1841 Lookup Please... Cowx

[Knarf45]

Hi

I am keen to find out which members of the Cowx family are listed in 1841.

The particular branch I am looking for reside in Bassenthwaite, particularly looking for John (bc1804); George (bc1810) and William (bc1822).

Any others would also be useful.

Thanks in advance.

Frank

[ange]

Hi Frank,
Here's John & George-

Halls, Bassenthwaite
John Cowx  65  Publican  Y
Sarah  60  Y
George  25  Blacksmith  Y
HO 107/160 05  Page 7

Sorry, no sign of William
Ange

[Knarf45]

Hi Ange,

Thanks.  You've picked up the Senior John which is great but there's also his son John (bc1804) making him around 37 in 1841, definitely no sign of him?

Now need to track George in 1851 census which may also show William. Do you have access to the 1851 census?

thanks again,

Frank

[ange]

Hi,
Here's George in 1851-

Halls, Bassenthwaite
George Cowx  Head  M  40  Blacksmith  Bassenthwaite Cumberland
Susan  Wife  M  31  Bassenthwaite Cumberland
Mary  Dau  7  Scholar  Bassenthwaite Cumberland
Sarah  Dau  5  Scholar  Bassenthwaite Cumberland
John Armstrong  U  25  Blacksmith  Lorton  Cumberland
Ho 107/2434  ED:4a  Folio:43  Page:17

The closest I could find for William, is this one-

Bridge St, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire
Thomas Cook  Head  M  43  Earthenware Fireman  Tunstall Staffordshire
Elizabeth  Wife  M  44  Durham Durham
Mary Jane  Dau  14  Scholar  Hilton Durham
Elizabeth Potts  Serv  U  23  House Serv  Pickton Yorkshire
William Wright  Lodger  U  22  Placer? of Earthenware  Shelton Yorkshire
William Cowx  Lodger  U  26  Commercial Traveller  Carlisle Cumberland
HO107/2383  ED:20g  Folio:384  Page:28

Ange

[Knarf45]

Hi Ange

Thanks again.

I think I'll have to dig abit more about William. My problem is there are so many Cowx families in Cumbria (Bassenthwaite, Uldale, Whitehaven, Workington, Penrith etc) that working out who is related to who is going to take me a few more years 

Hope you don't mind if I call on your services again at some point.

regards
Frank

[Geoff Chew]

Hi Frank

Did you ever find out anything more about your Cowxes?  I see from the censuses that your elusive William turns up in the 1861 census at Bassenthwaite in the same house as his widowed sister Sarah Slater and her children, still unmarried. As he is listed there as a commercial traveller, I should have thought he is indeed the William Cowx found by Ange in Middlesbrough, also as a commercial traveller, in the 1851 census, and that "Carlisle" there is a mistake.

I can't find your John b. 1804 in either 1841 or 1851, even though I have also looked for him as John Cox and John Cowse (which I know is an alternative spelling of the name).

My own tree has, in case this information is of any use to you, an Ann Cowx born Crosthwaite in 1854, who married an Isaac Cartmel; their first child was a William Cowx Cartmel or William Cowse Cartmel (b. 1888).

[Knarf45]

Hi Geoff

I haven't been able to pursue my Cowx research for a while but thanks for the information.

regards
Frank

[Lisasuehelgi]

I hoping someone can help me and my Aunt find her grand father (possibly father) and father.  Grand father's name is Samuel Cowk he is from Cumberland apparently, however I cannot find him anywhere.  He was married to a woman name Ada, and they had a son name Ernest.  They moved to Vancouver BC Canada at some point, but all the searches I have done have come up with nothing, as well as not finding Samuel Cowx anywhere?.....If someone can help me link his name to Cumberland i would be extremely grateful, as would my Aunt, she knows very little of her grand father and father, Samuel could actually be her father as well, know one is quite sure.  Samuel past away in 1945 46 after a fall painting in Vancouver BC.  We are not sure what happen to Ernest except that I did see that an Ernest moved back to the UK in the mid 1940's from Canada through New York.

I look forward to anyone who can help me!! Cheers!
Lisa (Helgason) Thomas, and Joan (Cowx) Helgason

[Geoff-E]

Hi

How old was Sam when he died in 1945ish?

There was an S COWK 14 crossed to Canada in Oct 1911 but I haven't yet found him on a census.