Headstone 168
~ Sandstone ~ Gothic top, indented sides and concave shoulders, centralised decorative flowers
- Charles Fowler 1812 – 9 November 1889
- Aged 77 years
- of Polperro
- Born 26 October 1812
- Husband of Jane Quiller Fowler
- Father of John Fowler
- Parish Records show
- Buried 13 November 1889
- Talland Church Marriage
- Charles Fowler to Jane Lane
- 30 November 1834
- John Fowler 1835 – 4 March 1858
- Aged 22 years
- Jane Quiller Fowler 1813 – 6 April 1891
- Aged 77 years
“Charles and Jane Fowler were born in 1812 and 1813 respectively and brought up in Polperro as were several generations of both families before them.
They had two children, John and Mary Quiller (named after her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Quiller). Charles was a seafaring man and became a Captain in the Merchant Navy.”
More can be found on Headstone 168
“Polperro and the Indian Mutiny’ – Polperro Family History Society J5
Charles Fowler, a retired Master Mariner, lived on Talland Hill, Polperro. “He was born 26th October 1812, in Polperro, the son of John and Ann Rean Fowler (née Polgreen), a fish merchant of Polperro.”
His “daughter Mary Quiller Fowler, b.1843, in Polperro, married William Edgcombe, a farmer. She died in 1920 in Iowa, USA.”
Charles Fowler was the owner of the 78 ton merchant schooner Lady Eliot, of Fowey, in the 1850’s. 18th November 1864 – The Lady Eliot was “carrying coal from Neath, in Wales, to Plymouth, [when it] was sunk at noon by a heavy sea in a NNW gale while trying to enter Padstow harbour. All the crew consisting of four men and a boy, perished.”
The full details of the ship, its various crews from 1842-1864 and the story of its fate, can found in the PFHS Journal, dated April 2010.
‘The Loss of The Lady Eliot’ – Polperro Family History Society J16
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