Tuesday 30th December 2008

The Great Tugwell Mystery - Even Sherlock Holmes would have struggled!  

I have long been puzzled by the marriages of  my great grandfather, Francis Cowley (b abt 1837), and the birth dates of his children.  The mystery is now solved - Francis was actually married three times and not twice as I had originally believed.  The research complication was that he twice married women with the name ‘Mary Ann Tugwell’.  The first was born a ‘Tugwell’ and the second was born a ‘Hart’ and first married a ‘Tugwell’.  (Census documents all showed the wife’s name as Mary Ann so I assumed it was the same person.)  Who said family history research wasn’t fun!

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Detailed Reports Updated

The detailed reports for Francis Cowley (b abt 1806), Francis Cowley (b abt 1837), and Charles Leonard Cowley (1883-1966) have all been updated.   You can also see the WWI sign-up paper for Charles Leonard Cowley.

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Marriage of Eric Thomas Cowley

I now believe that Eric Thomas Cowley, who was killed in a German air raid on London in 1917, was married.  Click here to see the details in the family tree or follow the links in the family tree to Eric’s information page.


Peter Cowley

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