Brighton and Beyond

A History of the Cowley Family

Reproduced by kind permission of The Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton & Hove

Time Line master

From Charles Cowley (1828)

From William Cowley (1798)

Ruth

Gurton

b Abt 1847

d 11 Jul 1927

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2

Charles

Cowley

b Abt 1828

d 8 Nov 1890

Jane

Temple

b Abt 1828

d 14 Nov 1859

John

Davidson

b Abt 1825

d Abt 1854

1877

London

20 Dec 1843

Victoria

Australia

Sarah Wallace

Davidson

b Abt 1845

d Abt 1874

Catherine

Davidson

b 2 Jan 1851

d Not known

2 Mar 1859

Victoria

Australia

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2

3

Emigrated to Australia in 1852 -

returned to UK in 1860

William

Davidson

b 18 Aug 1848

d 17 Mar 1913

Charles James

Cowley

b Abt 1856

d Not known

Returned to UK with father, Charles Cowley, in 1860.

Emigrated back to Australia in 1874.

William Henry Cowley

b Abt 1858

d Abt 1887

Returned to UK with father, Charles Cowley, in 1860

Frank

Cowley

b Abt 1878

d Not known

Percy Leon

Cowley

b Abt 1883

d Not known

Sophia

Hopkins

b Not known

d Abt 1876

Mary Ann

Davidson

b 21 Jul 1852

d Not known

Returned to UK with Charles Cowley in 1860

Jane Marion

Cowley

b Abt 1852

d Not known

Believed to be the same person

20 Feb 1861

London

Sophia Blanch

Cowley

b Abt 1862

d Not known

Edwin Brook

Cowley

b Abt 1864

d Not known

© Peter Cowley 2018

  Page updated - 14 January 2018

Emigrated to Australia with parents and siblings in 1841

Ernest William

Gurton

b Not known

d Not known

Research notes

Click on the ‘Research notes’ link above for an explanation of this rather complicated family tree

Thanks to Christine Bown, Paul Le Gay Brereton, and Vanessa Tayler for their invaluable assistance in researching this family tree

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Charles Cowley

Research notes Last will & testament