Elizabeth Mabel Cowell 1890 - 1973

A dressmaker and the youngest of 3 children of George Cowell (a foreman army ordnance depot) 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 and and married Lewis Medcalf (a house decorator with whom she had 1 child, Mary H) in Medway, Kent, England c. May 19205.

During her life, she was living at Maidstone Road, Rochester on 5 Apr 1891[1]; at 1 Quarters, Fort Clarence, Rochester on 31 Mar 1901, less than a mile from her sister Ellen Cowell and mother Ellen Bockham who were living at Fort Clarence, Rochester, Kent, England[2]; at Fort Clarence, Rochester on 2 Apr 1911, less than a mile from her sister Alice Cowell who was living at 112 Cecil Road, Rochester, Kent, England; at 94 Rochester Avenue, Rochester on 29 Sep 1939[3]; and at 7 Lyndhurst Avenue, Rainham, Kent in 1973.

She died on 28 Feb 1973 in Chatham, Kent4.

Citations

1. 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census - Findmypast (was age 1 and the daughter of the head of the household)
2. 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census - Findmypast (was age 10 and the daughter of the head of the household)
3. 1939 Register - Findmypast (was the wife of the head of the household)
4. England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 - Findmypast
5. England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 - Findmypast

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Residence record for 1973 contains no citation

Residence record for 2 Apr 1911 contains no citation