Hi Hazel,
Sorry for the delay in replying to you, but am replying here in the main thread. I will write a longer email shortly, but one of the things you asked in your private message to me was about a Keturah Cowley.
I have found her baptism in the Willoughby registers on 27 April 1806 and she was baptised Keturah Cowley, the illegitimate daughter of Sarah Pains.
Sarah Pains married John Cowley, widower, in Willoughby on 5 March 1807, so she was evidently a daughter born to them before they married.
John was baptised in Daventry, Northamptonshire, on 8 August 1762 (born 3rd August) and was the son of John Cowley and Hannah Capel.
This John born in 1762 was firstly married to Catherine Kenning in Willoughby on 1 January 1784 and they had a son Thomas (1788-1861). Catherine was buried in Willoughby on 21 October 1805.
As Keturah was baptised in April 1806, it is clear Sarah Pains was pregant with Keturah at the time John's wife died.
After his marrying his second wife Sarah Pains in 1807, I have found John had the below listed children with her, following daughter Keturah in 1806:
Ann Cowley 1807 –
Elener Cowley 1810 –
John Cowley 1812 –
Capel Cowley 1814 - aft 1841
Mary 1816 -
Hesther Cowley 1818 – 1828
Martin Cowley 1820 – 1881
John Cowley c1825/6 – aft 1841
Hannah 1827-1827
I can't find a burial for the John born in 1812, nor a baptism for the John born c1825/6, however a 15 year old John is with John and Sarah in the 1841 Willoughby census along with elder son Martin born in 1820, and John's eldest son Thomas who was born in 1788 to his first wife. So I assume there were two Johns, unless the census was an error. Also, in this census John's son Capel born in 1814 lived next door.
The William Cowley who married Elizabeth Bennett was baptised at Willoughby on 18 Feb 1772. He was buried at Willoughby on 23 August 1846. He was the son of John Cowley and Hannah Capel and younger brother of the John mentioned above, who was born in 1762. His parents John and Hannah had previously had an earlier son named William who was born in 1767, who evidently died.
John Cowley and Hannah Capel married at Welton, Northamptonshire, on 14 November 1756. Previously in the Welton Parish Register there is an entry for the 17th October 1756 saying that the banns were 'forbidden by Elizabeth Harrison of Drayton by Daventry, Mother of the aforesaid Hannah Capel'. This marriage information was given to me by another Cowley researcher.
John and Hannah had four children baptised at Daventry and then more at Willoughby where they both died. However there is confusion about their children as some are named in the registers naming the mother as Elizabeth. The William born in 1767 also appears to have been buried as 'John' in 1770.
Anyway I will write more of this in a later post with a more detailed reply on all the Willoughby Cowleys shortly.
Kind regards,
Jon
