Jonathan Cowgill b ca 1768, bur 14 Mar 1827 (bur record has Coldwell), St Peter’s, Huddersfield, age 59. The Bury and Norwich Post of 21 Mar 1827 has a death notice: “Mr Cowgill, butcher, of Huddersfield. He retired to rest in good health, and was found dead in bed next morning." Jonathan is shown as fathering three children in Huddersfield with Martha Catton. Is she the Martha Cowgill bur 7 Dec 1829, aged 65, St Peter’s, Huddersfield? Note: need dna on someone in this line to confirm if Cowgills.

Children: known are – Eliza, Thomas, Sarah

 

1  Eliza Cowgill b 24 Jul 1807 (bapt 9 Aug 1807 as “reputed child” of Jonathan Cowgill and Martha Catton), Huddersfield. Is she the Elizabeth Catton, age 18, bur at St Peter’s 2 Mar 1825?

 

2  Thomas Cowgill b 9 Sep 1808 (bapt 9 Oct 1808, Huddersfield, as “reputed child” of Jonathan Cowgill and Martha Catton), d 1870, m 1841, Huddersfield, Mary Starkey Gibson, b ca 1816, bur 6 Apr 1886. Thomas was a butcher in Huddersfield. On the 1841 census he is shown lodging with Thomas and Sarah Clifford, ages 35/30, innkeeper, his sister’s family. Dau Martha and family were lodgers in 1881.

Children: known are – Jonathan, William, Benjamin, John, Martha, George

 

1  Jonathan Cowgill b 30 May 1842, Huddersfield, d 1896, m 1865, Huddersfield, Sarah Ransley, b ca 1844, d 1904, Saddleworth. By 1871, Jonathan was a butcher in Huddersfield.

Children: known are – Mary, Herbert, Ada, Mary, Arthur, John

 

1  Mary Ann Cowgill b 23 May 1866 (bapt 1 Nov 1868, Highfield By Huddersfield Independent Church), Huddersfield, m 1892, St Chad’s, Saddleworth, James Schofield, b ca 1866. On the 1891 census, Mary Ann is listed as a lodger with her aunt and uncle, Joseph and Louisa Caven, in Saddleworth. In 1901, James was a railway shunter in Saddleworth; his mother-in-law, Sarah Cowgill, was a lodger.

 

2  Herbert Cowgill b 14 Jun 1867 (bapt 1 Nov 1868, Highfield By Huddersfield Independent Church), Huddersfield, d 1895.

 

3  Ada Cowgill b 21 Sep 1868 (bapt 1 Nov 1868, Highfield By Huddersfield Independent Church), d 1895.

 

4  Arthur Cowgill b 27 Sep 1872, Huddersfield, d 5 May 1873.

 

5  John Cowgill b 26 Jul 1876, Huddersfield, d 1882.

 

2  William Cowgill b 1845, Huddersfield, d 8 Dec 1900 (bur 11 Dec 1900, age 55, of Paddock), m 25 Dec 1879, The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Huddersfield, Annie Eliza Sheard, b ca 1844. By 1881 (he is unlocated in 1871) William was a butcher in Huddersfield. Annie remarried, 1902, James Crowther.

 

3  Benjamin Cowgill b 1847, Huddersfield, bur 27 Nov 1889, age 42, Lockwood Emmanuel Church, Huddersfield, m 9 Mar 1874, St Thomas’, Huddersfield, Ann Maria Watson, b ca 1855, Huddersfield, d 1901. Benjamin was a butcher in Huddersfield. In 1891, brother-in-law George and family were lodging with Ann and family in Lockwood, Almondbury. Ann remarried in 1891 to Edward Benson Dent. Son John Arthur emigrated to America (see link).

Children: known are – Tom, Florence, Emily, Ann, Jonathan, John Arthur

 

1  Tom Cowgill b 20 Feb 1876, Knottingley (Pontefract), d 1945, m 20 Sep 1902, Huddersfield, Mary Ann Hirst, b ca 1873, d 1934. Tom was a hotel cellerman in Huddersfield in 1911.

Children: known are – May, Bertha

 

1  May Cowgill b 9 May 1904, Huddersfield, d 1977.

 

2  Bertha Cowgill b 1907, Huddersfield, m 1937, Tom Brook.

 

2  Florence Cowgill b 24 Dec 1878, Huddersfield, m 8 Jan 1900, Huddersfield, Arthur Owen, b ca 1877. Arthur was a railway engine stoker in Huddersfield in 1901.

 

3  Emily Cowgill b 28 Nov 1879, Huddersfield, m(1) 1903, James Gosling Stott; m(2) 29 Jun 1918, Christchurch, Woodhouse (Huddersfield), George Ernest Jones.

 

4  Bertha Cowgill b 13 Jan 1882, Huddersfield, d 1882.

 

5  Ann Cowgill b 2 Sep 1883, Huddersfield, m 14 Dec 1903, All Hallows’, Almondbury, Peter Gillon, b ca 1883.

 

6  Jonathan Cowgill b 1885, Huddersfield, d 1937. Jonathan was a goods porter in Huddersfield in 1911.

 

7  John Arthur Cowgill (see link).

 

4  John Cowgill b 1850, Huddersfield, d 1886, m 1872, Huddersfield, Caroline Dyson, b ca 1854. By 1881 (he is unlocated in 1871) John was a butcher in Huddersfield. Caroline remarried in 1891 to Charles Jones.

Children: known are – Lucy, Annie, Fanny, Laura

 

1  Lucy Cowgill b 11 Sep 1873, Huddersfield, m 1892, Huddersfield, Joseph Robinson, b ca 1872. In 1901 Joseph was a plasterer in Huddersfield.

 

2  Annie Cowgill b 13 Sep 1875, Huddersfield, d 1947.

 

3  Fanny Cowgill b 24 May 1878, Huddersfield, m 25 Jun 1902, St Peter’s, Huddersfield, Charles Edwin Walker, b ca 1875, a warehouseman.

 

4  Laura Cowgill b 18 Sep 1880, Huddersfield, d 1975.

 

5  Martha Gibson Cowgill b 1851, Huddersfield, m 1873, Huddersfield, Isaac Outram, b ca 1849, d 1880s.

Child: known is (another after marriage) - Ann

 

1  Ann (“Annie”) Cowgill b 1868, Huddersfield, m 1 Nov 1890, St Thomas’, Huddersfield, James Howarth, b ca 1867. James was a woolen cloth finisher in Linthwaite in 1891.

 

6  George Starkey Cowgill b 1853, Huddersfield, d 1906, m(1) 1876, Ann Kelly, b ca 1856, d 1883; m(2) 1885, Huddersfield, Isabella Anderson, b ca 1861, d 1926. George was a butcher in Huddersfield, later a laborer in Lockwood, Almondbury. In 1891, he and his family were lodgers with his widowed sister-in-law Ann and her family.

Children: known are – William, Bertha, Benjamin, Gladys

 

1  William Starkey Cowgill b 1886, Lockwood, d 1944, m 27 Nov 1909, St Thomas’, Huddersfield, Alice Dawson, b 28 Apr 1887, d 1972. William was a butcher in Huddersfield.

 

2  Bertha Cowgill b 1888, Lockwood, m 29 Mar 1908, St Paul’s, Huddersfield, Charles Henry Cookson, b ca 1882. Charles was a police constable in Snaith in 1911.

    Child: known is (others after marriage) - Ida

 

1  Ida Cookson Cowgill b 1908, Huddersfield, m 1934, Thomas R. Beaumont.

 

3  Benjamin Thomas Cowgill b 1891, Lockwood, d 1951, m(1) 26 Dec 1912, Holy Trinity, Thurgoland, Blanche Travis, b ca 1893; m(2) 1920, Hannah E. Fowler, b 1890, d 1960.

Children: known are - George, Muriel, Jeanne, Doris

 

1  George Travis Cowgill b 4 Jul 1913, d 1985, m 1937, Durham, Ethel Irene Sykes, b 11 Jun 1913, d 1993.

    Children: known are - Joy, John

 

2  Muriel Cowgill b 1923, m 1943, Frederick C. Greenstreet.

 

3  Jeanne Cowgill b 1925, m 1949, George F. Paul.

 

4  Doris Cowgill b 1928, m 1950, Thomas R. Pearson.

 

4  Gladys Cowgill b 1903, Lockwood, m 1922, Harold Bassindale, b 1889.

 

3  Sarah Cowgill b 27 Dec 1810 (bapt 10 Feb 1811, Huddersfield, as “reputed child” of Jonathan Cowgill and Martha Catton), m 28 Nov 1832, Huddersfield, Thomas Clifford, b ca 1806. Thomas was an innkeeper in Huddersfield in 1841. They had a son, Jonathan Cowgill Clifford, b ca 1835, d 1889. Brother Thomas Cowgill was a lodger in 1841.