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Cowley of Amherst or Daisy Hill
« on: Thursday 19 May 16 01:26 BST (UK) »
I am hoping that someone may be able to help me please.

I have just found a connection with the Cowley family who moved from Gloucestershire England and made their way to Amherst and Daisy Hill.

If anyone has any information they would like to share, grave photographs or hints about the family I would love to hear from you.

I realise my request is very general and apologise for that but it is a new line for me.

Many thanks for any help anyone can offer.

June
   

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Re: Cowley of Amherst or Daisy Hill
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 19 May 16 01:38 BST (UK) »
Any time frame ...?

here are some mentions of Cowley's at Daisy Hill
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01hnk/

here are some mentions of Cowleys's at Amherst
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01hnl/

Here is a long shot  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5833678
 RICHARD COWLEY-Your sister SUSANNA
 WRIGHT (formerly Cowley), of Cirencestor,
Gloucestershire, wishes to see you, Address at Mrs
Rea's grocery store Mercer street Geelong

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Re: Cowley of Amherst or Daisy Hill
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 19 May 16 01:46 BST (UK) »
Hi June

I did some research a number of years ago on 'The Cowley's' of Amherst.  One of my very best friends is a direct ancestor, but of course she doesn't know anything!!!

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ROBERTS / ROBERT / ROBERTSON (Paternal) - Dunbartonshire/Stirlingshire, Scotland
NEWEY - Leicestershire, England
FITZGERALD - Co. Cork - Ireland
HOWLETT - Suffolk, England
PHILMORE - Wiltshire, England
CHAPMAN - Cornwall - England
NICHOLLS - Cornwall - England
SHAW - Nottinghamshire, England
PRITCHARD - Salop, England
ROBERTS (Maternal) - Surrey, England

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Re: Cowley of Amherst or Daisy Hill
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 19 May 16 01:53 BST (UK) »
June

I just found a basic family tree I compiled on the Cowley's from Uley, Gloucestershire.  I dated it 1997.  How time flies...  :o

bitzar...
ROBERTS / ROBERT / ROBERTSON (Paternal) - Dunbartonshire/Stirlingshire, Scotland
NEWEY - Leicestershire, England
FITZGERALD - Co. Cork - Ireland
HOWLETT - Suffolk, England
PHILMORE - Wiltshire, England
CHAPMAN - Cornwall - England
NICHOLLS - Cornwall - England
SHAW - Nottinghamshire, England
PRITCHARD - Salop, England
ROBERTS (Maternal) - Surrey, England


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Re: Cowley of Amherst or Daisy Hill
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 19 May 16 02:13 BST (UK) »
Possibly another connection, a 1918 wedding notice of a daughter of Mr & Mrs J. A. Cowley of a home/property named Daisy Hill in East Brunswick - possibly a nod to ancestors. Children appear to be Doris, Clara, Ernest and Albion.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130035700

EDIT: J A was Joseph Albion, son of Joseph Fisher COWLEY.

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Re: Cowley of Amherst or Daisy Hill
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 19 May 16 02:16 BST (UK) »
Ties in nicely to this chap:

The Ballarat Star, 19 Jul 1894
The death is announced of the oldest settler in the Amherst district—Mr Albion Cowley...76 years of age, arrived at what was subsequently known as Daisy Hill before gold was discovered, in 1849, and built the first hotel...
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/209216141

Albion was the son of Robert COWLEY and Sarah MORGAN (death reg 10778). His wife was Harriet HEAVEN(S). They married in South Australia on 10 Jun 1838 aged 18 and 20, having both arrived in SA in 1837 aboard 'Navarino'. Prior to coming to Victoria they were in Tasmania (then Van Diemens Land). They sailed from Launceston to Adelaide on 1 May 1846 aboard 'Henry' with their 3 children.

Daughter Caroline Ann was born in Adelaide on 5 May 1840. Harriet Eliza was born c1842 (she died in Victoria in 1854 aged 12). Son Robert Joseph was born 21 May 1845 in Port Sorrell district of Tasmania, father Albion COWLEY, farmer of Port Fenton, mother Harriet HEAVEN. They had another son named Albion George. Daughter Harriet Emily born in Amherst in 1855 (reg 11370); she married Robt Allan HENDERSON in 1879 (reg 854).

Harriet snr died in 1872 aged 53, born Gloucestershire, parents shown as Daniel HEARNE and Mary EVANS (reg 14).

Albion's brother Joseph Fisher COWLEY was also in SA (where he married Mary DIVERS in 1846) and then later settled in Amherst, Vic. He died in Vic in 1879 aged 55 (reg 3472).

Another brother, Daniel COWLEY, married in Victoria in 1856 (to Margt McSWEENEY, reg 2119) and lived in Amherst; he died in Vic in 1912 (reg 14469).


EDIT - arrival in SA of whole family: in 1840 on Charles Kerr from London

Likely death for eldest son Robert in Feb 1847 aged 24/25.
Daughter Caroline died Vic 1912 - see http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/91576416)

Thomas stayed in SA and died aged 90. Photos of him in these articles as well as info about his father Robert:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59611198
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/164171057

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Re: Cowley of Amherst or Daisy Hill
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 19 May 16 03:53 BST (UK) »
Last one :)

Robert & Sarah also went to Victoria.

Robert died in 1968: http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/158932852

Sarah COWLEY nee MILLER died in April 1884 at the grand age of 95: http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197794485

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Re: Cowley of Amherst or Daisy Hill
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 19 May 16 04:05 BST (UK) »
Thank you for the reply Bitzar.

Rosball thank you for the links I will enjoy checking them out. - The time frame is from about 1850 onwards.

Mollipops thank you for your information. The names you mention are definitely from the family I am after because I notice the name Albion and the surname Sarah Morgan. These were two of the names I found in my tree and it was on checking what I could find of them that I found they had moved to Australia.

Hopefully I will be able to help someone else some time.

Kind regards - June