Florence Skinner (Cowley)

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Florence Rebecca Skinner (Cowley)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Death: January 11, 1958 (75)
Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Samuel Cowley and Sarah Jane Cowley
Wife of Frank William Bridges Skinner
Mother of Frank Walter Skinner and Nellie Ivy Bixby (Skinner)
Sister of Herbert Cowley; Frederick Cowley and Ellen Elizabeth Cant

Occupation: School Teacher
Managed by: Christopher Michael Wheeler Barrett
Last Updated:

About Florence Skinner (Cowley)

Birth registered in Q2 1882 in Cheltenham.

1891 is age 8 at 18 Chapel Street, Cheltenham with family.

1901 is 18 and a school teacher living with family at 31 Albert Street.

1902, December 27th, marries in St. Paul's Church, Cheltenham to Frank Skinner, a smith. Her father and Ellen Cowley, her sister, are witnesses. Her address at time of marriage was forty-one Albert Street.

Frank emigrated to Canada moving on to New York in 1906. Florence followed with the 2 children to New York arriving on the Etruria on 11th August 1907. She is listed as a teacher.

1910 US Federal census records her and Frank with her 2 children in Queens Ward 4, New York. Frank is an iron worker in an iron shop. She is 27.

1920 is age 37, entered as Dolly, naturalised in 1919, in Adam Street, Norwood, Bergen, New Jersey (their iron working shop) with husband, son and daughter.

1930 is age 46, same place with husband, Frank junior, widowed brother-in-law and two children.

1940 is age 57, with husband only in Ridge Pilse, Collegeville Road, Lower Providence, Montgomery Pennsylvania.

Death in 1958 from PA Death certificates (also full birth date).

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Florence Skinner (Cowley)'s Timeline

1882
May 19, 1882
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
1903
October 25, 1903
Greenwich, Greater London, United Kingdom
1905
1905
Greenwich, Greater London, United Kingdom
1958
January 11, 1958
Age 75
Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States