47. Thomas COWEN (Richard , Thomas Wilken , Richard ) was born on 5 Jan 1889 in Port Cygnet,Tasmania, Australia. He died on 8 Jun 1964 in Gardners Bay , Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 2568/33
State Library of Tasmania.
Headstone of Thomas COWEN . ID: 90951
Object number: HUFH_04203
Died in 1964 aged 74yrs. Source: Cradoc St Peters
Thomas married Elvie May POLLEY daughter of Frank POLLEY and Claribel DILLON on 15 Sep 1920 in Gardner's Bay, Tasmania, Australia. Elvie was born on 1 Nov 1902 in Gardner's Bay, Tasmania, Australia . She was buried in 1986 in Cradoc St Peters Cemetery, Tasmania, Australia.
Digger - Tasmanian Federation Index
Surname: COWEN
Given Names: THOMAS
Event: Married
Father/Spouse Surname: POLLEY
Mother/Spouse Given Names: ELVIE MARY
Date: 1920-09-15
Sex: M
Place: ST BARNABAS CHURCH, GARDNERS BAY
Registration Year: 1920
Registration Number: 1711State Library of Tasmania.
Headstone of Elvie Mary COWEN . ID: 90952
Object number: HUFH_04204
Died in 1986 aged 83yrs. Source: Cradoc St Peters
Thomas and Elvie had the following children:
48. Albert John "Skin" COWEN (Richard , Thomas Wilken , Richard ) was born on 15 Nov 1891 in Gardners Bay , Tasmania, Australia. He died on 8 Nov 1942 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No :- 2701/33
Born as Albert John COHENDigger - Tasmanian Federation Index
Surname: BONES
Given Names: Ruth May
Event: Marriage
Father/Spouse Surname: COWEN
Mother/Spouse Given Names: ALBERT
Date: 1918-03-19
Sex: F
Place: HOBART
Registration Year: 1918
Registration Number: 523
Albert married Ruth May BONE daughter of Richard BONE and Elizabeth Mary Ann LOCKLEY on 19 Mar 1918 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Ruth was born on 10 Jul 1898 in Port Cygnet,Tasmania, Australia. She was buried on 19 Jan 1970 in Cornelian Bay, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 1855/33
Digger - Tasmanian Federation Index
Surname: BONES
Given Names: Ruth May
Event: Marriage
Father/Spouse Surname: COWEN
Mother/Spouse Given Names: ALBERT
Date: 1918-03-19
Sex: F
Place: HOBART
Registration Year: 1918
Registration Number: 523First names : Ruth May
Surname : COWEN
Age : 71
Service type : Cremation
Service date : 19-Jan-1970
Last residence : HOBART
These details are extracted from the Southern Regional Cemetery Trust's database records, and are up to date as at Monday, December 25, 2006 .
Albert and Ruth had the following children:
242 M i Daris Leo Bernard COWEN [scrapbook] was born on 29 Dec 1918 in Gardner's Bay, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 11 Jun 1943 in HMAS Leeuwin , Victoria, Australia.
Digger - Tasmanian Federation Index
Surname: COWEN
Given Names: Daris Leo Bernard
Event: Birth
Father/Spouse Surname: Albert COWEN
Mother/Spouse Given Names: Ruth May COWEN nee Bones
Date: 1918-12-29
Sex: M
Place: GARDNERS BAY
Registration Year: 1919
Registration Number: 2105
Service Record
Name: COWEN, DARIS LEO BERNARD
Service: Royal Australian Navy
Service Number: H1875
Date of Birth: 29 Dec 1918
Place of Birth: GARDNERS BAY, TAS
Date of Enlistment: 21 Nov 1941
Locality on Enlistment: CYGNET, TAS
Home Port/Port Division: HOBART, TAS
Next of Kin: COWEN, RUTH
Date of Death: 11 Jun 1943
Rank: Able Seaman
Posting on Death: HMAS Leeuwin
WW2 Honours and Gallantry: None for display
Prisoner of War: No
Roll of Honour: GARDNERS BAY TAS
Casualty Details
Name: COWEN, DARIS LEO BERNARD
Initials: D L B
Nationality: Australian
Rank: Able Seaman
Regiment/Service: Royal Australian Naval Reserve
Unit Text: H.M.A.S. Wallaroo
Age: 24
Date of Death: 11 Jun 1943
Service No: H1875
Additional information: Son of Albert John Cowen, and of Ruth May Cowen, of Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 84, Column 1.
Memorial: PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Location Information:
The Memorial is situated centrally on The Hoe which looks directly towards Plymouth Sound.
It is accessible at all times.
Copies of the Memorial Register are kept at the Tourist Information Office at Island House, 9 The Barbican, Plymouth, PL1 2LS, and also in the Naval Historical Section at Plymouth Library.
Historical Information:
After the First World War, an appropriate way had to be found of commemorating those members of the Royal Navy who had no known grave, the majority of deaths having occurred at sea where no permanent memorial could be provided.
An Admiralty committee recommended that the three manning ports in Great Britain - Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth - should each have an identical memorial of unmistakable naval form, an obelisk, which would serve as a leading mark for shipping.
The memorials were designed by Sir Robert Lorimer, who had already carried out a considerable amount of work for the Commission, with sculpture by Henry Poole. After the Second World War it was decided that the naval memorials should be extended to provide space for commemorating the naval dead without graves of that war, but since the three sites were dissimilar, a different architectural treatment was required for each.
The architect for the Second World War extension at Plymouth was Sir Edward Maufe (who also designed the Air Forces memorial at Runnymede) and the additional sculpture was by Charles Wheeler and William McMillan.
In addition to commemorating seamen of the Royal Navy who sailed from Plymouth, the First World War panels also bears the names of sailors from Australia and South Africa; the governments of the other Commonwealth nations chose to commemorate their dead elsewhere, for the most part on memorials in their home ports.
After the Second World War, Canada and New Zealand again chose commemoration at home, but the memorial at Plymouth commemorates sailors from all other parts of the Commonwealth.
Plymouth Naval Memorial commemorates 7,251 sailors of the First World War and 15,933 of the Second World War
War Memorial of D L B COWEN A/AB.
Died in the 1939-1945 War
Object number: HUFH_05607
Source: Cygnet War Memorial
http://eheritage.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/resources/detail.aspx?KEYWORDS=cowen&ID=HUFH_05607243 M ii David John Gordon COWEN [scrapbook] was born on 24 Dec 1924 in Gardner's Bay, Tasmania, Australia .
49. Walter Tasman COWEN (Richard , Thomas Wilken , Richard ) was born on 14 Feb 1895 in Port Cygnet,Tasmania, Australia. He died on 18 Jun 1953 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No :- 1878/33
Digger - Tasmanian Federation Index
Surname: BONES
Given Names: GRACE ANGELA
Event: MARRIAGE
Father/Spouse Surname: COWEN
Mother/Spouse Given Names: WALTER TASMAN
Date: 1920-08-18
Sex: F
Place: REGISTRARS OFFICE, HOBART
Registration Year: 1920
Registration Number: 1048State Library of Tasmania.
Headstone of Walter Tasman COWEN . ID: 91802
Object number: HUFH_05054
Died in 1953 aged 57yrs. Source: Cygnet St Marks Anglican
Walter married Grace Angela BONE daughter of Richard BONE and Elizabeth Mary Ann LOCKLEY on 18 Aug 1920 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Grace was born on 1 Oct 1899 in Port Cygnet,Tasmania, Australia. She was buried on 29 Dec 1971 in Cornelean Bay, Hobart, Tasmania, Austalia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 1811/33
Digger - Tasmanian Federation Index
Surname: BONES
Given Names: GRACE ANGELA
Event: MARRIAGE
Father/Spouse Surname: COWEN
Mother/Spouse Given Names: WALTER TASMAN
Date: 1920-08-18
Sex: F
Place: REGISTRARS OFFICE, HOBART
Registration Year: 1920
Registration Number: 1048State Library of Tasmania.
Headstone of Grace Angela COWEN . ID: 91803
Object number: HUFH_05055
Died in 1971. Source: Cygnet St Marks AnglicanFirst names : Grace Angela
Surname : COWEN
Age : 72
Service type : Cremation
Service date : 29-Dec-1971These details are extracted from the Southern Regional Cemetery Trust's database records, and are up to date as at Tuesday, November 15, 2005 .
Walter and Grace had the following children:
244 M i Athol Dennis COWEN [scrapbook] was born on 9 May 1925 in Gardner's Bay, Tasmania, Australia . 245 M ii Clarence Douglas COWEN [scrapbook] was born on 3 Mar 1921 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia . He died on 15 May 1997 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
51. Thomas Henry NICHOLS (Sarah Maria COWEN , Thomas Wilken , Richard ) was born on 23 Aug 1872 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia.
Thomas married Susan Isabel STANTON daughter of John STANTON and Sarah Ann THORP on 17 Nov 1897 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia. Susan was born on 14 Jan 1870 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No. :- 1260/33
Was born as Sarah Ann Isabel STANTONTasmanian Pioneer Index Marriage No:- 814/37
Thomas'age was stated as 25 years and Susans as 27 years.
Thomas and Susan had the following children:
54. Susan Geraldine NICHOLS (Sarah Maria COWEN , Thomas Wilken , Richard ) was born on 12 Sep 1877 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 1427/33
Susan married Robert John THORP son of Robert John THORP and Annie Jane MIDSON on 14 Dec 1898 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia. Robert was born on 11 Jul 1868 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 1211/33
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Marriage No. :- 877/37
Robert's age at Marriage was stated as 29 years and Susan's was stated as 21 years
Robert and Susan had the following children:
55. Hilda Sarah NICHOLS (Sarah Maria COWEN , Thomas Wilken , Richard ) was born on 15 Sep 1879 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 1983/33
Hilda married Edward William JARRETT son of Edward JARRETT and Sarah BARROWS. Edward was born on 22 Jul 1851 in Findon, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
They had the following children:
+ 256 F i Dorothy Maud JARRETT was born on 12 Oct 1903. She died on 18 Mar 1991.
57. John NICHOLS (Sarah Maria COWEN , Thomas Wilken , Richard ) was born on 15 Aug 1885 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 10 Apr 1959 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 2493/33
State Library of Tasmania
Headstone of John NICHOLS . ID: 91937
Object number: HUFH_05189
Died in 1959 aged 73yrs. Source: Cygnet St Marks Anglican
John married Elsie Beatrice THORP daughter of Robert John THORP and Annie Jane MIDSON on 11 Feb 1915 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Elsie was born on 11 Jul 1884 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 21 Feb 1971 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 2471/33
Digger - Tasmanian Federation Index
Surname: THORP
Given Names: Elsie Beatrice
Event: Marriage
Father/Spouse Surname: NICHOLS
Mother/Spouse Given Names: John
Date: 1915-02-11
Sex: F
Place: ST DAVIDS CATHEDRAL, HOBART
Registration Year: 1915
Registration Number: 283State Library of Tasmania.
Headstone of Elsie Beatrice NICHOLS . ID: 91938
Object number: HUFH_05190
Died in 1971 aged 86yrs. Source: Cygnet St Marks Anglican
John and Elsie had the following children:
58. William Thomas SMITH (Matilda Ann COWEN , Thomas Wilken , Richard ) was born on 11 Jul 1872 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 1238/33
William married Ada Alice ARNOTT on 25 Dec 1895 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. Ada was born in 1872.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Marriage No. :- 457/37
William's age at Marriage is stated as 23 years and Ada's as 23 years.State Library of Tasmania.
Headstone of Ada SMITH . ID: 85053
Object number: BFH_09981
Died in 1888, aged 16yrs. Source: Stanley Old Pioneer Cemetery.
William and Ada had the following children:
258 M i William David SMITH was born on 8 Sep 1896 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 459/33
62. Charles James SMITH (Matilda Ann COWEN , Thomas Wilken , Richard ) was born on 7 Sep 1879 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was buried on 17 Aug 1948 in Carr Villa, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia .
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 1110/33
Born as James SMITHCarr Villa Burial Record Details
Given Names: CHARLES JAMES
Surnames: SMITH
Age: 68
Date of Death: Unknown
Date of Service: 17 Aug 1948
Area: Monumental Cemetery
Location: F2
Number: 156
Charles married Mary Alpha CALDWELL daughter of William CALDWELL and Mary BUSHBY. Mary was born on 2 Feb 1882 in Longford, Tasmania, Australia . She was buried on 13 Aug 1955 in Carr Villa, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia .
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 1775/33
Carr Villa Burial Record Details
Given Names: MARY ALPHA
Surnames: SMITH
Age: 73
Date of Death: Unknown
Date of Service: 13 Aug 1955
Area: Monumental Cemetery
Location: F2
Number: 156
Charles and Mary had the following children:
64. Frederick Walter SMITH (Matilda Ann COWEN , Thomas Wilken , Richard ) was born on 3 Feb 1883 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 6 May 1967 in Launceston, Tasmania , Australia. He was buried on 9 May 1967 in Carr Villa, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 2749/33
Carr Villa Burial Record Details
Given Names: FREDERICK WALTER
Surnames: SMITH
Age: 86
Date of Death: 6 May 1967
Date of Service: 9 May 1967
Area: Monumental Cemetery
Location: B15
Number: 213
Frederick married Elsie Eulalie SEYMOUR daughter of Alexander Joseph "Alec" SEYMOUR and Alice Emma WATERS on 19 May 1907 in Launceston, Tasmania , Australia. Elsie was born on 28 Jul 1885 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia . She was buried on 21 Jun 1935 in Carr Villa, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 459/33
Carr Villa Burial Record Details
Given Names: ELSIE
Surnames: SMITH
Age: 44
Date of Death: 19 Jun 1935
Date of Service: 21 Jun 1935
Area: Monumental Cemetery
Location: B15
Number: 213
Frederick and Elsie had the following children:
65. Amy Amelia SMITH (Matilda Ann COWEN , Thomas Wilken , Richard ) was born on 17 Feb 1885 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 20 Apr 1957 in Launceston, Tasmania , Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 133/33
Carr Villa Burial Record Details
Amy married Alfred William WILKES on 3 Jun 1907. Alfred was born in 1876. He was buried on 14 Oct 1941 in Carr Villa, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia .
Digger - Tasmanian Federation Index
Surname: WILKES
Given Names: ALFRED WILLIAM
Event: Marriage
Father/Spouse Surname: SMITH
Mother/Spouse Given Names: AMY AMELIA
Date: 1907-06-03
Sex: M
Place: ST PAULS CHURCH, LAUNCESTON
Registration Year: 1907
Registration Number: 704Carr Villa Burial Record Details
Given Names: ALFRED WILLIAM
Surnames: WILKES
Age: 65
Date of Death: 12 Oct 1941
Date of Service: 14 Oct 1941
Area: Monumental Cemetery
Location: B1
Number: 300
Alfred and Amy had the following children:
67. Henry James COWEN (Henry , Thomas Wilken , Richard ) was born on 9 Jun 1874 in Gardners Bay , Tasmania, Australia. He died on 28 Oct 1929 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was buried on 29 Oct 1929 in Cornelian Bay, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 1265/33
First names : Henry James
Surname : COWEN
Age : 53
Service type : Burial
Service date : 29-Oct-1929
Last residence : HOSPITAL
Cemetery : Cornelian Bay
Area or denomination : Roman Catholic
Section : AA
Site number : Number 48,These details are extracted from the Southern Regional Cemetery Trust's database records, and are up to date as at Monday, December 25, 2006 .
Henry married Isabel Margaret SCOTT daughter of James SCOTT and Agnes MERCER on 15 Aug 1908 in Currie, King Island, Tasmania, Australia. Isabel was born on 24 Sep 1883 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia .
Tasmanian Pioneer Index Birth No:- 3187/33
Digger - Tasmanian Federation Index
Surname: COWEN
Given Names: HENRY JAMES
Event: Marriage
Father/Spouse Surname: SCOTT
Mother/Spouse Given Names: ISABEL
Date: 1908-08-15
Sex: M
Place: THE HALL, CURRIE
Registration Year: 1908
Registration Number: 665
Henry and Isabel had the following children: