Eighth Generation (Continued)
Reginald Woolton FOWLER (Eleanor Frances SMITH7, David Thomas6, Henry5, Susannah RICHARDSON4, Henry3, Henry2, Richard1).
Born on 26 May 1885 in York Villa, Carisbrooke Road, Isle Of Wight, Hampshire, England. Christened on 23 Jun 1885 in St Thomas’, Newport, Hampshire, England.
- 1885 England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
Name: Reginald Woolton Fowler
Registration Year: 1885
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration district: Isle of Wight
Inferred County: Hampshire
Volume: 2b
Page: 577
- 1885 Birth Certificates in Newport, Isle of Wight, Southampton, No. 480
26 May 1885, York Villa, Carisbrooke Road, Newport, U.S.D.
Reginald Woolton, Boy, father Horace Fowler Bank Cashier (informant), and mother Eleanor Frances Fowler formerly Smith
Registered 1 July 1885 by H.W.Horan, Registrar
- 1885 England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: Reginald Woolton Fowler
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 26 May 1885
Baptism Date: 23 Jun 1885
Baptism Place: St Thomas', Newport, Hampshire, England
Father: Horace Fowler
Mother: Eleanor Frances
FHL Film Number: 1470881 item 9 p 201 - no image
- 1914 UK, Electrical Engineer Lists, 1871-1930
Name: Reginald Woolton Fowler
Membership Type: Associate Member
Admission Year: 1913
Residence: Benoni, Transvaal - PO Box 25
List Year: 1914 - page 115 - image
- 1915 UK, Electrical Engineer Lists, 1871-1930
Name: Reginald Woolton Fowler
Membership Type: Associate Member
Admission Year: 1913
Residence: Benoni, Transvaal - PO Box 25
List Year: 1915 - page 114 - image
- 1921 Marriage
Name: Reginald Woolton Fowler - bachelor, farmer, res Empangeni
Event Type: Marriage - after banns
Event Date: 20 Dec 1921
Event Place: Scheepers Nek, Vryheid, Natal, South Africa - in “Heywood”
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Birth Year (Estimated): 1885
Spouse's Name: Madeline Zilla Young - spinster, res Scheefer’s Nek
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 31
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1890
Clergy: P H Baines
Witnesses: A? J? S Young, E R Beates?
Reference ID: cn3565 , GS Film number: 1795120 , Digital Folder Number: 004236458 , Image Number: 01883
"South Africa, Natal Province, Civil Marriages, 1845-1955," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDCP-654
From his grandson:
- Reginald Woolton Fowler, born 26 May 1885
- 2015: They had 4 children, all of whom have passed away. All 4 children - John Horace (my father), Richard Oliver, Nora `Boney' and Geoffrey - were born in South Africa, where Reginald had bought a sugar cane farm in Natal Province. He'd previously been an engineer.
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- 1907 Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935
Name: Reginald N [W?] Fowler - single, Engineer, England, Isle of Wight, Toronto, [no other Fowlers listed]
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Birth Year: abt 1885
Date of Arrival: 3 May 1907
Vessel: Sardinian
Port of Arrival: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Port of Departure: London, England and Le Havre, France
Ticket 16885?
- 2015: No Fowler memorials in South Africa on findagrave
On 20 Dec 1921 when Reginald Woolton was 36, he married Madelline Zilla “Queenie” YOUNG, daughter of Archie YOUNG & Madeline, in Scheepers Nek, Vryheid, Natal, South Africa. Born in 1890 in Howick, Republic Of South Africa.
- Daughter of Archie Young, the fifth surviving son of Surgeon General Henry Young of the Honourable East India Company’s Madras Army. His full name was Archibald James Sewell Young, born the year after the Indian Mutiny. He disappointed and displeased his father by failing to get into Sandhurst and so into the Army like his elder brother (Hal). When he left school he joined the Natal Mounted Police whose founder happened to be in England at the time recruiting for it, from -- the “sons of gentlemen”.
When his contract was up he stayed in South Africa, except for brief visits home. He did odd jobs having has very bad luck farming, his cattle twice being struck down by rindepest. He met and married a widow ten years older than himself with 3 small boys [George, Roderic and Bernard Beater]. They had two more children: Victor and “Queenie” ... With four boys to educate Archie & Madeline were never well off. Also Archie was, I am told, very generous to anyone in trouble so that money was never abundant.
They had the following children:
i.
John Horace “Jack” FOWLER (-<2015)
ii.
Richard Oliver “Dick” FOWLER (-~1988)
iii.
Nora “Boney” FOWLER (-~2010)
iv.
Geoffrey Reginald FOWLER (1932-<2015)