Perowne Pedigrees

The descent of THOMAS PEROWN (PEROWNE) (b.1771)

(1) FRANCHOY PIERON	}
(2) JACQUE PIERON	}
(3) JAMES PERONNE (PAROON)	}	(see descent of Frachoy Pieron)
(4) JAMES PAROON (PEROWN)	}

(5) THOMAS PEROWN (PEROWNE), + 8-Sep-1771, at St Martin@Palace Norwich cloth manufacturer and, as a widower, in trade as a grocer; m. , by banns, 17-Nov-1788, at St John, Timberhill, Norwich, Sarah (b.1771; d.30-Sep-1940, at Heigham, Norwich), daughter of Henry (d.1797) and Hannah Grace (nee Cock) (d.1778) Nixon, of Great Yarmouth ("a visitation. family in St Augustine, Norwich") – “Thomas signed his name and Sarah made her mark"; d.21-Dec-1854, aged 83, of pneumonia, at 1, High Street, Hoxton Old Town, the home of his daughter Harriet - (j) below; having had issue:

(a) Sarah, +25-Dec-1788, at St John, Timberhill, Norwich; domestic servant; d.unm., of apoplexy, 10-Ocr-1868, at Cross Street, Calvert Street, Norwich.

(b) Jane, b.4-Jul-1790 (+11-Jul-1790 at St Michael@Plea) in Norwich;d, inf bd.29-May-1793 All Saints, Norwich.?

(d) THOMAS, b.1794, Of whom presently.

(e) ROBERT, b.9-Apr-1799 (+ 21-Apr-1799 at St Martin@Oak) in Norwich; master tailor, of 204, Nelson Street, Heigham, Norwich; m.(poss.29-Jun-1818, at St Helen's, Norwich Thomas Bailey and Daniel Moore as witness) Sarah (poss.Bacon)(b.1790/1;as a widow (1859) kept shop at the same address; d.25-Aug-1865); d.20-May-1856 leaving issue:

(i) Sophie m.James Hogg, of Waddington Street, Heigham, Norwich (named as executor in the Will of his mother in-law, Sarah Perowne).

(f) Harriet (I) , b.2-Oct 1800 (+ 5-Oct-1800 a t St Martin@Oak) in Norwich; d.inf.;bd.26-Ocr-1800 at St Martin@Oak.

(g) Mary Ann, b.9-Ocr-1801 (+ 11-Ocr-1801 at St Martin@Oak) in Norwich; pres.m.1837-Q3 ante.

(h) Emily Rebecca, b.3-Dec-1803 (+ 4-Dec-1803 at St Giles) in Norwich.d.1806 bd. 2-Feb-1806 at All Saints Norwich

(j) JAMES d.inf. 1808 bd. 24-Jul-1808, All Saints in Norwich

(k) WILLIAM, b.18-Feb-1807 (+ 1-Mar-1807 at St Giles) in Norwich; d.inf.1808. bd 8-Nov-1808 All Saints, Noewich

(l) Harriet(t)(II), b.3-May-1809 (+ 7-May-1809 at St Giles) in Norwich; m., from Trafalgar Road, Greenwich, Kent, 20-May- 1839, at * St Paul's, Islington (Canonbury), Benjamin Poole, licensed victualler, of "Old Whitmoore's Head", Hoxton Old Town, son of Edward Poole, a currier.

(m) Amelia Jane, b.30-Jun-1812 (+ 5-Jul-1812 at St Giles) in Norwich; m.--?-- Hall.

(6) THOMAS PEROWNE, b.1794?in Norwich; variously described as weaver, manufacturer (death cert.), superintendent (auth. William Perowne-Abel), warehouseman (death cert.0_) (d) below) and designer (auth.Miss Pamela Clabburn), in the employ of Messrs Clabburn, Son & Crisp in their celebrated Norwich Shawl Manufactory; resided in Botolph Street in the Parish of St Augustine:

There is, in the church of St Augustine at Norwich, a tablet to the memory of Thomas Clabburn (d.1858), head of this important textile firm, making "shawls in every variety and also paramattas, baregees, tamataves, balzarines, poplins, fancy robes and Grenadines etc., .... The congregation of St Augustine's were known as ‘Red Steeplers' from the fact that the church tower was the only one in Norwich built of red bricks” (“The OldChurches of Norwich")

THOMAS PEROWN(E) m.1814 at St Augustine's, Heigham, Mary Sowels (Var.Sowell) (b.Jun-1795; d.17-Ocr-1854; bd. St Augustine); d.17-May-1865, at Bedford Street, Heigham, Norwich; having issue:

(a) Elizabeth Sowels, b.1820; m.1845-Q4, in Norwich, Daniel Abel (b.1812; d. 24-Feb-1886), cabinetmaker and upholsterer in Pottergate Street (Norwich Directory, 1854); res.(1875) at Aylesbury Villas, Church Street, Heigham; d.1907, having had issue:

(i) Daniel (Abel); died young

(ii) Alice Elizabeth (Abel); m.Albert Edward Coe; d.25-Dec-1938, of 411 Unthank Rd, Norwich.

(iii) Elizabeth Helen (Abel); m.T.H.Bell.

(iv)William Perowne-(Abel), b.1851;

m.1) Alicia Emilie Ruston (d.5-May-1877);

m.2) Elizabeth Willer Osborne (b.1851; d.24-May-1919); d.30-Aug-1937,

leaving issue by his first Wife:

a.Alec (Perowne-Abel).

and by his second Wife:

b.Norah Osbourne Perowne(Abel); m.G.Milne; d.18-Feb-1949, widow of the Beeches, Northmuir,Kirriemuir,Angus NB.

c.Frederick William (Perowne-Abel)("Fritz"), b.1888; m.Ethel May Willson (d.7-Apr-1973); of 9, Upton Road, Norwich; having issue:

i.Geoffrey William (Perowne-Abel), b.1923; m.Caroline Beadon (2 daus., Gillian and Elizabeth).

ii.Ian Richard (Perowne-Abel), b.1926; m. Dorothy Halliburton (2 daus., Carolyn and Alison).

(v) Mary (Abel); m.1) Ernest Leman; m.2) Edward Paris; d.1948.

(vi) Catherine (Abel), b.1856; d.1858.

(vii) Annie (Abel), b.1858; d.1860.

(viii)Harriet Sowels (Abel); m.Frederick Sharpe; d. 27-Jan-1933, widow of King's Lynn. JA Charlotte Sowels (Abel); m.Edward Ashcroft.

(ix) Thomas Perowne(Abel) of 384 Unthank Rd, Norwich; m.Alice Lusher; d. 2-Jul-1946. ( 1 daughter., Kathleen Mary Abel), living (1973) at 31 Josephine Close, Patricia RoadNorwich)

(b) Mary (I), b.1821 (+ 28-Ocr-1821 at St Edmund's, Norwich):, d.inf.

(d)Mary (II), b. 1827; d.28-Mar-1844.

(e)JONATHAN SOWELS, b.1830, of whom presently.

(f) ROBERT JOHN SOWELS, b.20-Aug-1832 (+ 2-Sep-1832 at St Saviour’s) in Norwich; clerk (1859), of Botolph Street, Norwich; accountant and insurance manager, latterly of 106, Bristol Road, Birmingham; m. 19-May-1859 in the Free Christian Church, Redwell Street, Norwich, Elizabeth (b.1833; d.1899-Q4), daughter of James Christopher Heath, of Adelaide Street, Norwich; d.23-Jul-1886; leaving issue:

(i)Mary Edith, b.1860-Q4, in Norwich; m.21-Jul-1892, , at St A~, nes, Newington, London, Frank, Dalton, widower, insurance manager, of Moseley, Birmingham, son of Witton Dalton, Gent.

(ii) FRANK ROBERT, b.1866-Q3 in Norwich; surveyor, of 342, Boldmere Road, Erdington Birmingham; m.17-Jul-1900, at Edgbaston, Birmingham, Louisa (b.1873; d.14-Apr-1940), daughter of John Davis, manager, of Pershore Road, Edgbaston; d.23-Jul- 1920, 1eaving issue:

a. Mary Louise, b.1901-Q2 at Aston Birmingham; m.1934-Q3, in Birmingham, Frank Jarnes Preece.

(7) JONATHAN SOWELS PEROWNE, b.24-Mar-1830 (+ 4-Apr-1830 at St Saviour’s) in Norwich; journeyman upholsterer in Sussex Street, Norwich (1860) and, later, accountant (1868) in the Norwich Union Insurance Company, Surrey Street, Norwich; residing in Kimberley Street, Heigham and, later, at 41, Oxford Street, Heigham, Norwich; m.2-Jun-1859, in Norwich, Elizabeth Ann Armsby (b.1839; d.1917); d.2-Apr-1891,

having had issue:

(a) ERNEST JONATHAN, b.12-May-1860, at Kimberley Street, Heigham Norwich; d.1865-Q3.

(b) Edith Elizabeth, b.1861-Q4 in Norwich; d.unw.1908-Q4.

(d) HERBERT ROBERT, b.9-Jul-1868, of whom presently.

(e) Ethel Marie, b.1872-Q2 in Norwich; m.1900-Q1, at Freebridge L., Arthur Graham Dowe, bank manager; d.s.p.

(f) ERNEST CLEMENT, b.1875-Q1, in Norwich; of Alnwick,

Northumberland; d.unm.25-Apr-1909, at Poole, Dorset.

(8) HERBERT ROBERTPEROWNE, b.9-Jul-1868), at 41, Oxford Street, Heigham, Norwich; clerk in the employment of Daniel's Nurseries, Norwich; m.l-Feb-1908, at St Philip, Norwich, Emily Elizabeth Bush (b.8-Feb-1878; d.11-Sep-1957); d. xi:1934 , leaving issue:

(a) RAYIMOND SOWELS, b. 31-Jan-1912, of whom presently.

(b) KENNETH CECIL, b.28-Sep-1913; m.13-Jul-1946, at the Register Office, Norwich, 1, Marion Read (s.p.)

(9) RAYMOND SOWELS PEROWNE b. 31-Jan-1912 in Norwich; butcher, latterly warehouseman, res.(1973) at 2, Ebenezer Place, Sussex Street, Norwich; m.30-Mar-1939, at St Augustine’s Norwich, Florence May Lincoln (b.10-Jun-1912); having, issue:

(a) IVAN RAYMOND, b.28-Apr-1945, of whom presently.

(10) IVAN RAYMOND PEROWNE, b.28-Apr-1945; electronic engineer in Guernsey CI; m.3-May-1969, at ChristChurch, New Catton, Norwich, Jacqueline Sandra Alden; died, 13-Aug-1972, in a road accident in Guernsey, leaving issue:

(11) STEWART MARTIN PEROWNE, b.26-Jul-1972 (+ St Saviour’s) in S.PierrePort, Guernsey CI.