I found this on Ancestry:
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England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: George Cowley Or Richardson
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 1 Jan 1691
Baptism Place: Sedgefield, Durham, England
Father: William Cowley
Mother: Elizabeth Richardson
FHL Film Number: 91112
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Note that this is a baptism...so undoubtedly this birth was in 1690.
I also found that Joseph Erwin Cowley (1898-1944) & Leora Mae Fairbanks had
two sons and a daughter by 1940: first son b. 1927; 2nd son: Franklin
Clark Cowley (1929-1993) & 3rd child: Cynthia Leora Cowley (1932-2011).
Nevada, Death Index, 1980-2012
Name: Franklin Clark Cowley
Birth Date: 24 Mar 1929
Birth Place: Iowa
Death Date: 4 Jan 1993
Death Place: Henderson, Clark, Nevada, USA
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I am not sure who this is:
England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: George Cowley
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 17 May 1747
Baptism Place: St. Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
Father: William Cowley
FHL Film Number: 1752143
Reference ID: item 2
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Hope this makes sense!
Mary C.
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From: Michael Cooley
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 11:59 PM
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This will uses Cowley and Cooley interchangeably. The other day we learned
that poet Abraham Cowley pronounced his name Cooley. I'd never taken
Cowley seriously as an alternate spelling for our family but there seems
to be something to it. Probably not in the US, but in England. If John was
born a Cowley but pronounced it Cooley, and considering that he was
possibly illiterate, that would explain that the clerks, etc., would spell
it Cooley.
http://ancestraldata.com/Notes/index.cgi?1422669383+/ahnentafel/256/lineages/derbyshire_cowleys-desc.html
I haven't yet seen documentation that ties this George with his supposed
father, Wm Cowley, in Derbyshire. I half suspect this may not be the right
line. I wish I could find the Anthony Cowley who posted about his descent.
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