Originally Posted on Facebook: April 21, 2020

Interesting Connections and a sad story

Henry James Snowden b. 1872 was Rachel Snowden's (Sargent) brother. In 1893 he married Alice Cockrill in a church at 383 Adelaide Street in London. The church was known as a Disciple church at that time, it is a Baptist Church today. It's still there at the corner of Adelaide and King - just across from where Isaac's planing mill and the Sargent family home would have been.

Alice's first child is George Henry Snowden b. 1894, who ultimately dies in WWI at one of the battles of Ypres in 1916 (pictured here in a memorial after his death).

Sadly for little George, his mother passes away in 1896 due to a post-partum infection three days after giving birth to her second child, Chester Roy.  Chester also dies two weeks later, due to what we would call failure to thrive. I have attached the death record for Alice and Chester, Alice is on the left page and Chester is on the right page.

Happily, for George, his father Henry remarries in 1899 to Eliza Pengelly. Interestingly, Eliza is his sister (Rachel's) mother-in-law's sister's daughter (I know that's a stretch!). The connection while not blood related for Henry is through Ann Lane, Isaac Sargent's wife.  Eliza was born in the same Cornwall town in England as Ann Lane our 2nd Great Grandmother as she is Ann's niece. The couple go on to have three more children; Walter, Elsie and Ruby. 

Henry James Snowden outlives both of his wives and one child and passes away in 1942 at the age of 70 with septicemia after the amputation of his hand due to a diabetes complication. I have attached his death record as well. This family is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.