Ernest Benjamin Cowell 1883 - 1953

A mechanical engineering draughtsman and the child of Benjamin Cowell (a foreman woolen warehouse) 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 and was married twice, to Ethel Steddy (in 1907 in Medway, Kent, England) and Mabel Heath (c. May 1939 in Strood, Kent)4. He had 1 child with Ethel Steddy, Ernest Frederick William.

During his life, he was living at 5 Hope Street, Chatham on 5 Apr 1891[9] and on 31 Mar 1901[8]; at 1 Campbell Road, Gravesend, Kent on 2 Apr 1911[1]; and at 205 Old Road West, Gravesend, Kent in 1938[7], on 29 Sep 1939[10] and in 1953.

He died on 6 Sep 1953 at Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, Kent2 and was buried at Municipal Cemetery, Gravesend, Kent on 11 Sep 19535,6.

Citations

1. 1911 Census for England & Wales - Findmypast (was age 27 and the head of the household)
2. England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 - Findmypast
3. Kent Burials - Findmypast
4. 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
5. North West Kent Burials Transcription
6. Kent Burials - Findmypast
7. 1938 Kelly´s Directory
8. 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census - Findmypast (was age 17 and the son of the head of the household)
9. 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census - Findmypast (was age 7 and the son of the head of the household)
10. 1939 Register - Findmypast (was the head of the household)

To be done

Residence record for 1953 contains no citation

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

Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, Kent, England isn't found