John Parkinson Cowling

(My 2xGreat-Grand-Uncle)

Details

Born:		B. 1831, Bap. 9-May-1831, Liverpool St. Peter

Father:		William Cowling 
Mother:		Mary Parkinson, daughter of David Parkinson

Married:	

Spouse:		Amelia Sully

Died:		6-Apr-1893, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA

Children:	William John Cowling (I)
		B. 1860, Kansas, D. 1935, Kansas

		Victoria H. Cowling 
		B. April 1862, Kansas, M. William Zule (1867-1909)
		
		James Cowling
		B. 18-Oct-1865,Kansas. D. 19-Mar-1868

		Albert Henry Cowling
		B. 25-Sep-1866, Leavenworth, Kansas

		Bertha Cowling 
		B. ~1869, D. July 1870, Leavenworth, Kansas

		Alexander Sully Cowling 
		B. 24-Nov-1870, D. 2-Apr-1893

Occupation:	Stone mason, later emigrated to Kansas (in 1850's?) became a farmer

Census

1851:  Headingly Cum Burley	
					
William Cowling		Head	Stone Mason 	
				employing 6 men	M	43	M	Pateley Bridge
Mary Cowling		Wife			M	32	F	Leeds
John P. Cowling		Son 	Stone Mason	U	19	M	Lancs. Liverpool
David L. Cowling	Son 	Scholar		U	12	M	Bewerley
Mary Dray		Lodger	Supported by sonW	69	F	Kent, Dymchurch

Additional Information

West Yorkshire registry of Deeds

Registered 30th May 1870
To the Registrar of West Riding of Country of York.
A Memorial of an indenture dated 4th December 1869, made between:
John Parkinson Cowling of Leavenworth City, Kansas, United States of America, Farmer and Stone mason, 
eldest son and heir at law of Mary Cowling, deceased, formerly the wife of William Cowling, 
late of Bewerley in the parish of Ripon in the county of York, stone mason. 
And which said Mary Cowling was before her marriage Mary Parkinson, spinster and the daughter of 
David Parkinson of Bewerley aforementioned, and Elizabeth, his wife, of the one part.
And Joseph Holmes of Bewerley, stone mason of the other part.

Of and concerning all that messuage or dwelling house with apard garden and outbuildings thereunto adjoining and belonging 
in the village of Bewerley in the parish of  Ripon aforementioned 
And on the East side of the Town Street thereof together with a free and uninterrupted right of way 
and passage for the said Joseph Holmes, his heirs, knarts and assigns and any other persons authorised by him, 
into and out of and over along all that way and passage on the North side of the said messuage or dwelling house 
leading from the Town Street into the said village of Bewerley to the apard and outbuildings behind the said messuage 
or dwelling house, in common with the owner for the time being of the messuage or dwelling house 
situated on the other side of the said way of passage. (Phew !)

Also which said first mentioned messuage or dwelling house is now in the occupation of the said Joseph Holmes, 
his under-tenant or assigns together with appurtenances.

And which said indenture as to the due execution thereof by the said John Parkinson Cowling is witnessed by 
Samuel Sully of Leavenworth, Kansas aforementioned, butcher and George Weatherall of the same place, Grocer 
and as to the execution …… by Joseph Holmes, witnesses: Ralph William Hesslop of the City of Ripon, solicitor 
and Charles Rishworth of Pateley Bridge, in the county of York, Innkeeper.
					Joseph Holmes
					Ralph Hesslop
					Charles Rishworth.




Indenture 15th October 1885
John Parkinson Cowling of Leavenworth City, Leavenworth county, Kansas in the United States of
America, Farmer, of the first part.
David Lupton Cowling of 126, Woodhouse Street, Leeds in the county of York, Blacksmith, 
of the second part.
And William Longster of Blazefield near Pateley Bridge in the third part.

Description of Lands:
All that plot, piece or parcel of land situate on High and Low Bishopside Moor in the parish of
Ripon in the county of York by admeasurement one rood and two perches or thereabouts andnumbered 
151 on the award made on the enclosure of the said High and Low Bishopside Moor. 
Which said piece of land is bounded on the South West bt Workhouse Road, on the South by the 
Ripon and Pateley Bridge Road and on the East by the property belonging to Mr. John Dinsdale
and West by drawing to a point.

Witnesses: Charles Dill of Leavenworth Kansas, US Weather Observer, witness to the execution
by John Parkinson Cowling.
Joe Crowther Oates of 1, Bolland St. Woodhouse, stuff presser, witness to the execution 
by David Lupton Cowling.

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