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Jeffrey Gladstone COWAN

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Jeffrey Gladstone COWAN (son of John Dickson COWAN and Rosalie Elizabeth AITCHESON).

    Family/Spouse: Tammy TOLIAS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  John Dickson COWAN (son of William Dickson COWAN and Mary Isabelle GREIG).

    John married Rosalie Elizabeth AITCHESON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Rosalie Elizabeth AITCHESON (daughter of Norman Gladstone AITCHESON and Doris Mary HADLOW).
    Children:
    1. 1. Jeffrey Gladstone COWAN
    2. David Gibb COWAN


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  William Dickson COWAN was born on 23 Mar 1909 in Toronto (son of Lt-Col William COWAN and Evelyn Wilda TURNER); died in Jun 2003 in Toronto; was buried in Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.

    William married Mary Isabelle GREIG in 1947 in Toronto. Mary (daughter of Wickliffe Knox Luther GREIG and Jessie Belle JEFFREY) was born in 1917 in Toronto; died in 1952 in Toronto; was buried in Cobourg Union Cemetery, Cobourg, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Mary Isabelle GREIG was born in 1917 in Toronto (daughter of Wickliffe Knox Luther GREIG and Jessie Belle JEFFREY); died in 1952 in Toronto; was buried in Cobourg Union Cemetery, Cobourg, Ontario.

    Notes:

    Born in Toronto Lived at 176 Briar Hill Avenue (originally numbered 100 before extension of the street to Yonge St) until about 1918.

    Children:
    1. William Greig COWAN
    2. 2. John Dickson COWAN

  3. 6.  Norman Gladstone AITCHESON

    Norman married Doris Mary HADLOW. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Doris Mary HADLOW
    Children:
    1. 3. Rosalie Elizabeth AITCHESON


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Lt-Col William COWAN (son of David COWAN and Amelia INGLIS).

    William married Evelyn Wilda TURNER in 1908. Evelyn died in 1975. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Evelyn Wilda TURNER died in 1975.
    Children:
    1. 4. William Dickson COWAN was born on 23 Mar 1909 in Toronto; died in Jun 2003 in Toronto; was buried in Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.
    2. Kathleen COWAN was born in 1911; died in 1916.
    3. Evelyn COWAN died in 2008.

  3. 10.  Wickliffe Knox Luther GREIG was born on 14 Nov 1883 in Montreal; was christened on 12 Mar 1884 in Montreal (son of William GREIG and Elizabeth McGowan RODGER); died about 18 Nov 1941 in Toronto; was buried in Cobourg Union Cemetery, Cobourg, Ontario.

    Notes:

    Moved to Philadelphia April 26, 1910 (see Library Item 3a).

    Marriage License (see Library Item 3a) lists him as a "Clerk" in Nov 1911

    Dau's Society Blue Book, Montreal 1905-06 says he was still living at 400 Cote St Antoine - his parents home.

    Living locations after marriage, according to notes prepared by his wife in her application for old age security:
    1911-1913 Philadelphia Pa US
    1913-1918 Toronto (122 Warren Road in 1913 then #176 Briar Hill Ave - formerly #100 Briar Hill Road)
    1918-1938 Winnipeg (1042 MacMillan Avenue)
    1938-1941 Toronto (141 Hillsdale Ave) (Death notice says he came to Toronto 5 years before death.

    Other details derived by Bill Cowan research in October 2017 by various emails:
    - Prior to marriage he was Bank Manager for the Royal Bank in Port Moody BC 1907-1910.
    - In 1919 he was Superintendent of Western Branches for the Home Bank (426 Main St), before it failed in 1923.

    According to his death notice in the Toronto Daily Star (Item #5 in his Library) he represented London Life in Winnipeg after the Home Bank. He was still working for London Life when he died. At the time he was branch secretary of the Toronto-Bloor agency.

    Wickliffe married Jessie Belle JEFFREY on 14 Nov 1911 in Toronto, Ontario. Jessie (daughter of John JEFFREY and Mary SUTHERLAND) was born on 22 Jul 1885 in Cobourg, Ontario; died about 1975 in Toronto; was buried in 1975 in Cobourg Union Cemetery, Cobourg, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Jessie Belle JEFFREY was born on 22 Jul 1885 in Cobourg, Ontario (daughter of John JEFFREY and Mary SUTHERLAND); died about 1975 in Toronto; was buried in 1975 in Cobourg Union Cemetery, Cobourg, Ontario.

    Notes:

    Belle Jeffrey's sister, Mary Hutchison, was next door neighbour to William Greig in Westmount Montreal (see Item #3 and 5 in his Library) until roughly 1906. Belle was visiting her sister and got invited across the street to a neighbour's party where William's son Wickliffe was similarly invited. (Oral communication in about 1975 from Eileen Hutchison (daughter of Mary) who was about 5 years old at the time of said party. Eileen vividily remmebers reports of this exciting event.) See William Greig Library Item #5.

    Eileen reported that her family rented a cottage near the Greig's rented cottage at South Bristol, Maine, when she was a kid, roughly 1910-1915. See Wickliffe Library Item #9 and William Library Item #4.

    Belle Jeffrey signed Janet (Jessie) Jeffrey's vistor book in 1893 (see Janet Jeffrey Library Item 4 Page 13).

    Belle was artistic - see Libary Item 4

    Living at 26 Earl St Toronto Nov 22, 1905 when her beau of the day sent her a postcard, 6 years before she married him. (See Library/ Wickliffe Geig/Items 17 and 17a)

    Children:
    1. 5. Mary Isabelle GREIG was born in 1917 in Toronto; died in 1952 in Toronto; was buried in Cobourg Union Cemetery, Cobourg, Ontario.