1785, St Bartholomew's, Colne, m 1 Mar 1808, St Mary-le-Gill's, Barnoldswick, John Lamb, a carpenter.

 

6  Margaret Cowgill bapt 10 Aug 1788, St Bartholomew's, Colne. No further information.

 

7  Mary Cowgill (2nd) bapt 10 Jan 1790, St Bartholomew's, Colne, m 11 Apr 1822, St Mary-le-Gill's, Barnoldswick, Thomas Smith. Thomas was a “publican” in Barnoldswick in 1841.

 

8  William Cowgill b 20 Apr 1792 (bapt 3 Jun 1792, St Bartholomew's, Colne), Salterforth, bur 8 Jun 1792, St Mary-le-Gill's.

 

9  Alice Cowgill b 9 May 1793 (bapt 7 Jul 1793, St Bartholomew's, Colne), Salterforth, m(1) 7 Feb 1815, St Mary-le-Gill's, Barnoldswick, "with consent of parents" (witnesses: James Sutcliffe, Ann Edmondson, William Blizard), Richard Rawsthorn, a laborer and, apparently, a minor; m(2) 28 Apr 1823, St Mary-le-Gill's, Barnoldswick, John Crawshaw, b ca 1791. In 1841 John was an innkeeper in Colne. Alice had a grandson, Joseph Cowgill Crawshaw, b 1854, d 1858.

 

5  Jane Cowgill, dau of Joseph Cowgill, b 7 Oct 1757 (bapt 30 Oct 1757, Thornton in Craven), bur 11 May 1758.

 

6  Mary Cowgill b 5 Jun 1759 (bapt 1 Jul 1759, Thornton in Craven), m 21 Oct 1779 (Mary a minor), St Andrew’s, Kildwick, Thomas Lund, a hatter and bachelor of Stone Trough. They had a grandson and great-grandson named Cowgill Lund. (need Banns to verify marriage).

 

7  Joseph Cowgill b 17 Aug 1762 (bapt 10 Oct 1762, Thornton in Craven), bur 29 Apr 1843, aged 84y, Thornton in Craven, m(1) 24 Nov 1785, St Bartholomew's, Colne, Elizabeth (“Betty”) Roberts; m(2) 10 Jul 1788, Kildwick, by certificate, Jane (“Jenny”) Hargreaves (described as a minor of Cowling at marriage), bur 27 Sep 1799, Cowling in Kildwick; m(3) 23 Aug 1804, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: George Hey, Francis Waddington), Margaret Williamson, bur 14 Feb 1862, aged 83y, Thornton in Craven. Joseph is probably the Joseph Cowgill listed on 1782 tax records (first year available) as a leaser of land in Steeton (Kildwick), then in Sutton in Kildwick for 1784 and 1785; he was described as a carpenter of Kelbrook on Benjamin’s birth record (1786); by 1790 he was described as a weaver in Blearside in Harden (Earby); at Foulridge in 1793; and of Hill Top (Earby) from 1804. This Joseph is listed on the 1803 Craven Muster Roll for Thornton as a weaver, class 2 (unmarried, age 30-49, no children under ten years of age). This would appear to be the Joseph Cowgill shown on tax lists as leasing land, probably the parcel his father leased, from George Smith beginning 1802. Note: The available data supports this lineage with two exceptions: at his marriage to Jane, he is described in the record as a “bachelor”, not widower (and where was son Benjamin?); and the Craven Muster Roll lists him as having no children under age 10 when he had three. Was there another Joseph?

Children: known are – Benjamin, John, James, Joseph, Thomas, Mary, William, unk, unk, Martha, Jenny (Jane?), Brian, Abraham, Jonas, Richard, George, Hannah

 

1  Benjamin Cowgill b 5 Mar 1786 (bapt 11 Jun 1786, Thornton in Craven), Kelbrook, d 19 Jul 1793, age 7, of smallpox, bur 21 Jul 1793, St Bartholomew's, Colne. The death record describes Benjamin as of Foulridge near Kelbrook.

 

2  John Cowgill b 1 Aug 1789 (bapt 20 Sep 1789, Kildwick), bur 7 Apr 1830, aged 40y, Thornton in Craven (John of Crowbeckle), m 6 Feb 1815, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: James Crowther, Hartley Windle), Jane Wilkinson, b ca 1795, bur 16 Dec 1834, aged 39y, (Jane of Earby). John described as a weaver of Earby (Hill Top), later as of Earby (Crowbeckle).

Children: known are – John, Henry, Mary, Joseph

 

1  John Cowgill bapt 14 Jan 1816, Thornton in Craven, d 1898, m 14 Oct 1839, Thornton in Craven, Elizabeth “Betty” Duxberry, b ca 1821, bur 19 Nov 1876, aged 56y, Thornton in Craven, dau of John and Ellen Duxberry. John was a weaver at Stony Bank, Earby. He and Betty were boarders with her presumed parents in 1841 and 1861.

Children: known are – Henry, William, Jane, Ellen, John, James

 

1  Henry Cowgill b 1840, Earby, d 1902, m 20 Nov 1858, Thornton in Craven, Ann Waterhouse, b ca 1841, Bingley, d 1898. Henry was a weaver in Earby.

Children: known are – William, Lavinia, Sarah, John, James, Elizabeth, Alfred, Betty, Willie, Gerald

 

1  William Cowgill b 1859, bur 3 Jul 1859, of Stoney Bank.

 

2  Lavinia Cowgill b 1862, Earby, m 1883, Skipton, Thomas Waddington, b 1865, a cotton mill worker in Earby in 1891.

 

3  Sarah Ann Cowgill b 1864, Earby, m 1888, Wilfred Preston, b ca 1862, Hawes, Yorkshire, a farm worker in Earby in 1891. The 1891 census shows a son, George H. Cowgill, aged 3. On the 1901 census he is George H. Preston. He emigrated to America (see link).

Child: known is (others after marriage) - George Henry

 

4  John Cowgill b 1866, Earby, d 1927, m 6 May 1893, St Bartholomew’s, Colne, Mary Matilda Farnhill, b ca 1870, Colne, d 6 Dec 1932, dau of William Farnhill. In 1901, John was a brewer’s laborer in Colne, a builder’s laborer in 1911.

Children: known are - William, Annie, Elizabeth, Ann, Jane, Arthur

 

1  William Henry Cowgill b 1893, d 1893.

 

2  Annie Cowgill b 1894, d 1894.

 

3  Elizabeth Jane Cowgill b 1897, Colne, m(1) 1930, St John's Methodist Church (Albert Rd), Colne, Rennie Welch; m(2) 1967, Baptist Chapel (East Parade), Colne, Edgar Buckley.

 

4  Ann Cowgill b 1899, d 1899.

 

5  Jane Cowgill b 1899, d 1899.

 

6  Arthur Cowgill b 5 Aug 1906, Colne, d 1972, m 1931, Ebenezer Chapel (Skipton Rd) Closed Church, Edna Hopwood, b 21 Sep 1906, d 1990.

    Children: known are - Norma, Jack

 

5  James Cowgill b 1869, Earby, d 1909, m 20 Apr 1889, Thornton in Craven, Hannah Holgate Dickinson, b ca 1869, Thornton in Craven. James was a weaver in Earby.

Children: known are – John, Harold, Sarah, Leonard, Lizzie, Arnold

 

1  John Henry Cowgill b 1889, Earby, bur 1 Nov 1889, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven.

 

2  Harold Cowgill b 1892, Earby, d 1898.

 

3  Sarah Ann Cowgill b 1894, Earby, m 1912, Herbert Taylor.

 

4  Leonard Cowgill b 1898, Earby, d 17 Jan 1946, m 11 Apr 1922, St Mary-le-Gill, Barnoldswick, Jean Mary (Black) Waterworth, b 7 Nov 1890, widow, d 1970, dau of Richard Black.

 

5  Lizzie Cowgill b 1901, Earby, d 1901.

 

6  Arnold Cowgill b 1903, Earby, d 1906.

 

6  Elizabeth Jane Cowgill b 1873, Earby, d 1897.

 

7  Alfred Orton Cowgill b 1875, Earby, bur 2 Jan 1876, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven.

 

8  Betty Cowgill b 1877, Earby, m 1903, Albert Brierley. Betty was a domestic residing with her father in 1901.

Child: known is - Lily

 

Lily Cowgill b 1896, Earby, m 1923, St Peter's Methodist Church (Riley St), Earby, Robert Stevens, d 1949.

 

9  William "Willie" Cowgill b 1880, Earby, d 1942, m 21 Apr 1900, St Mary-le-Gill, Barnoldswick, Sarah Ann Bird, b ca 1878, Barnoldswick, dau of William Bird. Willie was in Barnoldswick in 1901 as a weaver, in Colne in 1911 as a loom overlooker.

Children: known are - Lavinia, Gladys, Henry, Arthur, Evelyn, Irene, Gerald, Ada

 

1  Lavinia Cowgill b 1905, Earby, d 1917.

 

2  Gladys Cowgill b 1906 (bapt 19 Aug 1906, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven), d 1920.

 

3  Henry Cowgill b 1909, Barnoldswick, d 1912.

 

4  Arthur Cowgill b 1910, Barnoldswick, d 1924.

 

5  Evelyn Cowgill b 1912, m 1932, Alfred Fox.

 

6  Irene Cowgill b 1913, d 1919.

 

7  Gerald Cowgill b and d 1914.

 

8  Ada Cowgill b 1916, m 1936, George Henry Davenport, b 27 Jan 1916, d 1971.

 

10 Gerald Cowgill b 1881, Earby, d 14 Mar 1934, m 30 Jul 1906, Thornton in Craven, Sarah Platt, b ca 1883, bur 26 Nov 1965, Farnworth Cem. Gerald was a hairdresser in Earby in 1911.

Children: known are – Dora, Thomas, John, Herbert

 

1  Dora Cowgill b 1907, Earby, d 1907.

 

2  Thomas Henry Cowgill b 19 Jun 1908, Earby, d 1989, m 1932, St John the Evangelist's, Farnworth & Kearsley, Sarah Sheppard, b 16 Aug 1911, d 28 Jan 1975.

 

3  John Gerald Cowgill b 1911, Earby, d 1922.

 

4  Herbert Arnold Cowgill b 25 Aug 1920, Earby, d 1999, m 1942, Mount Olivet Chapel (Wakefield Road), Stalybridge, Mary Healey Ashton.

    Children: known are - Pamela, Janette

 

2  William Cowgill b 1842, Earby, bur 30 Nov 1857, aged 15y, Thornton in Craven.

 

3  Jane Cowgill b 21 Feb 1844 (bapt 16 Feb 1845, Thornton in Craven), Earby, m 1877, Joseph Whiteoak, b ca 1827, a weaver in Earby. Jane and family were lodging with her father in 1891.

Children: known are (several Whiteoak children b after marriage) – William, Walter

 

William Cowgill b 1864, Earby, d 1934, m 4 Apr 1896, Mary Ann Walker, b ca 1875, Colne, d 1944. William is shown as William Cowgill, lodging with his grandfather in 1871 and 1881; as William Whiteoak in 1891 (with his parents at his grandfather’s residence). On the 1901 census, William Cowgill is shown living in Earby next door to his widowed aunt, Ellen, although his age is given as 54y (it is written over). William was a weaver in Earby.

Children: known are – Bertha, Jane, Herbert, Rennie

 

Bertha Cowgill b 1897, Earby

 

Jane Cowgill b 1899/1900, Earby

 

Herbert Cowgill b 27 Jul 1907, Earby, d 1993, m 1938, Norah Ann Trickett, b 7 Jan 1913, d 1988.

 

Rennie Cowgill b 19 Oct 1909, Earby, d 1977.

 

Walter Cowgill b 5 May 1871, Earby, d 1948, m 1904, Sarah Edmondson, b 1883, d 1959 (bur 10 Jun 1959). Walter shown as Walter Cowgill, lodging with his grandfather in 1881; as Walter Whiteoak in 1891 (with his parents at his grandfather’s residence); as Walter Cowgill, weaver, in Earby in 1901 and Burnley by 1911.

Children: known are - Fanny, Walter, Arthur, Alice, Cyril

 

Fanny Cowgill b 25 Mar 1905, bur 13 Apr 1907, Burnley Cem.

 

Walter Cowgill b 1908, d 1990.

 

Arthur Cowgill b 11 Feb 1917, d 1996, m 1939, Vera Cavell McNamara, b 1 Apr 1918, d 1998.

    Children: known are - Margaret, Dorothy, John

 

Alice Cowgill b 22 Dec 1918,

 

Cyril Cowgill b 12 Mar 1923, d 1985, m(1) 1950, Christ Church, Colne, Jean Mills, b ca 1929, d 27 Oct 2014; div (she remarried to ____ Green); m(2) 1968, Irenee Catterall (or Midgley?), b 8 May 1924, d 1982.

   Children: known are - Carole, Lynne

 

4  Ellen Cowgill bapt 16 Aug 1846, Thornton in Craven, m 1881, Thomas Smith, b ca 1840, d before 1901. Ellen and husband lived next door to her father and sister in Earby in 1891.

Children: known are (Ellen had a Smith dau, mistakenly shown as another Cowgill, after marriage) – Albert, Fred

 

Albert Cowgill b 1866, Earby, d 1942, m 22 Sep 1894, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Fred Cowgill by his mark, Ada Wilkinson), Elizabeth Ann Baxter, b ca 1875, bur 2 May 1963, Burnley Cem., age 88. Albert was a weaver in Earby, listed as lodging with his mother in 1901, Elizabeth with her mother (but as married).

Children: known are - John Thomas, John Henry, Sarah

 

John Thomas Cowgill b 1895, d 1895.

 

John Henry Jackson Cowgill b 1896, d 1897.

 

Sarah Ellen Cowgill b 1913, m 1937, St Catherine's, Burnley, Thomas Henry Smith.

 

Fred Cowgill b 1870, Earby, d 1931. Fred was a cotton mill worker residing with his mother in Earby in 1901, a general laborer in Colne by 1911.

 

5  John Cowgill b 1849, Earby, bur 25 Nov 1849, Thornton in Craven.

 

6  James Cowgill b 5 Apr 1851, Earby, bur 11 Jul 1872, aged 21y, Thornton in Craven.

 

2  Henry Cowgill, son of John and Jane (Wilkinson) Cowgill, b 20 Jun 1819 (bapt 13 Sep 1820, Earby Baptist Chapel), Thornton in Craven, d 23 Apr 1859, bur 28 Apr 1859, aged 39y, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven, m 5 May 1849, Thornton in Craven, Eleanor Broughton, b ca 1828, bur 28 Sep 1897, age 71y, dau of William Broughton, a mason. Henry a weaver at Stoney Bank. He is shown as a lodger with James (son of Joseph) and Ellen Cowgill on the 1841 census. Eleanor remarried 29 Apr 1865, Thornton in Craven, to John King.

Children: known are – Elizabeth, Sarah, Nanny, Mary

 

1  Elizabeth Jane Cowgill b Aug 1849 (bapt 9 Dec 1849, Thornton in Craven), Earby, d 16 Jun 1884, bur 21 Jun 1884, age 34y, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven.

 

2  Sarah Ann Cowgill b 1851, d 18 Jul 1866, bur 22 Jul 1866, age 15y, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven.

 

3  Nanny Cowgill b 5 Mar 1854 (bapt 25 Jun 1854, Thornton in Craven), Earby, d 23 Feb 1885, bur 28 Feb 1885, age 30y, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven.

 

4  Mary Ellen Cowgill b 19 Apr 1857 (bapt 2 Aug 1857, Thornton in Craven), Earby, d 10 Sep 1909, bur at St Mary’s. Mary, single, living at Stoney Bank (Earby) in 1901.

 

3  Mary Cowgill bapt 4 Aug 1822, Thornton in Craven, m 9 Jan 1842, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Jonas Cowgill, Chris Brown), John Ridihough (also as Riddehough), b ca 1821. John was a power loom weaver in Earby in 1851.

 

4  Joseph Cowgill bapt 17 Jun 1827, Thornton in Craven, d 1870, Rochdale Civil District, Lancashire (verify with death cert). Joseph was a weaver in Earby and, by 1861, in Burnley. Apparently never married. In 1841 and 1851, Joseph was lodging with his uncle, James Cowgill.

 

3  James Cowgill, son of Joseph and Jane (Hargreaves) Cowgill, b 23 Dec 1790 (bapt 1 May 1791, Thornton in Craven), bur 25 Sep 1854, aged 66y, Thornton in Craven, m 18 Jun 1833, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: John Pickles, Christopher Brown (parish clerk)), Ellen Hartley, d 1842, age 32. (Age given at bur does not match, but has to be this James). James a weaver in Earby. Apparently no family.

 

4  Joseph Cowgill b 25 Feb 1792 (bapt 9 Apr 1792, Thornton in Craven), bur 4 Oct 1844, aged 52y, Thornton in Craven (check death cert to verify). Joseph a weaver of Earby (Hill Top). On the 1841 census, Joseph shown as a lodger with his father and step-mother, Joseph and Margaret Cowgill. Apparently never married.

 

5  Thomas (“Tommy”) Cowgill b 10 Mar 1794 (bapt 20 Apr 1794, Thornton in Craven), d 1886, m 24 Aug 1823, Broughton, Elizabeth Booth, b ca 1804, Elslack, d 1887. Thomas a weaver and, later, an agricultural laborer in Elslack.

Children: known are – Joseph, Mary, Jane, Jeremiah, John

 

1  Joseph Cowgill b Earby (bapt 16 Apr 1826, Thornton in Craven), d 1902, Basford District, Nottinghamshire, m(1) 1860, St Thomas District, Devon, Elizabeth Jane Grey, b ca 1833, Cornwall, d 1876, South Molton, Devon; m(2) 1880, Basford District, Nottinghamshire, Elizabeth Newton, b ca 1843, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, d 1904. Joseph was a railroad worker, an inspector by 1874 when he lived at Proutworthy in Devon. He was in Nottinghamshire by 1881.

Children: known are – Thomas, Jane, Mary, John, Henry, Edward, Joseph, Jerry, William, Martha, Elizabeth, Susanna

 

1  Thomas Cowgill b 1861, Exeter, Devon, d 1862.

 

2  Jane Cowgill b and d 1863, Exeter, Devon.

 

3  Mary Cowgill b 1864, Exeter, Devon. Mary, as a butcher’s assistant, lodging with brother Joseph in Keighley in 1891; with brother Henry in Manchester in 1901.

 

4  John Cowgill b and d 1865, Honiton, Devon.

 

5  Henry Cowgill b 1866, Honiton, Devon, d 22 Nov 1937. Henry in Blackley (Manchester) as an agricultural laborer by 1881; a farmer there therafter. Sisters Mary and Elizabeth were lodging with him in 1901. His will lists his home as Rose Dene, Bolton Abbey.

 

6  Edward Cowgill b and d 1867, Honiton, Devon.

 

7  Joseph Cowgill b 1868, Honiton, Devon, d 27 Feb 1956 (bur 1 Mar 1956, age 87, bur St Mary's, Carleton in Craven), m 3 May 1892, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven, Mary Margaret Jane White, b 29 Dec 1869, Carleton in Craven, d 14 Dec 1950 (bur 18 Dec 1950, age 81, St Mary's). Joseph was a butcher lodging with sister Mary in Keighley in 1891; a butcher and farmer in Carleton in 1901; a butcher in Bradford by 1911.

Children: known are – John, Henry, Elizabeth, William, Charlotte

 

1  John Cowgill b 10 Jun 1893, Keighley, bur 13 Aug 1893, Carleton.

 

2  Henry Cowgill b 7 Aug 1894, Keighley, d 1956, m 4 Aug 1917, St James’, Bolton, Elsie Rhodes, b 24 Feb 1893, d 1986.

    Children: known are - Ernest, Marian

 

1  Ernest Cowgill b 1 Jun 1918, d 2002, m 1939, Eva Knight, b 24 Dec 1919, d 1988.

    Children: known are - Margaret, Barbara

 

2  Marian Cowgill b 1920, m 1939, Thomas Walton.

 

3  Elizabeth Mary Cowgill b 23 Jan 1897, Carleton, d 22 Nov 1979, m 1922, John Jagger.

 

4  William Cowgill b 26 May 1900, Carleton, d 1989, m 12 Dec 1921, St Stephen’s, Bowling, Violetta Stocks, b 3 Jun 1898, d 1990.

    Children: known are - Albert, Maurice, Marjorie

 

5  Charlotte Eleanor Cowgill b 7 Oct 1902, d 10 Apr 1909 (bur 14 Apr 1909), age 6.

 

8  Jerry Cowgill b and d 1869, Honiton, Devon.

 

9  William John Cowgill b and d 1871, Honiton, Devon.

 

10 Martha Cowgill b and d 1872, South Molton, Devon.

 

11 Elizabeth “Lizzie” Jane Cowgill bapt 25 Oct 1874, Filleigh, Devon. Not located in 1891. She was lodging with brother Henry in 1901, and was executrix of his will in 1937.

 

12 Susanna Cowgill b 1876, South Molton, Devon, m 1897, Fred Baker, a railway porter.

 

2  Mary Cowgill b ca 1832, Elslack, d 1851, Broughton. With her parents in Elslack as a dressmaker in 1851.

 

3  Jane Cowgill bapt 22 Feb 1835, Broughton (Elslack), d 1867, m 1860, as his 2nd wife, Henry Bell, b 21 Sep 1834, Thornton in Craven, d 14 Aug 1876.

    Child: known is - Mary

 

 1  Mary Bell Cowgill b 1857, Broughton, d 1859.

 

4  Jeremiah Cowgill bapt 3 Jun 1838, Broughton, d 1911, Manchester, m 7 Sep 1869, St Mary’s, Manchester, Martha Wolstenholme, b ca 1835, Greenhill, Derbyshire, d 1902, Manchester. Jeremiah was in Manchester by 1871 as a coal dealer, later also as a dairyman. His brother John was lodging with him in 1881. Jeremiah was lodging with son John Henry in 1911.

Children: known are – Elizabeth, John, Annie

 

1  Elizabeth Jane Cowgill b 1870, Hulme (Manchester), m 1900, Manchester, Joseph Smith, b ca 1843, described as a “political agent” on the 1901 census.

 

2  John Henry (Harry) Cowgill b 1872, Hulme (Manchester), d 26 Sep 1936, m 1903, Brunswick Methodist, Salford, Elizabeth Wood Crossley, b ca 1874, d 13 Mar 1952. John (Harry) was a butcher, lodging with his parents in 1901, in Chorlton upon Medlock in 1911. John (as Henry) made a short trip to America in 1896.

Children: known are – Henry, Frederick, Constance, Arthur

 

1  Henry Cowgill b 10 Aug 1905, d 1905.

 

2  Frederick Cowgill b 12 Sep 1904, Chorlton upon Medlock, d 1990.

 

3  Constance Cowgill b 15 Apr 1908, Chorlton upon Medlock, m 1930, Wesleyan Chapel, Plymouth Grove, Manchester, John P. Downes.

 

4  Arthur Cowgill b 25 Jan 1914, Chorlton upon Medlock, d 1983, m 1938, Rose Birch, b 20 Mar 1919, d 1994.

    Children: known are - Ethel, Arthur, Joan, Jean, Irene, Lilian, James, Margaret, Alan, Millicent

 

3  Annie Mary Cowgill b 1874, Hulme (Manchester), m 1901, Manchester, John Thomas Rostron.

 

5  John Cowgill bapt 3 Jun 1843, Broughton, d 1928. John was a carter in Tong in 1861; a railway guard in Bath in 1871; lodging with brother Jeremiah as a laborer in 1881; then in Elslack as a gardener and farm laborer.

 

6  Mary Cowgill (twin) b 2 Feb 1798 (bapt 10 Apr 1798, Thornton in Craven), probably the Mary Cowgill who m 4 Jan 1821, Kildwick, Henry Whiteoak, a bachelor and laborer. Mary’s first child was baptized in Thornton in Craven; she was in Carleton by 1828; in Earby by 1851.

 

7  William Cowgill (twin) b 2 Feb 1798 (bapt 10 Apr 1798, Thornton in Craven), bur 3 Mar 1886, age 91, Bradford, m 10 Feb 1823, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: James Hartley, Robert Lambert), Susannah Ridihough (Ridehough), bur 24 Feb 1846, aged 44y, Thornton in Craven. Marriage record has William of Barnoldswick; Jane’s birth record has him as a weaver of Booth Bridge (Thornton in Craven), later as Earby and Brown House (1833). William is listed as a lodger with dau Jane and family in Bradford in 1861 and thereafter.

Children: known are – Jane, Joseph, Nancy, Ann, William, John, Margaret

 

1  Jane Cowgill bapt 22 Jun 1823, Thornton in Craven, m 25 Dec 1850, St Andrew’s, Kildwick, John Watson, b ca 1813, a grocer in Bradford. Jane’s family hosted her father after the death of her mother.

 

2  Joseph Cowgill bapt 16 Jan 1825, Thornton in Craven, d 1910, m(1) 1851, Keighley, Mary Ann Overend, bur 18 Apr 1860, Sutton Baptist Chapel; m(2) 1861, Bradford, Elizabeth Thornber, b ca 1817, Slaidburn, bur 11 Jan 1886, age 68, Sutton Baptist Chapel), dau of Ralph and Alice Thornber; m(3) 1886, Ellen Simpson, b ca 1829, Burnsall, d 1899. Joseph listed as a weaver in Bradford in 1861 (next door to his father and sister), later was a baker in Cononley. Sutton Baptist Chapel has a note that Joseph of Sutton Mill was received 7 Apr 1854, and dismissed to Shipley in 1861. Note: need to verify data on children with church records.

Children: known are – Mary, Susannah, David, Margaret, unk

 

1  Mary Cowgill (twin) b 1852, Sutton Mill, bur 17 Jan 1852, Sutton Baptist Chapel.

 

2  Susannah Cowgill (twin) b 1852, Sutton Mill, bur 17 Jan 1852, Sutton Baptist Chapel.

 

3  David Cowgill b 1853, Sutton Mill, bur 26 Jan 1853, Sutton Baptist Chapel.

 

4  Margaret Cowgill b 1854, Sutton Mill, bur 16 Sep 1854, Sutton Baptist Chapel.

 

5  unknown (William?) Cowgill, bur 16 Oct 1858, Sutton Baptist Chapel.

 

3  Nancy Cowgill b ca 1829, probably the Nancy Cowgill who m in 1852 (need marriage cert to verify and identify husband).

 

4  Ann Cowgill bapt 5 Oct 1828, Thornton in Craven, d before 1841.

 

5  William Cowgill bapt 15 Sep 1833, Thornton in Craven, d 4 Apr 1912, m 12 Jul 1856, Bradford, Elizabeth Foulds, b ca 1837, Colne, d 1901. William a weaver in Windhill in Idle, Calverley Parish, in 1861, in Bradford (Saltaire) from ca 1868. Son Seth emigrated to America (see Link).

Children: known are – Thomas, Margaret, Mary Alice, Joseph, William, Mary Jane, Seth, Jesse, Susannah, Ann

 

1  Thomas Cowgill b 1856, Skipton, d 1940, m 1885, Bradford, Sarah Hardcastle, b ca 1854, Kirkburton, d 1936. Thomas was a bleacher in Great Horton in 1911. Note: the 1911 census indicates there was another child who d early.

Children: known are – Ann, Hilda

 

1  Ann Elizabeth Cowgill b 1891, Bradford, m 3 Apr 1915, St Wilfrid’s, Lidget Green, Frank Wheater, b ca 1892, a mechanic.

 

2  Hilda Cowgill b 23 Sep 1896, Bradford, d 1970, m 1917, Arthur Clemo.

 

2  Margaret Cowgill b 1858, Windhill in Idle, d before 1864.

 

3  Mary Alice Cowgill b 1861, Windhill in Idle, d 1862, Bradford.

 

4  Joseph Cowgill b 1862, d 1863.

 

5  William Cowgill b 1863, d 1863.

 

6  Mary Jane Cowgill b 1866, Windhill in Idle, m 23 Mar 1889, Bradford, Walter Smith, b ca 1865, a wool combmaker in Bradford in 1901.

 

Seth Cowgill (see link).

 

8  Jesse Cowgill b 1870, Saltaire, d 1954, m 15 Jul 1893, Bradford, Annie Bartle, b ca 1874, Clayton (Bradford), d 20 Jul 1926. Jesse was a stationary engine man in Clayton in 1911. Note: is Percy a child of Annie’s? The 1911 census states Annie had seven children, four living.

Children: known are – Percy, Cecil, John, Elsie, Mary, Albert, Arthur

 

1  Percy Cowgill b 1892 (as Bartle), Clayton

 

2  Cecil Cowgill b 1895, Clayton (Bradford), d 5 Dec 1905.

 

3  John William Cowgill b 17 Jul 1897, Clayton, d 1975, m 1920, Olive Carruthers, b 24 Jan 1900, d 1997.

    Children: known are - Mary, Douglas, Ronald

 

1  Mary Cowgill b 1923, d 1923.

 

2  Douglas Cowgill b 13 Jan 1925, d 2000, m 1947, Beryl Hancock.

    Children: known are - Andrea, Gail, Debra, Douglas, Ian

 

3  Ronald Cowgill b 1929, m 1950, Annie Bishop.

    Children: known are - Graham, John, Barry

 

4  Elsie Cowgill b 1901, Clayton, m 1922, George Feather.

 

5  Mary Cowgill b 1905, Clayton, d 16 Apr 1906, age 10m.

 

6  Albert Leslie Cowgill b 1907, Clayton, d 7 Mar 1908, age 4m.

 

7  Arthur Cowgill b 20 Feb 1911, Clayton, d 1992. This must be the Arthur Cowgill who m 1932, Bradford, Ada Clarke, d 1968, age 56.

 

9  Susannah Cowgill b 1872, Saltaire, m 3 Feb 1900, St John’s, Great Horton, John Clement Walker, b ca 1873, Islington, a quarry laborer in Bradford in 1901.

 

10  Ann Cowgill b 1875, Saltaire, m 5 Oct 1901, St John’s, Great Horton, Herbert Kershaw, b ca 1875, a wheelwright.

 

6  John Cowgill b Brown House, Thornton (bapt 31 Mar 1839, Thornton in Craven), bur 13 Mar 1917, age 78, m 4 Jun 1867, St Peter's, Bradford, Emma Raistrick, b ca 1843, Charlestown, Yorkshire, bur 7 Mar 1896, age 53. John was a mason’s laborer in Bradford (Shipley).

Children: known are – Joseph, Sam, William

 

1  Joseph Cowgill b 1868, Saltaire, d 13 Oct 1953 (bur 16 Oct 1953), m 25 Nov 1893, St Peter’s, Bradford, Annie Rooks, b ca 1873, Bradford (Shipley), bur 31 Dec 1948, age 76. Joseph was a wool sorter in Bradford (Shipley) in 1901, in Burley in Wharfedale by 1911. Note: the 1911 census indicates Annie had two other children who d early.

Children: known are – Edith, Emily, Hilda, Eva, Harold, John, William, Lily

 

1  Edith Cowgill b 1897, Saltaire, m 1930, William F. Hunt.

 

2  Emily Cowgill b 1898, Saltaire, m 14 Apr 1920, Burley, Walter Thompson, b ca 1901.

 

3  Hilda Cowgill b 1901, Shipley, d 1947, m 1923, Clifford Bellerby.

 

4  Eva Cowgill b 1904, Burley, m 1931, George R. Kenworthy. Eva may have m(2) 1957, Arthur R. Simmonds.

 

5  Harold Cowgill b 1906, Burley, bur 9 Apr 1907, St Mary the Virgin's, Burley-in-Wharfedale.

 

6  John Cowgill b 1909, Burley, bur 22 Jun 1909, age 6w, St Mary the Virgin's, Burley-in-Wharfedale.

 

7  William Henry Cowgill b 1909, Burley, bur 10 May 1909, age 10 hours, St Mary the Virgin's, Burley-in-Wharfedale.

 

8  Lily Cowgill b 1912, Burley, m 1939, Arnold Croft, b 1911, d 1952, Bradford.

 

2  Sam Raistrick Cowgill b 1872, bur 22 Dec 1872, age 6m, St John the Evangelist's, Baildon.

 

3  William Cowgill b 1878, Saltaire, d 1944, m 26 Dec 1903, St Peter's, Bradford, Margaret Firth, b 1882, d 1951, dau of Samuel Firth. William was a tin plate worker lodging with his father in 1911. He had a dau (Ivy May) of Margaret’s in his household. She is probably the Ivy May Firth b 27 Jan 1901, d 1973, who married Henry H. Stansfield in 1940.

Children: known are – John, Joseph, James, Walter, Emma, William, Clara

 

1  John Henry Cowgill b 7 Dec 1904, Saltaire, d 1989, m 1934, Evelyn Firth, b ca 1902, d 1965. Did John m(2) 1944, Lydia Goodwin?

    Children: known are - John, Ivy

 

1  John E. Cowgill b 1937, d 1937.

 

2  Ivy Cowgill b 21 Apr 1938, d 2000.

 

2  Joseph Cowgill b 5 Sep 1907, Saltaire, m 1934, Lily Whitaker, b 20 Apr 1913, d 1999.

    Children: known are - Harry, Elaine

 

3  James Cowgill b 6 May 1909, Saltaire, d 1984, m 1934, Lavinia McRoberts, b ca 1916, d 1957.

    Children: known are - James, John, David, Joseph, Kathleen, Maureen

 

4  Walter Cowgill b 5 Aug 1910, Saltaire, d 1982.

 

5  Emma Cowgill b 1912, 

 

6  William Cowgill b 1915, m 1937, Jessie Conroy, b 3 Feb 1913, d 1999. William was a woolen warp dresser lodging with his mother in 1911.

    Children: known are - William, Samuel

 

7  Clara M. Cowgill b 1918, m 1948, Maurice W. Ward.

 

7  Margaret Cowgill b 1841. With the family in 1851. No further information.

 

8  unk Cowgill b ca 1805 (records have Martha as the 3rd child of Joseph and Margaret - were there twins stillborn?).

 

9  unk Cowgill b ca 1805 (records have Martha as the 3rd child of Joseph and Margaret - were there twins stillborn?).

 

10 Martha Cowgill b 20 Jun 1806 (bapt 10 Jul 1806, Thornton in Craven), m 5 May 1825, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Benjamin Emmott, John Brown), John Pickles. John a shoemaker in Earby in 1841.

 

11 Jane (Jenny) Cowgill b 18 Jun 1808 (bapt 31 Jul 1808, Thornton in Craven), m 29 Sep 1831, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Uruina? Riley, Ellen Bailey), John Bailey. John a weaver in Hill Top (next door to mother-in-law Margaret Cowgill) in 1841.

 

12 Brian Cowgill b 5 Aug 1810 (bapt 2 Sep 1810, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven), bur 14 Dec 1850, St Mary's, aged 40y, Thornton in Craven. Brian was the "reputed father" of three children by Elizabeth "Betty" Crowther, b ca 1813, bur 3 Dec 1884, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven, unmarried. Betty was a textile worker in Earby. Note: could not locate Brian on the 1841 census.

Children: known are - John, Thomas, James

 

1  John Crowther bapt 23 Nov 1834, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven, bur 5 Jul 1869, St Mary's, m 9 Nov 1856, St Mary's, (witnesses: Alice Crowther, Thomas Crowther), Isabella Singleton, b ca 1836, d 1862 (?), dau of Robert Singleton. Baptismal record states John was the son of Betty Crowther, Brian Cowgill of Earby the reputed father. In 1841/1851, John was living with his grandparents, John and Mary Crowther, a farmer in Earby; in 1861, he was listed as a weaver in Burnley, but apparently returned to Earby soon after.

Children: known are - Mary, Robert, James

 

1  Mary Crowther b 30 Jan 1857 (bapt 12 Apr 1857, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven), d 1857.

 

2  Robert Crowther b 24 Jul 1859 (bapt 27 Nov 1859, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven), d 1929, m 1882, Elizabeth Dawson, b ca 1861. Robert lived with his grandmother Betty; then was a weaver in Nelson.

Children: known are - John, Edward, Marian, Margaret, Tom, Fred, Linton

 

1  John Dawson Crowther b 22 Jul 1883 (bapt 22 Jul 1883, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven),

 

2  Edward Crowther b 1884,

 

3  Marian (or Marion) Crowther b 1886

 

4  Margaret "Maggie" Crowther b 1888,

 

5  Tom Harry Crowther b 1890, m 1915, Zion Primitive Methodist Chapel (Scotland Rd), Nelson, Florence Ethel Shaw.

     Children: known are - Elizabeth, John

 

1  Elizabeth Crowther b 1915,

 

2  John Crowther b 1917,

 

6  Fred Crowther b 1894, m 1915 (this needs to be verified), Helen Hall.

 

7  Linton Crowther b 1897, m 1921, Central Methodist Church (Carr Rd), Nelson, Edith Hannah Halsall.

 

3  James William Crowther b 1862 (bapt 21 Aug 1862, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven), m 1887, the widow, Annie "Hannah" (Fell) Titherington, b ca 1861. James lived with his grandmother Betty; then was a cotton mill worker in Nelson.

Children: known are - John, Arthur, Harry, James, Tom

 

1  John Robert Crowther b 1887, d 1927, m 1908, Annie Campbell, b ca 1885. John was a cotton weaver in Nelson in 1911.

Child: known is - James

 

1  James Crowther b 1909, Nelson

 

2  Arthur Crowther b 1889,

 

3  Harry Crowther b 1891,

  

4  James Crowther b 1894,

  

5  Tom Crowther b 1898,

 

2  Thomas Crowther b 1838, d 1903, m 1 Jul 1865, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven, Susan Bolton, b ca 1842, d 1908, dau of John Bolton, a shopkeeper. Thomas was a mechanic in Earby.

Children: known are - Sarah, John, William, Mary

 

1  Sarah Crowther b 3 Mar 1868 (bapt 3 May 1868, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven), Earby, m 1892, Simeon White. Simeon was a boot worker in London in 1901.

 

2  John Bolton Crowther b 31 Oct 1871 (bapt 17 Dec 1871, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven), Earby, bur 26 Feb 1875, St Mary's, age 3y.

 

3  William Crowther b 16 Feb 1876 (bapt 16 Apr 1876, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven), Earby, d 1940 (need verification), m 1899, Margaret Inman, b ca 1876, d 1963, dau of John and Margaret Inman. William was a cloth salesman in Earby.

Children: known are - John, Herbert, Sarah, Thomas

 

1  John Bolton Crowther b 1900, Earby

 

2  Herbert Norris Crowther b 1902, Earby, m 1929, Doreen Falconer.

    Children: known are - Dorothy, Ian

 

3  Sarah Crowther b 1904, Earby

 

4  Thomas Crowther b 1911, Earby, m 1939 (need verification), Mary Cairns.

    Child: known is - Simon

 

4  Mary Elizabeth Crowther b 9 Apr 1878 (bapt 16 Jun 1878, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven), Earby, m 22 Jun 1916, St Mary's (witnesses: William and Ethel Crowther), Herbert Longworth, b ca 1880, son of Joseph Longworth.

 

3  James Crowther b 1841, Earby, d 1912, m 17 Feb 1866, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven, Eden Proctor, b ca 1847, d 1913, dau of Thomas Proctor, a shoemaker. James was a cotton weaver in Earby. Note: the 1911 census indicates Eden had five other children who d early.

Children: known are - John, Fred, Albert, Emanuel, Walter, Proctor, Sarah, Annie, James, Tom, Christopher

 

1  John William Crowther b 1867, Earby, d 1927, m 1895, Laura Emily Hargreaves, b ca 1876. John was a cotton mill worker in Earby. Child: known is (the 1911 census indicates Laura had three children who d early) - Harry

 

4  Harry Crowther b 1912, 

 

2  Fred Crowther b 1868, Earby, d 1911, m 1894, Florence Dickinson, b ca 1875. Fred was a cotton weaver in Earby. Note: the 1911 census indicates Florence had two other children who d early.

Children: known are - Ernest, Lillian

 

1  Ernest Crowther b 1896, Earby, m 1920 (need verification), Ethel Coates, d 1966.

    Child: known is - Ida

 

1  Ida M. Crowther b 1922, m 1944, James Taylor.

 

2  Lillian Crowther b 1903, Earby, m 1920 (need verification), John H. Brooks.

 

3  Albert Crowther b 1871, Earby, d 1931, m 1895, Isabella Utley, b ca 1876, d 1954. Albert was a stonemason laborer in Earby, later a mill worker.

Children: known are - Emanuel, Willie, Albert

 

1  Emanuel Crowther b 1896, d 1901.

 

2  William Crowther b 1897, Earby, d 1940.

 

3  Albert Crowther b 1906, Earby, m 1942 (need verification), Grace Wolfenden.

 

4  Emanuel Crowther b 1875, Earby, d 1951, m 1898, Sarah Smith, b ca 1877. Emanuel was a cotton weaver in Earby.

Child: known is - Ida

 

1  Ida Crowther b 1899, Earby

 

5  Walter Crowther b 1876, Earby, d 1946, m(1) 1897, Mary Agnes Warrinner, b ca 1878, d 1901; m(2) 1912, Alice W. Vickers. Walter was a cotton weaver in Earby.

    Children: known are - Neville, Douglas, James

 

6  Proctor Crowther b 1879, Earby, d 1893.

 

7  Sarah Elizabeth Crowther b 1881, Earby, m 1905, William Greenwood, b ca 1879.

 

8  Annie Crowther b 1883, Earby, d 1954, m 1913, Herbert Thackeray, b 1885, d 1947.

 

9  James Charles Crowther b 1885, d 1962, m 1914, Annie Bridge.

    Children: known are - Mary, George

 

10 Tom Williamson Crowther b 1886, Earby, d 1927.

 

11 Christopher Ernest Crowther b 1892, Earby

 

13 Abraham Cowgill bapt 14 Jun 1812, Thornton in Craven, bur 27 May 1898, aged 85y, Thornton in Craven, m 10 Nov 1836, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Harrison Lee, John Pickles), Ellen Pickles, bur 7 Aug 1852, aged 37y, Thornton in Craven. Abraham a farmer in Colne in 1841, a weaver in Hill Top (Earby) in 1851, and a farmer there thereafter.

Children: known are – Joseph, Margaret, Barbara

 

1  Joseph Cowgill b 16 Feb 1837 (bapt Earby Baptist Chapel), bur 30 May 1837, Thornton in Craven.

 

2  Margaret Cowgill b 1838 (bapt 15 Jan 1839, Thornton in Craven), Hill Top (Earby), bur 21 Jan 1857, aged 18y, Thornton in Craven.

 

3  Barbara Cowgill b 1842 (bapt 16 Jun 1843, Thornton in Craven), Colne, m 1860, Hartley Green, b ca 1826, Barnoldswick. Hartley was a weaver in Earby in 1861.

 

14 Jonas Cowgill bapt 10 Jul 1814, Thornton in Craven, bur 11 Jan 1882, aged 66y, Thornton in Craven, m 26 Feb 1838, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Henry and John Pickles), Elizabeth Pickles, b ca 1817, Earby, bur 16 May 1894, aged 77y, Thornton in Craven, dau of Thomas and Barbara Pickles. Jonas a cordwainer and shoemaker in Earby. Note: for some reason, Jonas is listed as “James” on the 1871 and 1881 censuses.

Children: known are – Mary, Joseph (1st), Margaret (1st), Joseph (2nd), Martha (1st), Martha (2nd), Thomas, Elizabeth, Margaret (2nd), Hannah

 

1  Mary Cowgill bapt 18 May 1838, d 21 May 1838, Thornton in Craven.

 

2  Joseph Cowgill (1st) b 1840, d 1841 (need to verify with birth/death certs).

 

3  Margaret Cowgill (1st) bapt 17 Mar 1841, Thornton in Craven, bur 5 Jul 1844, Thornton in Craven, aged 3y.

 

4  Joseph Cowgill (2nd) b 1844, d 1910, m 10 Jul 1865, St Mary-le-Gill, Barnoldswick, Jane Boydell, b 1845, Coventry, d 1921, dau of John Boydell. Joseph was a weaver, in Bradford in 1871, Earby thereafter.

Children: known are – John, Sarah, Jonas, Joseph, Thomas, Mary

 

1  John Thomas Cowgill b and d 1869, Bradford.

 

2  Sarah Elizabeth Cowgill b 1871, Bradford, bur 23 Oct 1873, aged 2y, Thornton in Craven.

 

3  Jonas Cowgill b 1874, Bradford, bur 25 Jul 1874, aged infant, Thornton in Craven.

 

4  Joseph Henry Cowgill b 1880, Earby, d 1954, m 18 Feb 1911, Thornton in Craven, Annie Elizabeth Hobbis, b 1887, d 1931. Joseph was a boot and shoe maker in 1901, later a weaver in Earby.

Children: known are – Alice, Florence, Alexander, Harry

 

1  Alice Edna Cowgill b 10 Dec 1911, Earby, m 1937, All Saints', Earby, Lloyd Clough.

 

2  Florence Cowgill b 1913

 

3  Alexander Cowgill b 1915

 

4  Harry Cowgill b 13 Jan 1925, d 1997, m 1948, St Peter's Methodist Church, Earby, Kathleen Alice Sarginson, b 22 Jan 1929, d 2001.

    Children: known are - Michael, Sandra

 

5  Thomas Cowgill b 1883, Earby, bur 17 Apr 1883, aged 9 weeks, Thornton in Craven.

 

6  Mary Alice Cowgill b 1884, Earby, m 16 Apr 1910, Thornton in Craven, Harry Holmes.

 

5  Martha Cowgill b 1846, bur 25 Apr 1849, aged 2y, Thornton in Craven (need to verify with birth/death certs).

 

6  Martha Ellen Cowgill b 1850, m 18 May 1872, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: James Bradshaw, Christiana Holmes), William Duxberry.

 

7  Thomas Williamson Cowgill b 1853, bur 21 May 1902, Thornton in Craven, aged 49y. Thomas was a shoemaker in Earby in 1901, living with his widowed sister Martha Ellen. A Burnley Express article of 24 May 1902 claimed Thomas committed suicide by cutting his throat.

 

8  Elizabeth Cowgill b 1856, bur 8 Apr 1857, aged 1y, Thornton in Craven (need to verify with birth/death certs).

 

9  Margaret Cowgill (2nd) b 1858, bur 29 Jun 1859, aged 1y, Thornton in Craven (need to verify with birth/death certs).

 

10 Hannah Cowgill b 1860, Earby, m 11 Feb 1882, Thornton in Craven, William Pawson, b ca 1860, Elslack, a bookkeeper in a cotton mill. Hannah and William were living next door to her brother Thomas in 1901.

 

15 Richard Cowgill bapt 23 Jun 1816, Thornton in Craven, bur 17 Feb 1893, aged 78y, Thornton in Craven, m 13 Feb 1843, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: William Wilkinson, William Crabtree), Mary Ann Sanderson, b ca 1821, Bolton By Bowland, bur 13 Apr 1895, aged 74y, Thornton in Craven. At marriage, Richard claimed to be aged 25. Prior to his marriage, Richard fathered three children by Ann Wilkinson, b 1817, d ca 1883. Ann never married, living in Earby as a textile worker. Richard was a weaver of Hill Top, later a butcher in Colne (1851) and Earby (by 1861). Also shown as a “beerhouse keeper” in 1871, when he owned The Red Lion Inn.

Children: known are – Elizabeth, Martha, Mary, William, Brian, James, Mary

 

1  Elizabeth Wilkinson bapt 6 Mar 1836, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven, dau of Ann Wilkinson and Richard Cowgill, “reputed father”, weaver of Earby, m 12 May 1860, St Mary-le-Gill, Barnoldswick, James Turner, b ca 1836, Barnoldswick. In 1861 James and Elizabeth were lodgers with her mother, and lived nearby later. 

 

2  Martha Wilkinson (twin) b ?? Oct 1837 (bapt 7 Aug 1853, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven), dau of Ann Wilkinson and Richard Cowgill, “reputed father”, weaver of Earby, m 29 Aug 1868, St Mary’s, Alexander Riley, b ca 1841, d 1900, son of John Riley. Martha was a widow in Earby in 1900.

 

3  Mary Wilkinson (twin) b ?? Oct 1837 (bapt 7 Aug 1853, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven), dau of Ann Wilkinson and Richard Cowgill, “reputed father”, weaver of Earby, d 1886, unmarried.

 

4  William Cowgill b 1843, Hill Top (Earby), bur 28 Apr 1845, aged 1y, Thornton in Craven. Note: need death cert to verify parentage.

 

5  Brian Cowgill b 1849, Thornton in Craven, d 25 Jan 1923, m 1870, Elizabeth Speak, b ca 1848, d 1918, dau of Henry and Margaret Speak. Brian (also as Bryan) was a weaver in Earby and Kelbrook.

Children: known are – William, Mary, Richard, James, Bertie, Lilian

 

1  William Cowgill b 17 Jan 1871 (bapt 2 Apr 1871, Thornton in Craven), Earby, d 1934, m 10 Oct 1899, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: William Edwin Barrett, Mary Ellen Cowgill), Alberta Barrett Bulcock, b ca 1872, Liverpool, d 18 Jul 1955, dau of Barrett and Elizabeth Bulcock. William was a cotton loom overlooker in Colne in 1901, in Moston (Manchester) in 1911.

Children: known are – Edna, Duella, Eric

 

1  Edna Cowgill b 1 Aug 1900, Earby, m(1) 25 Nov 1925, St Peter's, Stretford, Archibald Gerald Egginton, age 24; m(2) 1948, Bucklow, Percy Smith.

 

2  Duella Cowgill b 7 Feb 1906, Earby, m 19 Apr 1930, All Saints', Stretford, Herbert Ball, age 24.

 

3  Eric William Cowgill b 1915, d 12 Mar 1967, m 1937, Winifred M. Thomason, b 13 Apr 1912, d 23 Jan 2001.

 

2  Mary Ellen Cowgill b 23 Jan 1873 (bapt 4 May 1873, Thornton in Craven), Earby

 

3  Richard Henry Cowgill b 19 Dec 1875 (bapt 7 May 1876, Thornton in Craven), Earby, d 1931, m 9 Jan 1901, Thornton in Craven, Annie Bulcock, b ca 1866, Liverpool, d 1932. Richard was a weaver in Earby in 1901; in Bacup in 1911.

 

4  James Thomas Cowgill b 19 Dec 1877 (bapt 16 Jun 1878, Thornton in Craven), Earby, m 12 Aug 1899, St Paul's, Little Marsden, Margaret Ann Richards, b ca 1881, Pendleton, d 1959, dau of William Richards. James was a weaver in Kelbrook in 1901. James and Margaret arrived New York on 25 Dec 1909, apparently just to visit a relative in Rhode Island.

 

5  Bertie Cowgill bapt 7 Jul 1889, Thornton in Craven, d 16 Aug 1917 (bur Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 19 to 23 and 162), a casualty of World War I, m 8 Jul 1915, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: James Thomas Cowgill, William Taylor, Florence Taylor, Lillian Cowgill), Jane Taylor, b 30 Apr 1888, d 1970, dau of Robert Taylor. At marriage, Bertie was described as aged 26, weaver, son of Bryan Cowgill, gentleman. Bertie was a private in the Northumberland Fusiliers.

Child: known is – Kenneth

 

1  Kenneth Taylor Cowgill b 11 Nov 1915, Earby, d 1970, m 1940, Irene Clarke. Irene remarried 1979, Ronald Steele.

    Children: known are - Jean, Keith, Dorothy

 

6  Lilian Cowgill b 9 Oct 1895, Kelbrook, m 11 Nov 1925, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven, Clarence Ross Storey, a widower of Leeds.

 

6  James Thomas Cowgill b 1855, Thornton in Craven. James listed (at wrong age) as a butcher lodging with his parents in 1891. No further information.

 

7  Mary Jane Cowgill b 1858, Thornton in Craven. With her parents in 1881. No further information.

 

16 George Cowgill bapt 21 Jun 1818, Thornton in Craven, d 1901, m 7 Jan 1839, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Jonas Cowgill, Hartley Wilkinson), Sarah Wilkinson, b ca 1820, Earby, d 1899. George was a weaver, later a farmer of 46 or 47 acres at Marl Field (Earby).

Children: known are – Mary, Margaret, Brian, John, William, James, Martha, Charles, Thomas

 

1  Mary Cowgill b 1839, m 3 Nov 1860, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Mary Ann Ellis, Christopher Brown), Joseph Waterworth, b ca 1836, a weaver in Earby.

 

2  Margaret Cowgill b 1842, Earby, bur 1 Jul 1873, aged 30y (“of Marl Field”), Thornton in Craven.

 

3  Bryan (also as Brian) Cowgill b 1844, Earby, d 1892 (bur 5 Feb 1892, age 47), m 22 Jun 1867, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: John Cowgill, Sarah Wilkinson), Elizabeth Bailey, b ca 1845, Cross Hills (Cowling), d 1906, dau of John Bailey. Bryan was a weaver in Earby and (by 1891) Barnoldswick. Elizabeth listed as lodging with dau Sarah and family in Barnoldswick in 1901. On the 1891 census, Bryan and Elizabeth had granddau Maggie Cowgill, age 4, b Barnoldswick, living with them.

Children: known are – Alice, Sarah, Hartley, James, John, William, George

 

1  Alice Cowgill b 1868, Colne, m 1887, William Henry Hargreaves. Alice, shown as “married”, and a dau were listed as lodgers with her parents in 1891. Curiously, Alice was listed as a daughter with her grandparents on the 1871 census. She had a Maggie Cowgill, age 3, in the household where she worked as a maid, single, in 1901.

Child: known is - Maggie

 

Maggie Cowgill b 1887, Barnoldswick, m 1905, John William Burnett, b ca 1886.

 

2  Sarah Cowgill b 1872, Earby, m 1894, Thomas Thursby, b ca 1872, Barnoldswick, a “cotton overlooker” in Barnoldswick in 1901.

 

3  Hartley Cowgill b 1875, Earby, d 1959, m 1899, Burnley Civil District, Lucy Ann Richardson, b ca 1878, Blackburn, d 1964. Hartley was a butcher in Padiham in 1901, in Barnoldswick by 1911.

Child: known is – William

 

1  William Arthur Cowgill b 10 Nov 1901, d 1970, m 1935, London, Grace Elizabeth Collier, b 16 Jun 1905, d 1978.

 

4  James Cowgill (twin) b 1876, Earby, bur 12 Dec 1876, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven.

 

5  John Cowgill (twin) b 1876, Earby, bur 12 Dec 1876, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven.

 

6  William Cowgill b 1878, Earby, d 1900, m 9 Sep 1899, St Mary-le-Gill, Barnoldswick, Mary Whittaker, b ca 1880, dau of James and Elizabeth Whittaker. Mary was lodging with her parents in 1901; she remarried that year, at St Mary-le-Gill, William Moss.

 

7  George Cowgill b 1883, Earby, d 1887 (bur 9 Feb 1887, age 3).

 

4  John Cowgill b 1848, Crowbeckle (Earby), d 1939, m 9 Jan 1869, St Mary-le-Gill, Barnoldswick, Mary Ann Parkinson, b ca 1848, d 1916 (bur 15 Nov 1916, age 68), dau of John Parkinson. John was an insurance agent in Earby.

Children: known are – William (1st), Mary, Sarah, James, William (2nd), Bessie

 

1  William Cowgill (1st) b 1871, Earby, bur 26 Dec 1871, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven.

 

2  Mary Ellen Cowgill b 1872, Earby, m 1896, John Francis Gill, b ca 1872, Blackburn. Mary and husband, both weavers, were lodging with her parents in 1901.

 

3  Sarah Jane Cowgill b 1875, Earby, m 1899, John Dickinson, b ca 1875, Leeds, a clothier dealer in Earby in 1901.

 

4  James Cowgill b 1878, Earby, d 1967, m 24 Jan 1899, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: John Francis Gill, Sarah Jane Cowgill), Elizabeth Ann Mac-Roy, b ca 1876, Burnley, d 1956. James was an insurance agent in Earby.

Children: known are – Clement, Cecil, Edwin, John, Doreen

 

1  Clement Cowgill b 1 Feb 1904, Earby, d 1987, m 1944, Leeds, Doris Brayshaw, b 6 Jul 1919, d 2001.

    Children: known are - Joan, Patricia

 

2  Cecil Cowgill b 1905, Earby, d 1906.

 

3  Edwin Cowgill b 1907, Earby, d 1964, m 1932, Baptist Church Centre, Barnoldswick, Annie Jackson Rothwell, b 17 Nov 1906, d 1984.

    Child: known is - Ronald

 

1  Ronald Cowgill b 15 Dec 1935, d 2000.

 

4  John Parkinson Cowgill b 17 Mar 1909, Earby, d 1981, m(1) 1938, Mount Zion, Earby, Edna Cook, b 1908, d 1940; m(2) 1948, London, Margaret (Gregory) Brookes.

    Children: known are - Diane, Paul

 

5  Doreen Cowgill b 1914, m 1942, Thomas Gormley.

 

5  William Cowgill (2nd) b 1884, Earby, d 27 Oct 1918, in Italy, a casualty of World War I, m 1910, Amy Briggs, b ca 1886, d 1968. William was a weaver in Earby. He served as a private in the 10th Bn, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment); bur Plot 3, Row A, Grave 8, Giavera British Cem., Arcade.

Children: known are – Winifred, Phyllis

 

1  Winifred Cowgill b 1912, m 1934, Baptist Church Centre (Manchester Rd), Burnley, Wilfred Byron Lord.

 

2  Phyllis Cowgill b 1915

 

6  Bessie Cowgill b 1888, Earby. Bessie was lodging with her parents in 1911.

 

5  William Cowgill b 1851, Crowbeckle (Earby), d 4 Feb 1917, m 28 Oct 1871, Thornton in Craven, Elizabeth Emsley, b ca 1852, Tong, d 28 Mar 1924, dau of Joshua Emsley. William was a stone mason in Earby, a farmer in Elslack by 1911. On the 1901 census, William had a niece, Hilda Cowgill, age 6, b Thornton, in his household. Who was she (need birth cert)?

Children: known are – George, Isabella, Edith, William, Amy, Harry, Frederick, Maggie, Tom, Herbert, Wilfred, Lena, John

 

1  George Cowgill b 1873, d 1873, bur 3 Nov 1873, Thornton in Craven.

 

2  Isabella Cowgill b 1874, d 1876, bur 26 Nov 1876, Thornton in Craven.

 

3  Edith Sarah Cowgill b 1876, Earby, m 1900, Thomas Beck, b ca 1873, Westmorland. Thomas was a cotton mill worker in Skipton in 1901.

 

4  William Edgar Cowgill b 1877, Earby, d 8 Aug 1954, m 1920, Ada Wilson, b ca 1882, d 1952. William was a stone mason in Earby. He was a veteran of World War I, serving in the Royal Scots Regt. He was medically discharged in 1917, “a sober and honest soldier” (quoted from his discharge papers).

 

5  Amy Cowgill b 1880, Earby, m 1908, Shaw Flesher, b ca 1881.

 

6  Harry Cowgill b 1881, d 1884, bur 14 Feb 1884, Thornton in Craven, aged 2y 7m.

 

7  Frederick Cowgill b 1883, Earby, d 5 Jan 1958, m 13 May 1914, Thornton in Craven, Ethel Longworth, d 1966. In 1901 Frederick was a stone mason in Earby.

 

8  Maggie Cowgill b 1885, Earby, m 1914, Arthur Laycock.

 

9  Thomas "Tom" Harry Cowgill b 1886, Earby, d 1960, m 1920, The Good Shepherd, Tatham Fells, Ellen Grimshaw, b 31 Jul 1884, d 1979. In 1901, Thomas was listed as an agricultural worker in Ripon, a stone mason in Earby by 1911.

    Child: known is - Winifred

 

1  Winifred Mary Cowgill b 1924, m 1952, St Mary's, Kelbrook, Norman Dent.

 

10 Herbert Cowgill b 1887, Earby, d 3 Apr 1955, m 1918, Jane Anne Preston, b 29 Sep 1893, d 1972. In 1901, Herbert was listed as a cattleman working on a farm in Gisburn, with his parents in 1911.

     Children: known are - Jennie, Alan, Arthur

 

11 Wilfred Cowgill b 1889, Earby, d 1889.

 

12 Lena Cowgill b 1891, Earby, d 1892.

 

13 John Gladney Cowgill b 1896, Earby, d 1897.

 

6  James Cowgill b 1856, Crowbeckle (Earby), d 10 Sep 1939, m 1877, Mary Jane Turner, b 1857, Earby, d 1935. James was a sawyer and joiner/carpenter in Earby. His estate had him as "of Glen Farm" in Earby.

Children: known are – William, Sarah

 

1  William Cowgill b 1878, Earby, d 1957, m 1901, Mary Elizabeth Watson, b ca 1878, Nelson, Lancashire, d 5 Nov 1931, the adopted dau of Nathaniel Watson of Earby. William was a weaver in Earby.

Child: known is - Nellie

 

1  Nellie Cowgill b 1902, Earby

 

2  Sarah Cowgill b 1880, Earby, d 26 Feb 1930. Sarah was a weaver and confectioner lodging with her parents.

 

7  Martha Ann Cowgill b 1858, Crowbeckle (Earby), m 1886, Skipton Civil District, Thomas Broughton, b ca 1851. In 1891 Thomas was a cotton weaver in Earby. Their son, Bracewell Broughton, was a lodger with her parents that year.

 

8  Charles Cowgill b 1861, Earby, d 3 Apr 1909, m 1882, Mary Ann Watson, b ca 1863, Earby. Charles was a stone mason in Earby and, by 1901, also an innkeeper at Tempest Arms in Thornton in Craven. Mary Ann was an innkeeper at Pickhill Farms in Elslack in 1911.

Children: known are – Watson, George, Harrison, James, Charles, Florrie, Ada, Albert

 

1  Watson Cowgill b 1882, Earby, d 1935, m 1923, Martha Rawson, b ca 1877, d 1950.

 

2  George Cowgill b 1888, Earby, d 1920, m 1911, St Anne's, Singleton, Mary Walton.

 

3  Harrison Cowgill b 1890, Earby, d 1915.

 

4  James Cowgill b 1892, Earby, d 1950, m 1919, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven, m 20 Aug 1919, Louisa Ibbotson, b 1898. Louisa remarried 1951, William James Allen.

    Child: known is - Gladys

 

1  Gladys Mary Cowgill b 1919, m 1940, Mount Zion, Earby, John Bentley.

 

5  Charles Stanley Cowgill b 12 Aug 1894, Earby, d 1972, m(1) 2 Sep 1920, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven, Sylvia Louise Whittingham, b ca 1897, d 1946; m(2) 1948, St Mary-le-Gill's, Barnoldswick, Annie Taylor (or Pilling?).

    Children: known are - Charles, David, Brian 

 

1  Charles Edward Cowgill b 9 Sep 1921, d 1992, m 1942, St Mary-le-Gill's, Ada Dransfield, b 1922.

    Children: known are - Norma, Sylvia, Jeanette

 

2  David Cowgill b 25 Jul 1927, d 1999.

 

3  Brian Cedric Cowgill b 16 Aug 1930, d 2001, m 1949, Eileen E. Lennon.

    Children: known are - Graham, Philip, Mark

 

6  Florrie Cowgill b 1896, d 1897.

 

7  Ada Cowgill b 1898, Elslack, m 1920, John C. Tempest.

 

8  Albert Cowgill b 1 Feb 1903, Elslack, d 1997.

 

9  Thomas Cowgill b 1864, Crowbeckle (Earby), bur 6 Jul 1864, Thornton in Craven.

 

17 Hannah Cowgill bapt 25 Feb 1821, Thornton in Craven, m 13 Jul 1840, St Andrew’s, Kildwick, Thomas Turner, b ca 1817. In 1851, Thomas was a butcher in Earby.

Child: known is - Samuel

 

Samuel Cowgill b 1839, shown as Samuel Turner in 1841/1851.

 

8  Benjamin Cowgill, son of Joseph and Mary (Swire) Cowgill, b 5 May 1765 (bapt 12 May 1765, Thornton in Craven), bur 23 May 1831, age 66, Holy Trinity, Skipton. Benjamin is listed on an 1803 Muster Roll as a laborer, single, age 30-49.

 

2  Margaret Cowgill, dau of William and Elizabeth (Preston) Cowgill, bapt 18 Nov 1725, bur 10 May 1726, Thornton in Craven.

 

3  Elizabeth Cowgill bapt 3 Aug 1727, bur 6 Aug 1727, Thornton in Craven.

 

4  Sarah Cowgill bapt 21 Sep 1729, Thornton in Craven, bur 5 Feb 1729/30.

 

5  Stephen Cowgill, son of William and Mary (Ackerley) Cowgill, bapt 6 Jan 1757, Broughton Hall Catholic Church, d 11 Jun 1830, Kingsdown by Farningham (Kent), m 21 Mar 1805, St Michael Bassishaw’s, London, as her 2nd husband, Elizabeth Goddard, b 1864, d 24 Aug 1818, Kingsdown by Farningham. Stephen left a will, probated 29 Jun 1830 (Prerogative Court of Canterbury), with bequests to a long list of friends. Most assets to SL John Goddard, others to DL Elizabeth Morgan, wife of George Morgan, and to Mary (illeg), sister of my late wife. Also left sums to "the children of my late nephew William Cowgill formerly of Barnoldswick near Skipton". George and Elizabeth Morgan had a son, George Cowgill Morgan, who had children surnamed Cowgill Morgan, and grandchildren Cowgill Ascoli/Martin.

 

7  Christopher Cowgill, son of William and Margaret (Robinson) Cowgill, bapt 23 Apr 1699, Thornton in Craven, bur 7 Jan 1776, Thornton in Craven, m 25 Nov 1740, Thornton in Craven, Cristabel (also as Isabel) Smith, a widow, bur 18 Jan 1793 at Thornton in Craven, “aged 100y, pauper, widow of Parish of Carleton in Craven”. At marriage, Christopher was described as a carpenter of Thornton, Cristabel as a widow of Kelbrook. His death record has him as a carpenter of Kelbrook.

Child: known is - William

 

1  William Cowgill bapt 3 Dec 1741, Thornton in Craven, bur 16 Nov 1791, Thornton in Craven, m 22 Nov 1764, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Richard Butterfield, Mark ????), Sarah Walton, bur 16 Jun 1803, Thornton in Craven. William was described as a weaver of Kelbrook (as a farmer on his death record); later also of Earby Moorside. William is shown on tax records as a leaser of land from John Lister-Kaye from 1782 (first year available) through 1790.

Children: known are – Mary, Christopher, Joseph, William, John, Sarah, Richard

 

1  Mary Cowgill b 24 Mar 1765 (bapt 22 Sep 1765, Thornton in Craven), m 1 Jul 1802, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Robert Petty, William Duxberry), Edward Lund, a widower.

Child: known is - Henry

 

Henry Cowgill b 6 Mar 1787 (bapt 18 Mar 1787), bur 6 Jun 1787, Thornton in Craven. Henry described in the parish record as “son of John Smith & Mary Cowgill, spinster”.

 

2  Christopher Cowgill b 6 Dec 1767 (bapt 24 Jan 1768, Thornton in Craven), bur 1 Jun 1845, aged 79y, Thornton in Craven, m 9 Jan 1794, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Mary Lund, Benjamin Cowgill), Jane (“Jenny”) Berry, bur 8 Aug 1849, aged 75y, Thornton in Craven. Christopher a weaver at Stone Trough (Kelbrook). Note: Was there another child between Martha and Ann? Ann described in the Bishop’s Transcript as their 11th child.

Children: known are – William (1st), Ellen, William (2nd), Thomas, Jane (1st), Jane (2nd), Christopher, Sarah, Martha, Ann, Mary, John

 

1  William Cowgill (1st) b 3 Dec 1794 (bapt 13 Dec 1794), bur 2 Jan 1795, Thornton in Craven.

 

2  Ellen Cowgill b 28 Oct 1795 (bapt 3 Jan 1796, Thornton in Craven), probably (need verifying source) the Ellen Cowgill who m 8 Mar 1830, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Christopher Brown, William Crowther), James Green.

 

3  William Cowgill (2nd) b 3 Jun 1797 (bapt 18 Jun 1797), bur 6 Oct 1799, Thornton in Craven.

 

4  Thomas Cowgill b 14 Jan 1799 (bapt 20 Jan 1799), bur 10 Oct 1799, Thornton in Craven.

 

5  Jane Cowgill (1st) b 17 Jul 1800 (bapt 24 Aug 1800), bur 31 Mar 1802, Thornton in Craven.

 

6  Jane Cowgill (2nd) b 16 Oct 1802 (bapt 14 Nov 1802, Thornton in Craven), m 12 Jan 1824, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Henry Holmes, Henry Butterfield), Charles Hargreaves. Uncle Henry Holmes was a witness to her marriage.

 

7  Christopher Cowgill b 9 Apr 1804 (bapt 20 May 1804), bur 9 Jan 1867, aged 62y, Thornton in Craven. Christopher was a weaver in Kelbrook. He is shown lodging with sister Sarah and family in 1851/1861. Never married.

 

8  Sarah Cowgill b 29 Oct 1805 (bapt 22 Dec 1805, Thornton in Craven), m(1) 21 Dec 1830, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Christopher Brown, William Whitaker), William Green; m(2) William Brown, a tailor in Kelbrook. Sarah listed with a son in her parent’s home on the 1841 census. Brother Christopher lodged with her family 1851/1861.

 

9  Martha Cowgill b 6 Nov 1807 (bapt 27 Dec 1807, Thornton in Craven), m 11 May 1830, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Christopher Brown, Sarah Cowgill signified by an “X”), John Green, a weaver b ca 1807. Martha and sister Mary lived near each other in 1841.

 

10 Ann Cowgill b 22 Dec 1811 (bapt 26 Jan 1812, Thornton in Craven), m 12 Feb 1848, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Thomas Higson by an “X”, Christopher Brown), Michael Alleridge, son of James Alleridge. Ann claimed age 31 at marriage.

 

11 Mary Cowgill bapt 3 Apr 1814, Thornton in Craven, m 23 May 1836, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Michael Berry, C. Brown), Moses Blackburn, b ca 1807, a cotton weaver in 1841.

     Child: known is - Mary

 

Mary (later described as Mary Ann) Cowgill b ca 1831/2, m 3 Feb 1851, St Bartholomew's, Colne, William Wilkinson, b ca 1827. Marriage record states Mary dau of Moses Blackburn. In Accrington by 1850. Their dau Alice, b 15 Apr 1856, m James Keir. She d in Mattoon, IL. Her dau Isabella, b 6 May 1865, m ???? Schofield, d 1917 in Joliet, IL.

 

12 John Cowgill bapt 7 Jan 1816, Thornton in Craven, bur 13 Jul 1845, aged 29y, Thornton in Craven, m 10 Oct 1844, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: James Wilkinson, Christopher Riddehough), Jane Hartley, dau of Henry Hartley, weaver. At marriage John claimed aged 25, a weaver of Kelbrook. Jane remarried 8 Jul 1850, Thornton in Craven, Hartley Sutcliffe, a widower. One of Hartley’s daughters married Mark Cowgill (see below).

Child: known is – Christopher

 

1  Christopher Cowgill bapt 13 Jul 1845, Thornton in Craven, d early (no further references to him; not with his mother on the 1851 census)?

 

3  Joseph Cowgill b 30 Apr 1770 (bapt 20 May 1770, Thornton in Craven), bur 20 Feb 1842, aged 72y, m 14 Mar 1805, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: John Wilkinson, John Wormwell), Mary Wilkinson, a widow, bur 19 Jun 1825, Thornton in Craven, aged 68 (need death notice to verify). Joseph was a weaver in Kelbrook. He is listed on the 1803 Craven Muster Roll for Thornton as a weaver, class 1 (single, age under 30y, no children under ten years of age). No evidence of family. His niece, Alice Cowgill (dau of brother John), was lodging with him in 1841 along with her daughters Mary and Susan Cowgill.

 

4  William Cowgill b 4 Dec 1774 (bapt 8 Jan 1775), bur 3 Jul 1816, aged 41y, Thornton in Craven, m 10 Dec 1804, Holy Trinity, Skipton, Jane Haworth, b ca 1768, bur 18 Mar 1828, age 60, Holy Trinity. This must be the William Cowgill listed on the 1803 Craven Muster Roll in Skipton as a rag merchant, class 2 (unmarried, age 30-49, no children <10y), described at marriage as a laborer, “both this parish”.

 

5  John Cowgill b 20 Feb 1778 (bapt 29 Mar 1778), bur 16 Dec 1817, aged 39y, Thornton in Craven, m 7 Jan 1799, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Benjamin and Christopher Cowgill), Elizabeth Waterworth, bur 12 Apr 1818, aged 43y, Thornton in Craven. John was described as a weaver (as a farmer on Christopher’s birth record) of Kelbrook. On the 1803 Craven Muster Roll, John is listed as a weaver, class 3 (married, age 17-29, not more than two children under ten years of age).

Children: known are – Mary, William, Joseph, Sarah, John, Richard, Elizabeth, Alice, Christopher

 

1  Mary Cowgill b 15 Jul 1799 (bapt 23 Jul 1799, Thornton in Craven), m 29 Apr 1822, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: James Waterworth, Christopher Brown), James Shutt.

 

2  William Cowgill b 11 Mar 1802 (bapt 25 Jul 1802, Thornton in Craven), bur 18 Jun 1861, aged 59y, Thornton in Craven, m 6 Sep 1824, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: James Shutt?, John Waterworth), Hannah (also as Ann) Shaw, bur 11 Jun 1869, aged 67y, Thornton in Craven. William was a weaver in Kelbrook. Daughter Betty may actually be the dau of William’s sister Sarah (see below – need death cert to identify parentage).

Children: known are – Betty, James, William, Ann, Richard, Joseph

 

1  Betty Cowgill b ca 1825, bur 11 Sep 1844, aged 19y, Thornton in Craven.

 

2  James Cowgill bapt 29 Oct 1826, bur 24 Jan 1827, Thornton in Craven.

 

3  William Cowgill bapt 20 Jul 1828, Thornton in Craven. Apparently never married. In Kelbrook as a weaver and blacking manufacturer, in Earby (Stony Bank) by 1871 as a peddler, bread baker, and in 1901 as a poultry farmer. Nephew William Hartley Cowgill lodged with him from 1871.

 

4  Ann Cowgill bapt 19 Jun 1831, bur 20 Nov 1832, aged 1y Thornton in Craven.

 

5  Richard Cowgill bapt 1 Sep 1833, Thornton in Craven, bur 15 Nov 1863, aged 30y, Thornton in Craven, m 21 Oct 1854, St Mary-le-Gill, Barnoldswick, Mary Lund, b ca 1837, dau of Thomas Lund of Salterforth. Richard was a weaver in Earby. Mary remarried in 1867, St Bartholomew's, Colne, Samuel Crabtree.

Children: known are – John, William, Mary

 

1  John Thomas Cowgill b 1855 (birth cert?), d 1875 (in Skipton Civil District).

 

2  William Hartley Cowgill b 1856 (birth cert?), d 1910. Lived with his uncle, William Cowgill, after his parents’ death. Worked as a baker and poultry farmer in Earby.

 

3  Mary Ann Cowgill b 1861, Earby, m 1889, William Tomlinson, b ca 1868. William was a quarry worker in Barnoldswick in 1901.

 

6  Joseph Cowgill b 1842, d 1889, m 17 Dec 1864, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: William Gawthorpe, James Brown), Martha Hartley, b ca 1842, Cowling, d 1889, dau of John and Betty Hartley. Joseph was a warehouseman in Earby (Mill Brow), and by 1881 was in Thornton as a cloth looker.

Children: known are – Elizabeth, Sarah, Robert, Hannah

 

1  Elizabeth Ann Cowgill b 1865, d 1866.

 

2  Sarah Cowgill b 1867, Earby, m 31 May 1893, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: William Arthur Elger, Hannah Cowgill), Matthew Pickwell Thorley, b ca 1867, son of Francis Thorley.

 

3  Robert Cowgill b 1870, Earby, d 30 Jul 1938, m 17 Dec 1892, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Matthew Pickwell Thorley, Sarah Cowgill), Amelia Driver, b ca 1866, Burnley, d 28 Jul 1936, dau of Thomas and Mary Driver. Robert was a cloth looker, warehouseman, and clerk in a cotton factory in Earby; later in Nottingham.

Children: known are – Linda, Beatrice

 

1  Linda May Cowgill b 7 Nov 1894, Earby, d 1969.

 

2  Beatrice Helen Cowgill b 1898, Earby, m 1925, Nottingham, Frederick C. Green.

 

4  Hannah Cowgill b 1872, Earby, m 1898, Joseph Parker, b ca 1878, Earby, a cotton overlooker in Earby in 1901.

 

3  Joseph Cowgill b 17 Oct 1803 (bapt 15 Jan 1804, Thornton in Craven), bur 15 Apr 1840, aged 36y, Thornton in Craven, m 2 Dec 1833, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Jeremiah Holdsworth, Christopher Brown (parish clerk)), Alice Foulds, b ca 1811, d before 1861, dau of Mark Foulds, laborer. Joseph was a weaver in Kelbrook. Alice remarried 8 Aug 1846, Matthew Lund.

Children: known are – John, Mark, Elizabeth

 

1  John Cowgill bapt 11 Oct 1835, d 1847, age 12.

 

2  Mark Cowgill b 1839, bur 21 Aug 1895, St John the Evangelist's, Burnley, m 24 Jun 1861, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Christopher Brown, Eli(zabeth?) Cowgill), Mary Ann Sutcliffe, b ca 1844, dau of Hartley and Jane Sutcliffe, d 1898 (bur 24 Nov 1898, Burnley Cem.). Mark was a weaver in Nelson. Shown on the 1891 census as “married”, but no wife listed – Mary Ann had been living separately.

Children: known are – Joseph, Elizabeth, Sutcliffe, Hartley, Margaret

 

1  Joseph Cowgill b 1861, d 1861.

 

2  Elizabeth Ellen Cowgill b 1863, d 1866.

 

3  Sutcliffe Cowgill b 2 Feb 1866 (bapt 13 Sep 1868, Christ Church, Colne), Kelbrook, d 27 Mar 1939, m 1889, Burnley, Sarah Jane Rycroft, b 1868, Nelson, d 1948. Sutcliffe and Sarah Jane were weavers in Nelson.

 

4  Hartley Cowgill b 22 Jul 1867 (bapt 13 Sep 1868, Christ Church, Colne), Nelson, Lancashire, d 1922, m 22 Dec 1894, St John the Evangelist's, Great Marsden, Rosanna Rainford, b ca 1877, Crawshowbooth, Lancashire, d 1949. Hartley was a weaver in Nelson. Rosanna remarried 1941, John Crawford. Note: this may be the wrong Hartley; see note under Hartley, son of Thomas.

Children: known are – Ada, Albert, Sarah

 

1  Ada Cowgill b 1896, Nelson, m 1923, St John the Evangelist's, Great Marsden, James Willie Cowgill, b 1898, son of James and Eda Cowgill. See entry for James Willie for family.

 

2  Albert Cowgill b 1897, Nelson, d 1910.

 

3  Sarah Ellen Cowgill b 1900, Nelson, m 1924, St John the Evangelist's, Great Marsden, Ernest John Davidson.

 

5  Margaret Jane Cowgill b 31 Mar 1870 (bapt 21 May 1871, Christ Church), Colne, d 1875.

 

3  Elizabeth “Betty” Cowgill b ca 1839, d 1893 (need to verify with death cert). Betty had her step-brother, Hartley Lund, lodging with her in 1871/1881, and her half-brother, Robert Cowgill, with her in 1881/1891. She was a weaver in Kelbrook.

Child: known is - John

 

John Cowgill (son of William Berry per marriage cert) b 1872, Kelbrook, bur 11 May 1940, age 68, m 16 Dec 1899, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven, Harriet Ann Whittam, b ca 1879, Worsthorne, Lancashire, dau of Cornelius Whittam. John was a weaver in Kelbrook.

Child: known is - Frank

 

Frank Cowgill b 12 Sep 1900, Kelbrook, d 1977, m 1924, Mary Ellen Ward, b ca 1898, d 1955.

    Children: known are - John, David

 

Robert Cowgill b Kelbrook (bapt 8 Aug 1846, Thornton in Craven), d 1912 (bur 11 Mar 1912, Burnley Cem.). Robert was a son of Alice Cowgill and Matthew Lund, whom she subsequently married. Robert, single, was a weaver in Kelbrook in 1901.

 

4  Sarah Cowgill b 15 Apr 1806 (bapt 13 Jul 1806, Thornton in Craven), m 9 Aug (Oct?) 1832, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: William Brown, Christopher Brown, Joseph Cowgill by an “X”), John Brown, b ca 1811. In 1841 Henry was a weaver in Kelbrook.

Children: thought to include – Betty, Alice

 

Betty Cowgill bapt 31 Jul 1825, Thornton in Craven, “illegitimate dau of Richard Lund & Sarah Cowgill”. No further information on Betty – not with either parent on the 1841 census (or is she the Betty Cowgill lodging with Sarah’s brother William in 1841? See above.).

 

Alice Cowgill b ca 1830 (need birth/baptism record), m 16 Oct 1858, Henry Lund, b ca 1831. Marriage record states Alice was a dau of John Brown, weaver. She was living (as Alice Brown) with her parents in 1841; with a Brown family in Keighley in 1851 as Alice Cowgill. Henry was a weaver in Kelbrook in 1861.

 

5  John Cowgill b 29 Mar 1808 (bapt 1 May 1808, Thornton in Craven), Kelbrook, d 1854, age 42 (death cert, which disagrees with age on census), m 9 Feb 1836, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Joseph Turner, William Brown), Sarah Hartley, d 1855, age 55 (death cert, which disagrees with age on census).

Children: known are – Margaret, Jane, Robert

 

1  Margaret Stephenson b ca 1834, Lancaster, m 3 Dec 1855, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven, William Edmondson, b ca 1833, d 1859/60, son of Joseph Edmondson. Margaret is shown as the dau of John Cowgill on her marriage record. She is listed as a “relative” of John’s on the 1851 census.

 

2  Jane Cowgill, b ca 1837. Jane, described as a “niece” (through the Hartley line) and “pauper”, was lodging with Martha (Cowgill) Hartley and family in 1861. This is probably the Jane Cowgill who d 1870 (need death cert to verify).

 

3  Robert Cowgill b 1844, d 1889 (bur 7 Dec 1889, Burnley Cem.), m 1863, Burnley Civil District, Alice Baldwin, b ca 1847, Blacko. Robert listed as a lodger with Hartley Hartley and family in Burnley, Lancashire (1861). Hartley was a lodger with Robert’s parents in 1851. Robert was a weaver in Habergham Eaves. Alice remarried in 1900 to John Jackson.

Children: known are – James, Wilfred, John, Benjamin, Sarah, Margaret, Mary, Martha, Beatrice, Robert

 

1  James Cowgill b 1867, Burnley, d 1921, m 18 Oct 1890, St Peter’s, Burnley, Sarah Elizabeth Entwistle, b ca 1871, Newchurch, d 1919, dau of William Entwistle. James was a cotton weaver in Burnley, in Kelbrook by 1901, and back in Burnley by 1911.

Children: known are – Wilfred, Sarah, Joseph, Robert

 

1  Wilfred Cowgill b 26 Mar 1891, Burnley, d 1972, m 1923, Wales, Rachel Thomas, b ca 1888, d 1955.

    Children: known are - Donald, Adelaide

 

1  Donald Cowgill b 1 Feb 1924, d 1997.

 

2  Adelaide Cowgill b 1925, Wales, m 1946, William G. Griffiths.

 

2  Sarah Alice Cowgill b 1893, Brownside (Burnley), d 1938, m 1913, Alfred G. Jessop.

 

3  Joseph Cowgill b 1897, Kelbrook, d 1950, m 1927, Elizabeth Sharples, b 5 Oct 1907, d 1990.

    Children: known are - Joseph, Thomas, Christine

 

4  Robert Cowgill b 1900, Kelbrook, d 25 Jul 1946 (bur 29 Jul 1946, Burnley Cem), m 1921, Burnley, Alice Robinson, b 2 Aug 1899, d 1986. This is probably the Robert Cowgill, age 19, who was discharged for deafness in Sep 1919 while serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, during World War I. Alice remarried 1947, Wilfred Hewitson.

    Children: known are - unknown (stillborn), Dorothy, Roy

 

2  Wilfred Cowgill b 1869, Burnley, d 1882 (bur 23 Oct 1882, Burnley Cem.).

 

3  John William Cowgill b 6 Sep 1871, Burnley, d 1920, m 16 Feb 1895, St Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, Burnley, Mary Ellen Kendal, b ca 1871, d 1897 (bur 29 Sep 1897, Burnley Cem.). John was a weaver, lodging with his mother and step-father in 1901. Not located in 1911.

Children: known are - two stillborns
 

1  unknown Cowgill, stillborn child bur 8 Aug 1895, Burnley Cem.

 

2  unknown Cowgill, stillborn child bur 20 Sep 1897, Burnley Cem.

 

4  Benjamin Cowgill b 1872, Burnley, d 1933, m 1907, St Alban’s (St Paul's), Elizabeth Metcalf (nee Greenwood), bur 18 Mar 1953, age 80, Burnley Cem. Benjamin was a weaver, lodging with his mother and step-father in 1901.

Children: known are - Alice, Beatrice, Elizabeth, Willie, Robert

 

1  Alice Cowgill b 1908, bur 15 Jun 1922, Burnley Cem.

 

2  Beatrice Cowgill b 1909, bur 20 Jan 1912, Burnley Cem.

 

3  Elizabeth May Cowgill b 1912, m 4 Sep 1937, St Stephen's, Burnley, George Barker, age 27.

 

4  Willie Cowgill b 1913, d 1959 (bur 22 Jun 1959, Burnley Cem, age 45), m 5 Jul 1941, St Matthew the Apostle's, Habergham Eaves, Annie Higson, b 3 Apr 1911, d 1997.

    Child: known is - Barbara

 

5  Robert Cowgill b 1916, d 1960.

 

5  Sarah Jane Cowgill b 1874, Burnley, m 17 Oct 1896, St Paul's, Burnley, Henry Kearns, b ca 1874, son of Henry Kearns.

 

6  Margaret Alice Cowgill b 1877, Burnley, m 11 Apr 1898, Burnley, Francis Foster, b ca 1875, Burnley.

 

7  Mary Ellen Hartley Cowgill b 1880, Burnley, m 1901, Burnley, Thomas Howarth, b ca 1879, Burnley. Living with Mary Ellen’s mother and step-father in 1901.

 

8  Martha Cowgill b 1881, Burnley, m 1908, St Alban’s (St Paul's), Christopher Harker. Martha was lodging with her mother and step-father in 1901.

 

9  Beatrice Cowgill b 1885, Burnley, d 1894 (bur 17 Apr 1894, Burnley Cem.).

 

10 Robert Cowgill b 1886, Burnley, d 1887, age 5m (bur 8 Apr 1887, Burnley Cem.).

 

6  Richard Cowgill b 17 Jun 1810 (bapt 16 Sep 1810), bur 17 Jun 1811, Thornton in Craven.

 

7  Elizabeth Cowgill bapt 31 May 1812, Thornton in Craven, possibly the Elizabeth Cowgill who m 5 Dec 1836, Thornton in Craven, William Brown. No further information.

 

8  Alice Cowgill bapt 5 Feb 1815, Thornton in Craven, m(1) 9 Aug 1841, St Mary's, Thornton in Craven, a widower, John Harrison, b ca 1802, d 1840s; m(2) 1846, Benjamin Whitaker, b ca 1801, Colne. In 1851 Benjamin was a weaver in Colne. Alice and children were lodging with her uncle Joseph in 1841.

Children: known are – Mary, Susan

 

Mary Cowgill b ca 1836, Kelbrook, m 25 Dec 1852, St John the Evangelist’s, Great Marsden, James Hartley, b ca 1832. James was in Marsden in 1861. Mary's marriage cert lists her father as Benjamin Whitaker.

 

Susan Cowgill b ca 1837, Kelbrook, m 4 Nov 1854, St John the Evangelist’s, Great Marsden, Albion Simpson, b ca 1835. Albion was in Colne in 1861. Her marriage cert lists Benjamin Whittaker as father.

 

9  Christopher Cowgill bapt 6 Feb 1818, bur 8 Feb 1818, Thornton in Craven.

 

6  Sally (Sarah) Cowgill, dau of William and Sarah (Walton) Cowgill, b 29 Jan 1781 (bapt 4 Mar 1781, Thornton in Craven), m 18 Nov (also as 9 Oct) 1806, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Reuben Wilkinson, Paul Wilkinson, William England), Henry Holmes.

 

7  Richard Cowgill b 27 May 1784 (bapt 13 Jun 1784, Thornton in Craven), d 1864, age 81, m 7 Jan 1806, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: William Saggar, Robert Lambert), Sarah Pickles, b ca 1785, d 1865, age 81. Richard a weaver of Kelbrook; listed on an 1803 Muster Roll as a weaver, single, aged under 30. Note: Was there another, early, child? Bishop’s Transcript lists Mary as child 2, Ann as 3.

Children: known are – Mary, Ann, Sarah, William, Ellen, John, Thomas, Martha, Parthenia, Urania

 

1  Mary Cowgill b 26 Mar 1807 (bapt 22 May 1807, Thornton in Craven), m 23 Feb 1830, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: John Berry by his “X”, Christopher Brown), Ambrose Walton, a weaver of Kelbrook.

 

2  Ann Cowgill b 29 Jan 1809 (bapt 9 Apr 1809, Thornton in Craven), m 30 Apr 1832, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: James Crabtree, Christopher Brown), Mark Foulds.

 

3  Sarah Cowgill b 23 Dec 1811 (bapt 26 Jan 1812, Thornton in Craven), m 16 Mar 1840, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: William Wilkinson by an “X”, Christopher Brown), Joseph Wilkinson. At marriage, Sarah claimed to be aged 27, dau of Richard Cowgill, weaver.

Child: suspected is (probably others after marriage) – Levi

 

Levi Cowgill b 5 Jun 1834, Earby Baptist Chapel, "son of Sarah Cowgill", d 1890, m 23 Apr 1855, Thornton in Craven, Ann Berry, b ca 1834, Salterforth, d 1887. Levi was lodging with his aunt Ann Foulds in Trawden, Lancashire, in 1851; in Kelbrook as a weaver by his marriage date; as a quarry man by 1871; and as an agricultural laborer by 1881. Son Richard is known to have emigrated to America (see link).

Children: known are – William, Thomas, George, Isabella, John, Richard, Jane

 

William Cowgill b 1855, d 1881, m 1877, St James’, Accrington, Maria Briden, b ca 1854, dau of Matthew Briden. Maria remarried 24 Dec 1881 at St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven, to Thomas Pickles.

 

Thomas Cowgill b 1859, bur 21 Oct 1924, age 64y, Holy Trinity, Cowling, m(1) 14 Mar 1881, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven, Elizabeth Ellen Wilkinson, b ca 1861, d 1884, dau of Hargreaves and Jane Wilkinson; m(2) 1887, Burnley, Sarah Snowden, b 14 May 1860, Cowling, bur 6 Apr 1911, age 50y, Holy Trinity, Cowling, dau of John and Martha Snowden and sister to Viscount Snowden. Thomas was a cotton loom overlooker in Nelson. He was living next door to brother Richard and family in 1891.

Children: known are – Lily, Philip, Maude, Blanche, Cedric, Harry

 

Lily Cowgill b 1881, Kelbrook, d 25 Nov 1954, spinster, age 73, of 17 Main St, Kelbrook, m 1923, St Peter's Methodist Church, Robert Stevens. Lily was a cotton winder lodging with her grandmother, Jane Wilkinson, in Kelbrook in 1891/1901, a domestic in Kelbrook in 1911.

 

Philip Snowden Cowgill b 1888, Nelson, d 4 Jul 1956, m(1) 8 Sep 1919, Victoria, Victoria May Best; div 1927; m(2) Louise Maude ___, d 19 Apr 1959, age 73, dau of John and Louise (Turner) Landt. Philip is shown as a farm hand in the Canterbury region of New Zealand between 1914 and 1918; he settled in Victoria, Australia by 1919 (probably the P Cowgill who arrived Sydney 14 Jan 1918 aboard the Karoola). He is listed as postmaster in Cororooke by 1931.

    Child: known is - Cedric

 

3  Maude Martha Ann Cowgill b 1889, Nelson, d 27 May 1979, m 1920, Surrey, Richard A. Warnmer.

 

4  Blanche Cowgill b 1891, d 1891.

 

5  Cedric William John Cowgill b 1892, Nelson, d 24 Aug 1916 (bur Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 12 A and 12 D), a casualty of World War I. Cedric was a private in the 5th Bn, King's Shropshire Light Infantry.

 

6  Harry Cowgill b 1893, d 1894 (bur 2 Jan 1895, aged 14m, at Cowling Anglican Parish Church in Cowling near Keighley).

 

George Cowgill b 1861, d 1869.

 

Isabella Cowgill b 1863, m 1887, James Smith, b ca 1857. They were in Little Marsden in 1901.

 

John Cowgill b and d 1867.

 

6  Richard Cowgill (see link).

 

Jane Cowgill b 1870, d 1871.

 

4  William Cowgill bapt 23 Oct 1814, Thornton in Craven, d 1848 (death cert has age 32), m 1 Jan 1838, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Joseph Wilkinson by his “X”, Christopher Brown), Mary Hartley, b ca 1820, illegitimate dau of Thomas Hartley, weaver. William a weaver of Kelbrook. Mary remarried 6 Jan 1849, Thornton in Craven, Abraham Holdsworth.

Children: known are – Ellen, Sarah, son, Thomas, Jane

 

1  Ellen Hartley b 1838, m 9 Feb 1861, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven, John Sutcliffe, b ca 1840, son of Hartley Sutcliffe. John was a weaver in Kelbrook. Ellen is shown as Ellen Cowgill on the 1841 census; as Ellen Hartley in 1851; and as Ellen Hartley, dau of William Cowgill on her marriage record.

 

2  Sarah Ann Cowgill b 1839, m 25 Dec 1860, Thornton in Craven, John Pickles. Sarah is shown on the 1851 census as lodging with “relatives”, her mother and step-father, Abraham and Mary Holdsworth.

 

3  son (unnamed) Cowgill b and d 1841.

 

4  Thomas Cowgill b 1842, d 1845.

 

5  Jane Cowgill b 1845, d 1845 (need birth or death cert to verify).

 

5  Ellen Cowgill bapt 23 Feb 1817, Thornton in Craven, d 1892. Ellen shown as a housekeeper in Kelbrook in 1871, sister Urania lodging with her, as a charwoman thereafter. Never married.

Children: probably include - Eli, Martha

 

Eli Cowgill (twin?) b 1841, d 17 Sep 1906, m 1 Feb 1868, Mary Hartley, b ca 1843, d 20 Feb 1919. Marriage entry shows William Hartley as the father (need marriage cert to confirm mother). Eli was a weaver and substitute postman in Kelbrook.

 

Martha Cowgill (twin?) b 1841, d 1841.

 

6  John Cowgill bapt 27 Feb 1820, Thornton in Craven, d 1893, m 6 Sep 1847, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: John Wilkinson, Abraham Sunderland), Hannah Berry, b ca 1825, d 1892. John a weaver of Kelbrook, a farmer by 1881.

Children: known are – Parthenia, Richard, Sarah, Eli

 

1  Parthenia Cowgill b 1849, d 1851.

 

2  Richard Cowgill b 1852, d 1927, m 4 Apr 1874, St Mary’s, Thornton in Craven, Rebecca Webster, b ca 1854, d 1916, dau of Thomas Webster. Richard was a weaver in Kelbrook.

Children: known are – Maretta, John, Lizzie, Francis, Allan

 

1  Maretta Cowgill b 1875, d 1879.

 

2  John Thomas Cowgill b 1879, Kelbrook, d 1905.

 

3  Lizzie Cowgill b 1883, Kelbrook

 

4  Francis Handal Cowgill b 1886, Kelbrook, d 1891.

 

5  Allan Ewart Cowgill b 1895, Kelbrook, d 1895.

 

3  Sarah Ann Cowgill b 1854, m 1876, Thomas Proctor, b ca 1855. Sarah and Thomas were in Bolton By Bowland by 1881, when her father was listed with them. Sarah a widow with four children in 1901.

 

4  Eli Cowgill b 1860, Kelbrook, d 27 Mar 1938, m 1909, Maretta Crabtree, b 1876, d 1950. A cotton overlooker, single, lodging with his parents in 1891 (not located on the 1901 census). On 27 Apr 1907 Eli arrived in New York aboard the Lucania, en route to Brantford, Ontario, Canada. His contact there was declared to be a cousin G. Whitaker. Eli had been a coloured goods manufacturer at Colne, but later returned to Kelbrook.

 

7  Thomas Cowgill bapt 14 Aug 1822, Thornton in Craven, d 1906, m 9 Mar 1846, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Martha Edmonson by her mark, Christopher Brown), as her 2nd husband, Margaret Holmes, b ca 1827, Kelbrook, d 1904. Thomas a weaver in Kelbrook (1851); a carter at Dotcliffe Cottage, Kelbrook, in 1861; a waterworks laborer in Nelson, Lancashire, in 1871; then back in Kelbrook by 1881 as a general laborer and farmer. Note: Thomas had Alice Holmes, a dau of Margaret’s from her 1st marriage, living with him. He may have adopted her as she is shown later as Alice Cowgill, but m 1870, as Alice Holmes, Charles Duerden. Her dau, Susannah, was lodging with Thomas and Margaret in 1881. Alice and Charles had a son, Richard Cowgill Duerden, b 1874.

Children: known are – Sarah, William, Richard, Ellen, John, Harry, Thomas

 

1  Sarah Cowgill b 1847, Kelbrook, d 1917. A weaver, single, lodging with her parents in 1901, in Barnoldswick at her daughter’s in 1911.

Child: known is - Pethana

 

Pethana Cowgill b ca 1876, Nelson, m 31 Jan 1903, Thornton in Craven, William Lynn, b ca 1880.

 

2  William Cowgill b 1849, Kelbrook, d 1921, m 27 May 1871, St Bartholomew’s, Colne, Sarah Jane Booth, b ca 1851, d 1938, dau of James Read of Nelson. William was a weaver in Nelson. William shown as a lodger with son John in 1911, while Sarah Jane (as “widow”) and children are shown in a separate dwelling. The census indicates one other child.

Children: known are – John, Richard, William, James, Margaret, Harry, Robert, Annie

 

1  John Thomas Cowgill b 8 Nov 1871, Nelson, d 1944, m 1897, Burnley Civil District, Mary Alice Cordingley, b ca 1876, Idle, Yorkshire, d 1949. John was a weaver in Nelson.

Children: known are – Edith, Frances, William

 

1  Edith Annie Cowgill b 14 Jul 1897, Nelson, m 1924, St Paul's, Little Marsden, John Haydock.

 

2  Frances Cowgill b 1 Aug 1899, Nelson, m 1946, Albert Whittaker.

 

3  William Cowgill b 28 Oct 1902, Nelson

 

2  Richard Cowgill b 1875, Nelson, d 1951, m 13 Feb 1900, St Paul's, Little Marsden, Eda Moore, b ca 1876, Oldham, Lancashire, d 1951, dau of James Moore. Richard was a weaver in Nelson.

 

3  William Cowgill b 28 Dec 1876, Nelson, d 11 May 1917 (killed in action), m 1902, St Paul’s, Little Marsden, Sarah Turner, b ca 1880, d 1941. William was a weaver in Nelson. He served in France as a private, 1st Bn, East Lancashire Regiment. Bur Canadian Cem. No. 2, Neuville-St Vaast, plot 18 F 24.

Children: known are – William, Ethel

 

1  William Cowgill b 29 Apr 1906, Nelson, d 1981, m 1946, Maggie (Hazlehurst) Crook, b 1904, d 6 Jan 1983, age 78.

    Child: known is - Christine

 

2  Ethel Cowgill b 25 Mar 1911, Nelson, d 1985.

 

4  James Cowgill b 22 Jun 1879, Nelson, d 1881.

 

5  Margaret Cowgill b 1882, Nelson, m 1904, St Paul’s, Little Marsden, John Cyril Whitaker, b ca 1883.

 

6  Harry Cowgill b 1884, Nelson, d 1965, m 1939, Methodist Chapel (Temple St), Nelson, Maggie Baldwin, b 1893/4, d 1951. Harry was a weaver in Nelson.

 

7  Robert Cowgill b 1886, Nelson, d 1942. Robert was a weaver in Nelson.

 

8  Annie Cowgill b 1889, Nelson, m 1915, St Paul’s, Little Marsden, William Walton. Annie was a weaver in Nelson.

 

3  Richard Cowgill b 1851, Kelbrook, d 1872, Nelson, Lancashire.

 

4  Ellen Cowgill b 1855, Kelbrook, d 1857.

 

5  John Cowgill b 1860, Kelbrook, d 1862, age 2.

 

6  Harry Cowgill b 1865, Marsden, Lancashire, d 10 Jan 1938, m 1892, Elizabeth Eddison, b 1869, Barnoldswick, d 1935, dau of James and Naomi Eddison. Harry was a cotton weaver in Barnoldswick. Note: The 1911 census lists sons Thomas and Tom as aged 1, although Elizabeth is shown as having two children deceased.

Children: known are - Alice, Thomas, Tom, Harry

 

1  Alice Cowgill b 1895, Barnoldswick, m 20 Dec 1919, St Mary-le-Gill's, Barnoldswick, Walter Horsley, b ca 1894, son of Thomas Horsley.

 

2  Thomas Cowgill b 1905, Barnoldswick, d 1907.

 

3  Tom Cowgill b 1907, Barnoldswick, d 1908.

 

4  Harry Cowgill b 1 Apr 1911, Barnoldswick, d 1976, m 1935, Elizabeth Alice Smith, b 9 Oct 1913, d 1983.

 

7  Tom Cowgill b 1870, Nelson, d there in 1871.

 

8  Martha Cowgill bapt 23 Oct 1825, Thornton in Craven, m 6 Jun 1853, Thornton in Craven (witnesses: Thomas Cowgill by his mark, Shadraih Townend), John Hartley. Niece Jane Cowgill (through the Hartleys), dau of John Cowgill (son of John), was lodging with her in 1861 as a “pauper”.

 

9  Parthenia Cowgill bapt 4 Jul 1830, bur 29 Nov 1832, aged 2y. Thornton in Craven.

 

10 Urania Cowgill bapt 29 Mar 1835, Thornton in Craven, m 1875, name unknown.

 

5  Margaret (Margrett) Cowgill, dau of Ambrose and Grace Cowgill, b 2 Nov 1653 (bapt 9 Nov 1653, St Mary’s, Carleton in Craven), bur 17 Jan 1718/1719 (spinster).

 



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