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| Cyril Ernest CHOWN (1910 - 1973) |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
| Cyril Ernest CHOWN (1910 - 1973) | Ernest Augustus CHOWN (1873 - 1953) | Andrew Abel CHOWN (1839 - 1898) | Isaac Elliott CHOWNE (1810 - 1848) | |
| Sarah LASKEY (1801 - 1867) | ||||
| Ellen Matilda BARLOW (1842 - 1918) | ||||
| Marian Minnie Ellen HARRIS (1873 - 1972) | ||||
| b. abt Dec 1910 at St Thomas, Exeter, Devon, England |
| d. 1973 aged 63 |
| Parents: |
| Ernest Augustus CHOWN (1873 - 1953) |
| Marian Minnie Ellen HARRIS (1873 - 1972) |
| Siblings (1): |
| Doreen Marian CHOWN (1904 - 1996) |
| Events in Cyril Ernest CHOWN (1910 - 1973)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| abt Dec 1910 | Cyril Ernest CHOWN was born | St Thomas, Exeter, Devon, England | Free BMD Dec 1910 5b 24 | 2 | |
| 25 Jun 1953 | 42 | Death of father Ernest Augustus CHOWN (aged 79) | 2 | ||
| 1972 | 62 | Death of mother Marian Minnie Ellen HARRIS (aged 99) | 2 | ||
| 1973 | 63 | Cyril Ernest CHOWN died | |||
| Source References: |
| 2. Type: Book, Abbr: Devon to Downunder, Title: Devon to Downunder, Auth: Bettie Elworthy, Publ: Bookbound, Date: 1997 |
| - Reference = 4 (Birth) |
| - Notes: Cyril features in a side-splitting chapter of RF Delderfield's book "For My Own
Amusement". Although no mention is made of the surname, I'd been told about it by a descendant and read it with great relish. Cyril had great long legs and when only 13 was already 5' 10" tall. He was a lifeboat enthusiast, served five years with the Royal Navy during World War II, became a draper and lived about 15 miles from Honiton in Devon. His father Ernest was a Sunday School Superintendent, a strict teetotaller, who had hundreds of valuable items in his archaeological collection. Cyril's mother also taught Sunday School and had 'a delicious Devon burr'. Described as a 'sweet gay soul', she was still living aged 93 when Delderfield's book was published in 1968. (He also wrote "A Horseman Riding By".) |
| - Reference = 4 (Name, Notes) |