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Birth11 Sep 1849, Yaxham, Norfolk
Baptism11 Nov 1849, Yaxham, Norfolk
Death30 Jul 1914, Montacute Vicarage, Somersetshire
Burial30 Jul 1914, St Catherine’s, Montacute church, Somerset
FatherRev William Cowper Johnson (1813-1893)
MotherMarianne Patteson (1812-1894)
Notes for Mary Cowper Johnson
In the 1901 census she was living at the Vicarage, Montacute, Somerset with her husband, three daughters and one son; she was 51 and born in Yanham, Norfolk.

Her death records is not on FreeBMD up to 1910.

Her burial (Somerset & Dorset FHS)

Day: 30
Month: Jul
Year: 1914
Birth day: 11
Birth month: Sep
Birth year: 1849
Age:
Forenames: Mary Cowper
Surname: POWYS
Place: Montacute
Dedication: St Catherine
County: Somerset
Country: England
Type: Headstone
Reference: 184
Notes: Wife of Charles Francis. Mother of Eleanor, Albert Reginald, Llewelyn, Gertrude Mary, Theodore Francis, Littleton Charles, Catherine Edith Philippa, John Cowper, Emily Marian GREY, William Ernest and Lucy Amelia PENNY.

Note that the above birth date is not the same as from family sources, nor does it quite square with the BMD inidces: pay for her birth certificate to solve this one!
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Will notes for Mary Cowper Johnson
Hder probate index:

POWYS Mary Cowper of Montacute Vicarage Somersetshire (wife of the reverend Charles Francis Powys) died 30 July 1914  Probate London 24 August to the said reverend charles Francis Powys clerk.  Effects £841 8s. 11d.
Notes for Charles Francis & Mary Cowper (Family)
The Norwich Post of Tues 17 oct 1871 had on p. 6 this notice of their marriage:

“On the 4th inst, at Yaxham, the Rev C F Powys, son of the Rev Littleton C Powys of Bradford Abbas, Dorsetshire, to mary Cooper, thrid daughter of the Rev W Cowper Johnson, Rector of Yaxham.”
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