Introduction to the Cowing Family History
This history although beginning with the Cowing Family will also draw into it the Potts's, Greenup's, Allen's, Alderson's, Dickinson's, Rodger's, Burn's, Bell etc., etc., along the way of discovering where the Cowing family originated from.
Where ever possible we have included family stories and memories and I have tried to intertwine them with the history of the time to give a feeling of what it might have been like to live and work in those long ago days.
Links to each family name will gradually appear down the left of each page to be explored and we hope enjoyed.
Photograph Left - Grandad Thomas Cowing and Great Grandmother Mary probably taken at Cowen Terrace, Rowlands Gill just before the 1st world war, with their servent girl young Ellen. Thomas still covered in Coal dust after his shift down the pit.
