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Saltwood Church 2005
Edwin & Fanny's marriage Certificate
This photo is captioned "Charley Gower, Hythe"
- possibly in Arthur Gower's handwriting. My grandmother [Lizzie],
who inherited the photo, has added "My cousin. Died of cancer.
Note the dress of a farm worker, about 1910"
Newington Church 2005
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1876 Elizabeth E Amos,
b.1876, (Fanny's daughter from 1st marriage)
1879 marriage -
Gower, Edwin Boyce 1879 March Marriages Elham Kent
AMOS, Fanny 1879 March Marriages Elham Kent
Marriage certificate:
1879, marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Saltwood
in th County of Kent.
Feb 22nd 1879
Edwin Boyce Gower, full age, Bachelor, Blacksmith, Hythe, Edward Gower,
Labourer
Fanny Amos, full age, Widow, - , Saltwood, John
Finnis, Shepherd
Married in the Parish Church according to the rites and ceremonies of
the established church after Banns by me ?? curate.
This marriage was solemnized between us Edwin Boyce Gower, Fanny Amos
in the presence of us John ?, Emma Finnis
From Sue & Ann:
Edwin Boyce Gower married Fanny Amos February 22, 1879 in Saltwood
Church, daughter of John Finnis and Eliza Watchus. She was born November
19, 1850 in Saltwood. Edwin died November 20, 1906 in Saltwood, Kent.
Buried November 26, Saltwood.
Notes from Sue: Edwin Boyce Gower was a blacksmith and had a
business in Chapel St. at the back of the Red Lion Pub in Hythe, now
known as the Waters Edge. He was a big man, I can remember being told
by Grandma Alice Kate Gower, nee Russell, that he weighed 28 stone.
A lot of his work was shoeing horses that pulled the trams along the
Hythe sea front. He employed 2 men.
1880 John E GOWER, b. 1880, Newington, Kent, d. Nov.23, 1897,
Saltwood, buried Nov. 1897 Saltwood
1881 Census
Civil Parish: Newington; Municipal Borough: Hythe;
Address: Seaway
Edwin Gower, head, 31, blacksmith emp.2 men, b. Kent Lyminge
Fanny Gower, wife, 30, b. Kent Saltwood
Elizabeth E. Amos, daughter, 5, scholar, b. Saltwood,
Kent
John E. Gower. son, 1, b. Newington, Kent
Births Jun 1882 Godfrey Annie Hollingbourne 2a 717
1883 birth - George Gower Mar, Elham, 2a 1068
George GOWER, b. Dec 13, 1882, Newington, died April 8, 1943, Saltwood,
buried April 1943, Saltwood.
Notes from Sue: George Gower went by the name of 'Snowy' as he
was very fair of skin and hair, he was a builder in partnership, and
the business was called Gower and Piper. When my parents Doris and George
Gower [son of this George] were married he built their house 'Overdale',
Stodmarsh Rd., Canterbury overlooking the first fairway of Canterbury
Golf Course, it was a solid house and when the neighbour next door but
one was bombed in the second worl war it was said the roof lifted up
and settled down again as if nothing had happened.
George was in the Hythe Town Band he joined as a boy, and was in it
most of his life. The Hythe Cricket week was a big week for the region,
culminating in the Hythe Venetian Fete, and the band was in great demand.
There was a Ladies Walk that was all lit up on Sunday nights in the
summer, where people slowly walked up and down. The cricket ground was
between the sea and the canal. The Fete was held on the Military canal
and all the people sitting on the bank to see. I remember seeing it
many times as a young girl myself.
One of the last memories of Grandad was him playing tunes for me on
his squeeze box when we went to see them, usually on a Sunday evening
when my father finished work. He could play all sorts of musical instruments.
George was in the First World War, serving in the Royal Engineers and
the Tank Corp.
Births Sep 1882 Jeffery Minnie Amelia Dartford 2a 444
Charles GOWER, b.1885 Lyminge/Hythe, Kent see photo Elham
Jun, 2a 993
Harry GOWER b.1887, Hythe, died September 1948, buried Saltwood.
[Elham, Jun, 2a 1041]
Notes from Sue: Harry married 1. Annie
Godfrey, buried May 21, 1925, Saltwood ; 2.
Lilly Wakeham, she died October 30, 1969, buried Saltwood. [became
a golf pro]
1891 Census
Admin County: Kent; Civil Parish: Hythe; Ecclesastical Parish: St. Leonards
Hythe.
Address: Southley(?) House, Smiths Forge, Mission Hall [Chapel Street]
Edwin B. Gower, head, 41, Blacksmith, b. Lyminge, Kent
Fanny Gower, wife, b. Saltwood, Kent
Elizabeth E. Amos, daughter, 15, Dom. servant,
general dom., b. Saltwood
John E.,11; George 8 b. Newington; Charles 6; Harry 4; b. Hythe - all
scholars
Jane Finnis(?), sister, single, 36, Domestic servant general, b.
Saltwood.
1897 Dec death - Gower, John Edward ; 18 ; Elham
2a 606
1905 Marriage: George Gower & Alice Kate Russell, April
24, Parish Church, Dymchurch, Kent
Notes from Sue: Alice Kate Russell was
born on the 15th April 1884 in New Church, Kent, the daughter of Thomas
George Russell and Emmeline Kate Polhill. She was working as a housemaid
in the 1901 census, aged 16. She was living with a family called Miles,
in Buckwell Boughton Aluph. After her marriage she had George Alfred
Gower on 18th March 1907. She only had the one child and said: "one
was enough, too painful my dear". She brought up Jack Beale, son
of her sister Hilda, nee Russel, and Simon Beale, because Simon went
into the First World War in September 1918 and was killed in October
1918. They had two daughters before Jack was born, and he was born shortly
after his father was killed.
Alice was buried January 1967, Saltwood Church, Kent
1907 birth George Alfred Gower, March 18, Saltwood.
He married 1. Doris May Eveleyn Reynolds, July
19, 1933 in All Saints, Annesley, Notts, daughter of Thomas Reynolds
and Elizabeth Sowter. She was born August 5, 1904 in Kirkby, Notts,
and died March 16, 1969 in Hamilton, New Zealand. 2.
Betty Elizabeth Arnott, June 5, 1971 in Tauranga, New Zealand. She was
born October 26, 1922 in Glasgow.
Notes from Sue: George Alfred Gower was born on 18th March 1907
in Saltwood, Kent, and grew up in Saltwood.
Marriages Dec 1910 Gower Harry : Godfrey Annie Hollingbourne 2a 1763
1911 Census
Elham Kent
GOWER FANNY F 1851 60 head
GOWER CHARLES M 1885 26 son
GOWER ADA F 1878 33
GOWER ANNIE ELIZABETH F 1892 19
- the relationship of the last two is unclear, not daughters.
Births Dec 1912 Gower Henry E Godfrey Elham 2a 2105
Births Dec 1915 GOWER Joyce Godfrey Elham 2a 3003
Marriages Dec 1915 Gower Charles : Jeffery Minnie A ; Elham 2a 3441
Births Dec 1916 Gower William C Jeffery Elham 2a 1957
Births Mar 1923 Gower Ethel M Godfrey Elham 2a 1999
1925 - ANNIE GOWER DIED NOV 21ST 1925 AGED 42 she was the mother
of Ethel and Joyce
 1932
Death in the Sub-district of Hythe in the County of Kent
Third July 1932 Castle Rd., Saltwood R.D.
Fanny Gower female 81 years,
Of The Green, Saltwood R.D. Widow of Edwin Boyce Gower, blacksmith (master)
(1)a Myocarditis b. Lyphostatic? pneumonia no g.m certified by .....
Chas. Gower, son, present at the death, 2 Beckett's Terrace, Castle
Road, Saltwood,
Fifth July 1932
1969 - MINNI GOWER FEB 1969
- grave inscriptions from Saltwood Cemetary
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