Ellin (Stackhouse) Cowgill (abt. 1639 - aft. 1705)

Born about 1639 in Giggleswick West Riding Yorkshire England

Ancestors

Wife of John Cowgill — married [date unknown] in Yorkshire, England

Wife of Ralph Cowgill — married about 1656 in England

Descendants

Died after 1705 after about age 66 in Middleton, Bucks Co., PA

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Biography

Ellen's year of birth is deduced from information on page 198, Chapter 13, Stackhouse and Connected Families, of Stackhouse, Yorkshire, a Friendly Heritage. It states that Ellen and Thomas Stackhouse were twins and that Thomas Stackhouse died in 1706 at 71 years of age, making their year of birth 1636.^[1]

Ellen was baptized in 1673. She is buried in the Middletown Cemetery, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her father's last name is mentioned as Stackhurst some books, however that has been called into question as there were no Stackhouse families hear Thornton in Craven where Ellen likely married, and several well researched Stackhouse histories strongly assert she was not one of them.^[2]

Ellen was named on the Settle Certificate and emigrated with that group of Quakers to Pennsylvania aboard The Lamb, arriving October of 1682. On the Certificate of Removal she is listed as "Ellen Cowgill widow & her children", so her husband had died prior to June 1682. The Welcome Society has recognized Ellen as a passenger on Lamb with children John, Edmund, Jane and Jennett. Son Ralph had arrived earlier in May of 1682 on Friends Adventure.

The only other record we have of her is her name on the The Lamb's manifest. She does not appear as a witness to any of her children's marriages, including daughter Jane who married in 1685, leading to the conclusion she had died prior to that date.

It has long been thought that Ellen's husband was Ralph Cowgill, however research by Cowgill family association suggests Ellen's most likely husband to be Edmund Cowgill, son of Edmund and Jennett Cowgill, born in 1634 and baptized at Thornton in Craven.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Cowgill History: Genealogical Research, compiled by Beatrice Eleanora Cowgill, John Cowgill Parker, editor. Gateway Press (1986); Google Books lhJGAAAAMAAJ, Hathi Trust (search only).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Cowgill Cousins The American Cowgill Family Tree, http://cowgillcousins.org/; accessed August 21, 2016

• further research: Stuebing, H.G. and Carole J. Cowgill-Stuebing. The descendants of Ellin Cowgill, 1682-1800, Gateway Press (1994) Bryn Mawr, Google Books, Hathi Trust
• Cowgill family documents at Bryn Mawr
• Old Northwest Gen. Qtrly Apr. 1908
• Research of Margaret Harke, in All My Ancestors Plus (family tree) Ellen Stackhouse Cowgill (I2332)
• The Descendants of Ellin Cowgill 1682-1899, by H.G. Stuebing & Carole J. Cowgill-Stuebing by Gateway Press, Inc. 1994. Scanned and online at: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE199745

Acknowledgements

• Profile created by Nathan Pyles through the import of 2018Jan27-Pyles-Gardiner-Allie.ged on Mar 6, 2018.
• WikiTree profile Stackhouse-94 (later merged into Stackhouse-56) created through the import of a GEDCOM file on Jun 4, 2012 by Lundie Pinner. Original source of this information is the FORMAN Family Name Index Book, compiled by Robert Forman and Phoebe-Jane Garland.