More Cowdery Ancestors March 2025

My cousin Dave Pollard has been doing some great work hunting down more Cowdery forbears.
He has unearthed our grandfather x 6 Nathaniel Cowdery (1649-1716) who was a Chandler in Uxbridge. I tried unsuccessfully to find out about him from the Chandlers Company in the City.
His elder son, also Nathaniel Cowdery (1676-1748) was the First Clerk of the Exchequer.
I located entries in the British History online archive-
1-September 1738-approval of Nathaniel Cowdery as First Clerk to Lord Halifax Auditor; and
2-May 1739-approval of administration of oath for Nathaniel Cowdery as First Clerk in the office of Lord Walpole Auditor
Lord Walpole became our first Prime Minister and arguably was the most venal using Treasury moneys to finance the building of Houghton Hall on his estate in Norfolk-all the records were lost so nothing could be proved!
Nathaniel Jnr clearly had a facility with figures-his Will dealing with bequests to his family of Treasury Warrants is a lesson in complexity.
He was our Great Uncle x 7. He left no issue so the Cowdery male line continued with Nathaniel Snr’s second son Gamaliel Cowdery (1688-1762).
Gamaliel was a school teacher and Sexton and Clerk of St Margaret’s Church, Uxbridge.
There are plaques to Nathaniel Cowdery Jnr and Gamaliel Cowdery in St Margaret’s.

St Margaret’s Church, Uxbridge

Nick Cowdery, Dave and I made a pilgrimage to St Margaret’s in May 2024.

Gamaliel’s son James Cowdery (1719-1782) was a butcher in Uxbridge, as was his son Charles Cowdery (b1744).

Cowdery family tree 24 has been updated by Dave

Dave is now working on Uncle Avron, the sea captain and our French connection as are his brothers; Colin is expanding the information on the Cowdery and Pollard family trees, and Roger Pollard is working on my Aunt Margaret’s Memoirs.