Reproduced by kind permission of The Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton & Hove

Brighton and Beyond

A History of the Cowley Family

This page contains links to all the things that you wanted to know about the Cowley family - and probably a lot of things that you didn’t!  Seriously, the links below will take you to some of the background information and to some of the more interesting bits of  our family history.
The business founded by Alfred James Bagnall in Leicester
The hotel in Shrewsbury run by the Marshall side of the family.
A collection of photographs of family members past and present and other bits and pieces.
The bakery business run by Francis Cowley (b 1806) and his descendants.
A look at our links with Brighton.
History and photographs of the Cowley family association with farming in Brighton and London.
The book presented to James Priestnall Woolley in 1830.
 Page updated - 3 January 2012
© Peter Cowley 2012