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Issue Date: 24/3/2004
THE OWEN FAMILY
My wife's father was named Reginald (Rex) Kirk-Owen (1915-59),the prefix Kirk only being adopted by his father in the early 20thC.
Owen is a common Welsh name, so this family are difficult to trace far back in the Liverpool area - they were probably immigrants from the Welsh area in the 18thC.
A possible sequence is: Henry Owen, a miller in Liverpool may have been their father of Henry Owen. The detailed page has a speculative line back from this Henry.
Henry Owen, a timber broker's clerk, (b. 1816 Liverpool), married Elizabeth Quilliam (b 1821, Liverpool, dau of William & Jane
Quilliam, a cooper). Had 5 known children: Henry G. (1845), Sarah A.
(1847), Mary (1849), William Kirk (8/7/1850), Alice Helen (1862).
William Kirk Owen, a Timber broker, (b 1850, Liverpool), married Ellen Jane Brown (b. 1859, Chester), dau of George and Mary (Jones) Brown (son of Elisha, a watchmaker), had 3 known children: Frederic Kirk, Walter (1890) & Jessie. Frederick Kirk Owen (b. 1889 Liverpool,d 1951, BC).
Emigrated to Canada before the 1st World War.
Married Florence
Dolman, and had 5 children, Reginald, Peter, Mary, Helen, Pauline, all of whom live in the Vancouver area. The Brown family became Jewellers in Chester, and their shop is still there (1998).The Quilliam family descend on the female side from the Branthwaites farmers of Cumbria.
The Dolman family were from the English Midlands, early on from near Lichfield, and later Wolverhampton.
Expanded Owen Details Expanded Dolman Details Expanded Brown Details Changes: 24/3/2004: edited