A dressmaker and the youngest of 3 children of George Cowell (an army ordnance depot foreman) and Ellen Bockham, Elizabeth Cowell, the third cousin twice-removed on the mother's side of Nigel Horne, was born in Rochester, Kent, England on 13 Apr 18901,2,3,4,5 and married Lewis Medcalf (a house decorator with whom she had 1 child, Mary Helen) in Medway, Kent, England c. May 19206.
During her life, she was living at Maidstone Road, Rochester on 5 Apr 18911; at 1 Quarters, Fort Clarence, Rochester on 31 Mar 19012; at Fort Clarence, Rochester on 2 Apr 1911, less than a mile from her sister Alice Sarah who was living at 112 Cecil Road, Rochester, Kent, England7; at 94 Rochester Avenue, Rochester on 29 Sept 19393; and at 7 Lyndhurst Avenue, Rainham, Kent in 1973.
She died on 28 Feb 1973 in Chatham, Kent4.
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=gbc/1891/0005385106
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=bmd/d/1973/1/az/000926/113
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=bmd/m/1920/2/az/000320/004
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=bmd/b/1890/2/az/000126/193
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=TNA/R39/1772/1772G/016/18
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC/1911/RG14/03888/0445/4
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=kent/fhs/bur/civil/179994
Residence record for 1973 contains no citation
Ellen Cowell residence is same location probably should be recorded as the same address (' Fort Clarence, Rochester, Kent, England'/' 1 Quarters, Fort Clarence, Rochester, Kent, England') in 1901
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