MARK COWTON (1859

	MARK COWTON (1859 – 1941)

Mark Cowton, the youngest son of Francis Cowton and Jane Sutton, was born on the16th of February 1859 at Wold Cottage, Muston Wold, Muston, just on the outskirts of Hunmanby. He was baptised on the 6th April 1859 at Muston .

In 1861 Mark (2 yrs old) was living with his father Francis and Mother Jane at Wold Cottage. His father was a farm labourer. Mark was the youngest of nine children.

In 1871 the family had moved to the West Side of Burlington Street, Hunmanby, and Mark was still living there in 1881 by which time he was a general labourer.

On the 1st September 1883 Mark married Elizabeth Anne Watson (born at Brompton on the 20th August 1858, the daughter of John Watson).

Mark and Elizabeth had four children:-

Harry	baptised 28th September 1884 at Hunmanby (PR). (It is thought that he emigrated to Australia).

Arthur	baptised 12th May 1886 at Hunmanby (PR). He died at the age of 8 months and was buried at Hunmanby 18th December 1886 (PR).

Frank	born 27th May 1888 at Hunmanby

Hilda Jane	born 13th April 1891 at Leeds. She was married twice:-

	Her first husband, William Samuel Morrison, was the son of Philip Morrison and Mary Jane (Little). Hilda and William married on the 1st of August 1914 at Leeds. They had six children:-

	Mark	He married Rene and had a daughter Susan (married name Keghley).

	Hilda	born 20th February 1917. She married Arthur Bacon. They had three children:-

	Sandra

	Denise

	Janice (her married name is Stewart and she has two daughters Joanne and Lindsey)

	Margaret Evelyn	born 14th January 1919. She married William Moore. They had four children:-

	Philip

	Joan (Married to Mick Brown, they had two daughters:- Faye and Dawn. Faye married Simon and had three children: - Chelsea, Jordan & Amberley)

	Patricia

	Margaret (Married to John Drage, they had two children Benjamin and Charlotte. Benjamin married Joanne and has a daughter Laura)

	Margaret died aged 53yrs.

	Samuel

	Emmie

	Kenneth	born 14th May 1928 at 7 Moseley Row, Leeds, and died in Birmingham on the 13th December 2003. He was married at Holy Trinity, Meanwood, Leeds, on the 4th of March 1950, to Joyce (Fozard) (daughter of Joseph & Nellie (Blakeney). Kenneth & Joyce were divorced. They had four children, one of whom, Kevin Morrison, continues to research the family history and provided the main part of the information here.

	Hilda’s second marriage was to Thomas Mortimer on the 3rd November 1951 at Leeds. Hilda’s occupation was given as Assistant Hospital Nurse and Thomas’ as Photographer. Hilda died at Leeds when she was 68 on 17th May 1958.

Elizabeth died on 21st July 1900 at home, (31 Hartwell Rd, Burley, Leeds), from 'Cancer of the Gall Bladder, Jaundice, Exhaustion'. The 1901 census shows Mark, a widower, living at 31 Hartwell Road, Headingley, Leeds with son Harry, aged 16 yrs. (Hilda Jane, aged 9, is shown to be visiting with a family called ‘Hoggarth’ at ‘The Lodge’ in Hunmanby – probably because her mother (Elizabeth) had recently died).

On the 22nd October 1904 at Leeds Register Office, Mark, a widower, was married a second time to Clara Hutchinson, the daughter of Robert Hutchinson.

Mark and Clara had one child:-

Annie	born 18th March 1905 at Leeds.

Mark died at Leeds on the 2nd November 1941 when he was 82 years of age.

(The continuing family is being researched by Mark’s great grandson, Kevin Morrison)

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