Stephen Cawley 1860-1928

NAME

DATE

PLACE

Stephen Cawley

7th October 1860 - baptism

Bardwell  Suffolk

PARENTS

John Cawley

Emily Burrows

MARRIAGE

Naomi Hersom

25th December 1882

St Luke's Church Middlesex

CHILDREN

Ernest Burrows Cawley

11th November 1883 - 22nd November 1949

Steeple Bumpsted, Essex

Jessie Cawley

8th February 1885 - 15th May 1917, Adelaide , Australia

Steeple Bumpsted, Essex

Sydney Cawley

10th October 1886 - 3rd December 1886

Steeple Bumpsted, Essex

Margaret Cawley

8th January 1888 - 30th January 1963, Cromer

Steeple Bumpsted, Essex

Francis Alexander Cawley

26th October 1890  - 12th January 1917 -  Leeds

Hempstead, Essex

Cecil Hersom Cawley

9th July 1893 - 29th November 1980 - Falmouth, Devon

Hornchurch, Essex

Elsie Cawley

18th August 1895 - January 1951, Ipswich, Suffolk

Bardwell, Suffolk

Elizabeth Cawley

 1899 - 27th August 1954, Addenbrooke's Cambridge

Bardwell, Suffolk

DEATH

12th September 1929

Lincoln Hospital

OTHER INFORMATION

Stephen was one of six children from his father's first marriage and  when his father remarried he had a further six step brothers and sisters.  Stephen moved a great deal and  children were born in Essex and Suffolk, but they finally settled at 6 Reeds Buildings, Bury St Edmunds.  However the marriage was not a happy one and often, according to the Electoral Register, he was not present at the family home. On 3rd April 1911 Stephen appeared in court in Bury St Edmunds for failing to maintain his two youngest children, for which he had a court order issued on 20th October 1910. Naomi said that  he was a good man except when he took to drink. He was sentenced to hard labour for one month. It appears that the children did not have a great deal to do with him, indeed Naomi was down as next of kin on all the  war records - no mention of Stephen. at the time of his death he was living at 34 Wraby Street, Brigg - the workhouse. He is buried in Brigg cemetery.