Ernest Benjamin Cowell 1883 - 1953

A mechanical engineering draughtsman and insurance agent and the child of Benjamin Cowell (a woollen warehouse foreman) and Agnes Jacobs, Ernest Cowell, the third cousin twice-removed on the mother's side of Nigel Horne, was born in Chatham, Kent, England on 9 Jul 18831,2,3,4 was married twice, to Ethel Steddy (in 1907 in Medway, Kent, England) and Mabel Heath (c. May 1939 in Strood, Kent, England)6. He had 1 child with Ethel Steddy, Ernest Frederick William.

During his life, he was living at 5 Hope Street, Chatham on 5 Apr 189112 and on 31 Mar 190111; at 1 Campbell Road, Gravesend, Kent on 2 Apr 19111; and at 205 Old Road West, Gravesend, Kent in 193810, on 29 Sept 193913 and in 19539.

He died on 6 Sept 1953 at Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, Kent3,5 and was buried at Municipal Cemetery, Gravesend, Kent on 11 Sept 19537,8.

Citations

1. 1911 Census for England & Wales - Findmypast (was age 27 and the head of the household)
2. England & Wales births 1837-2006 - Findmypast
3. England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 - Findmypast
4. Kent Burials - Findmypast
5. England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1858-2019 - Findmypast
6. England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915 Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Cont
7. North West Kent Burials Transcription
8. Kent Burials - Findmypast
9. From his probate
10. 1938 Kelly´s Directory
11. 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census - Findmypast (was age 17 and the son of the head of the household)
12. 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census - Findmypast (was age 7 and the son of the head of the household)
13. 1939 Register - Findmypast (was the head of the household)

To be done

Municipal Cemetery, Gravesend, Kent, England isn't found