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Family of George James Cowell and Eva Ayerst

Husband: George James Cowell (1861-1933)
Wife: Eva Ayerst (1868-1941)
Marriage 20 Apr 1897 St Saviour, Paddington, Middlesex

Husband: George James Cowell

Name: George James Cowell
Sex: Male
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 31 Mar 1861 Heydon, Essex
Birth fact 1861 (age 0) GRO Reference: 1861 J Quarter in ROYSTON Volume 03A Page 221
Mother's maiden name = Hayes
Occupation 20 Apr 1897 (age 36) Sculptor, 14 Blomfield Street, Marylebone
Death fact 1933 (age 71-72) GRO Reference: 1933 M Quarter in PLOMESGATE Volume 04A Page 1558 (aged 71)
Death 1933 (age 71-72) Thorpeness, Suffolk

Wife: Eva Ayerst

Name: Eva Ayerst
Sex: Female
Father: William Edward Ayerst (1823-1890)
Mother: Mary Read Tennant (1833-1897)
Birth 10 Apr 1868 Marylebone, Middlesex
Baptism 26 May 1868 (age 0) St Marylebone, Middlesex
Birth fact 1868 (age 0) GRO Reference: 1868 J Quarter in MARYLEBONE Volume 01A Page 474
Census 1871 (age 2-3) Living with parents
Occupation 1939 (age 70-71) Independent, 52 Lee Road, Aldeburgh, Suffolk (widow)
Death fact 1941 (age 72-73) GRO Reference: 1941 J Quarter in AMERSHAM Volume 03A Page 2088 (aged 73)
Death 17 Apr 1941 (age 73) Chalfont & Gerrards Cross Hospital, Buckinghamshire

Note on Husband: George James Cowell

George James Cowell, was born at Heydon, a small village on the Essex/Cambridgeshire borders, on 31 March 1861, second child of John Cowell, a grocer, and his wife Rosetta née Hayes, who married at Heydon on 18 February 1857. In 1871, a 10 year old, living at Heydon, Essex with his parents, 37 year old John and 33 year old Rosetta, and his five siblings, Robert 12, Sarah 7, Arthur 5, William 3 and Edward 1, all born at Heydon. George was educated at Heydon Junior Middle Infants' School. He married at Paddington, London in 1897, Eva Ayerst after which they moved to Ulcombe, Farnham Road, Snape, Suffolk. In 1900, an artist and in 1901, described at ‘sculptor’ when his 32 year old wife was an ‘artist’. He exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; New Gallery and the Royal Academy from 1886. He was still at Snape Watering, Saxmundham in 1904 but by 1908 had moved to an adjoining village, Old Cottage, Thorpeness, Leiston and was still there in 1911. Still at Thorpeness in 1916 and where he died in 1933, aged 71.

Source: Suffolk Artists, https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=177

Note on Wife: Eva Ayerst (1)

As Eva Ayerst, she was born at Marylebone, London on 10 April 1868, daughter of William Edward Ayerst (1820-1890), a surgeon, and his wife Mary Read née Tennant. who married at Marylebone, London in 1865. In 1881, a 13 year old, living at Ulcombe Street, Ulcombe, Kent with her parents, 57 year old William, born Chatham, Kent and 47 year old Mary, born in India, and her 14 year old sister Annette and they kept nine indoor servants. Eva married in 1897, sculptor George James Cowell, and painted under the name of Eva Cowell. A portrait painter, who exhibited at Liverpool Walker Art Gallery; New Gallery; Royal Society of Portrait Painters; Royal Academy and the Society of Women Artists, in 1897 from Maida Vale, London, in 1901 from Saxmundham, in 1911 Leiston and in 1926 from Aldeburgh, all in Suffolk. In 1899 as Mrs [Eva] Cowell she exhibited at the Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1899, a pastel 'Miss Eleanor Heywood' and in 1901 she exhibited from Saxmundham, at the New Gallery in Regent's Street, London a portrait 'Countess of Wilton' and in 1904 at the Society of Women Artists, a crayon 'Vera, daughter of Hon. Fitzroy Stewart'. In 1939, a widow, living at apartments at 52 Lee Road, Aldeburgh. Living at Conway, Marshall Lane, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire when she died at Gerrards Cross Hospital on 17 April 1941, aged 73.

Source: Suffolk Artists, https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=176

Note on Wife: Eva Ayerst (2)

COWELL Eva of Conway Marshall Lane Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire widow died 17 April 1941 at The Chalfont and Gerrards Cross Hospital Buckinghamshire. Probate Ipswich 10 July to Samuel Clement Taylor Gooding bank manager. Effects £458 17s. 10d.