Cowen, Davies, Lauder Family Tree
Cowen, Davies, Lauder Family Tree
Martin Davies
Introduction
This is the family tree of the Welsh/Scandinavian-derived Davies clan and related families: the English/Irish Cowens and the German Lauders/Laudehrs. It is necessarily incomplete. If you see any errors or omissions in this document please bring it to the attention of Martin Davies: wmdavies[AT]unimelb.edu.au.
Navigation through the web archive is easy.
—Clicking on the Contents link will return to the front page at any place in the genealogy file.
—Clicking on your browser back button will return one step.
—Clicking on the tree icon will display a relative tree for that person.
—Clicking on the camera icon will display any documents and photos related to each person.
—Use the arrows and hyperlinked names to navigate around the genealogy.
—Clicking on the name of each person will display a short bio (if available).
—The Home Card is the card of myself, Martin Davies, and my immediate family which can be accessed at any place in the archive.
The genealogy was produced with the assistance of work done by Ellen Arnott (née Cowen), Alva “Bobbie” Davies (née Cowen), Paul Cowen, David Lauder and Ros Lauder. I acknowledge their fine work.
Points worthy of note:
—The first white woman born (in a tent) to permanent settlers on the Mornington Peninsula;
—Prominent landowner and local identity in Frankston, after whom a road was named, and who named his sons Septimus, Octavius and Decimus;
—German brothers who Anglicised their name during WWI so customers would not avoid paying their bills, and who went to court charged with manufacturing explosives, and being cruel to a horse.
—A Welsh coal mine owner with a Nordic father with a long white beard, this being the ancestral antecedents of the Davies clan;
—A remote location in the Strezlecki Forest where the Davies and Lauder clans both independently resided in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The likelihood of that is astonishingly small but it happened;
—A decorated Gallipoli war veteran who wrote home from a hospital in Malta—caught in flagrante delicto with his lover by a private detective;
—A boy who was one of only three in Australia to win a medal for music—who died aged 13 of rheumatic fever;
—A triumvirate of journalists and writers who established the first English newspaper in China—one of whom published a book on the Russo-Japanese war;
—An engineer who worked in Malaysia, who constructed major infrastructure projects in Victoria—and who married a Fitzroy prostitute.
Who said family history was boring?
….And, of course, the usual parade of “normal” people: accountants, welders, postmen, housewives, academics and teachers.
The ancestry has been traced to 1827 (Davies), 1788 (Cowens) and 1788 (Lauders/Laudehrs) mostly due to the work of others mentioned above.
The cover photo is three generations of Davies clan: William James Davies, John Henry “Jonty” Davies, and William Frankston Davies (circa 1955).
Navigation through the web archive is easy.
—Clicking on the Contents link will return to the front page at any place in the genealogy file.
—Clicking on your browser back button will return one step.
—Clicking on the tree icon will display a relative tree for that person.
—Clicking on the camera icon will display any documents and photos related to each person.
—Use the arrows and hyperlinked names to navigate around the genealogy.
—Clicking on the name of each person will display a short bio (if available).
—The Home Card is the card of myself, Martin Davies, and my immediate family which can be accessed at any place in the archive.
The genealogy was produced with the assistance of work done by Ellen Arnott (née Cowen), Alva “Bobbie” Davies (née Cowen), Paul Cowen, David Lauder and Ros Lauder. I acknowledge their fine work.
Points worthy of note:
—The first white woman born (in a tent) to permanent settlers on the Mornington Peninsula;
—Prominent landowner and local identity in Frankston, after whom a road was named, and who named his sons Septimus, Octavius and Decimus;
—German brothers who Anglicised their name during WWI so customers would not avoid paying their bills, and who went to court charged with manufacturing explosives, and being cruel to a horse.
—A Welsh coal mine owner with a Nordic father with a long white beard, this being the ancestral antecedents of the Davies clan;
—A remote location in the Strezlecki Forest where the Davies and Lauder clans both independently resided in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The likelihood of that is astonishingly small but it happened;
—A decorated Gallipoli war veteran who wrote home from a hospital in Malta—caught in flagrante delicto with his lover by a private detective;
—A boy who was one of only three in Australia to win a medal for music—who died aged 13 of rheumatic fever;
—A triumvirate of journalists and writers who established the first English newspaper in China—one of whom published a book on the Russo-Japanese war;
—An engineer who worked in Malaysia, who constructed major infrastructure projects in Victoria—and who married a Fitzroy prostitute.
Who said family history was boring?
….And, of course, the usual parade of “normal” people: accountants, welders, postmen, housewives, academics and teachers.
The ancestry has been traced to 1827 (Davies), 1788 (Cowens) and 1788 (Lauders/Laudehrs) mostly due to the work of others mentioned above.
The cover photo is three generations of Davies clan: William James Davies, John Henry “Jonty” Davies, and William Frankston Davies (circa 1955).
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