Generation 3 - children of John COWIE and Letitia Louisa (O') CALLAGHAN

John Cowie was a bricklayer/stone mason. He married his wife Louisa CALLAGHAN (another name confusion - her first name was actually Letitia although it is rarely used, and she is sometimes documented as O'CALLAGHAN) in Grahamstown on the 23rd January 1850.

Shortly afterwards he placed an advert in the Grahamstown Journal 16th February 1850

"WANTED, by the undersigned, four good MASONS – liberal wages will be given and constant employment for six months. Also, a stout lad, as an apprentice to a Mason. Apply to the undersigned, Adelaide Village. J. COWIE."
(You can search old SA newspapers, and much more, at www.eggsa.org)

John and Louisa had 10 children, of which Child 4: Reuben James COWIE is the direct ancestor I have focused on.

Child 1:

Letitia Ann COWIE

b: 6.12.1850

m: Henry Thomas KEIGHTLEY

d: 1937 KAB

Daughter Edith Ann KEIGHTLEY b: 1875 d: 1918

Child 2:

John Henry COWIE

b: 1852

m: Mary Magdalene LIEFELDT

d: 1928

Children: Ellen, Harry, Herbert

Child 3:

Emily Jane COWIE

b: 25.5.1854 in Alice, Victoria East

DID NOT MARRY

d: 12.6.1936 in Mrs Swati’s Nursing Home, Komgha.
Buried at Komgha Municipal Cemetery (pic)




Emily Jane Cowie's grave in Komgha

 

Child 4:

Reuben James COWIE

b: June 1859 Grahamstown, Cape Province

m: 10.7.1882 Umtata to Elizabeth Ann GOSS

d: 22.3.1935 Johannesburg (cremated in Braamfontein cemetery)

Child 5:

William Warden COWIE

b: 7.3.1861

m: 14.10.1896 Bethulie, Orange Free State to *Annie Margaret SCHIEDER* (she comes up on another family line...)

d: 1916 Bethulie

Child 6:

Charles Rupert COWIE (twin)

b: 6.12.1862

m:

d:

Child 7:

Mary Adelaide COWIE (twin)

b. 6.12.1862

m:

d:

Buried with her father in Komgha (pic)

John Cowie's grave, buried with his daughter Mary Adelaide.

Child 8:

Herbert Hugh COWIE

b:

m:

d:

Child 9:

Joseph William COWIE

b:

m:

d:

Child 10:

Alice Louise COWIE

b: 22.5.1867 on Farm 239, East London Division

m: JONES

d: