VOWELL, Florence May
Florence May Vowell was born at Westminster, London on 16 May 1875 and baptised at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge on 25 July 1875, daughter of Thomas Frederick Vowell (1835-1895), a warehouseman, and his wife Elizabeth née Weskett (1835-1916), who married at Chelsea, London in 1857. In 1881, 9-year-old Florence was living at 11 Montpelier Place, Westminster, London with her parents, 44-year-old Thomas and 43-year-old Elizabeth and siblings Elizabeth Charlotte 23 and Albert Henry 12. Her father died in 1895 and in 1901, her 65-year-old mother was a housekeeper at Hambledon House, Surbiton, Surrey with 25-year-old Florence as assistant housekeeper, to 47-year-old Stuart Fulcher, senior clerk to H.M. Office of Works. In 1911, Florence was a 36-year-old artist in oil & watercolour, living at 36 Warwick Gardens, Earls Court, London with her 75-year-old widowed mother Elizabeth, a caretaker, and her 49-year-old married brother, Herbert Joseph Vowell (1862-1937), a picture frame maker. In 1939, an 'artist', living at Yew Tree Farm, Henton, Wells, Somerset and was a member of the Ipswich Art Club 1942-1943 and exhibited in 1943, two works 'Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire' and 'Snow Scene, Oxfordshire'. Florence May Vowell died in the Norwich district, Norfolk in 1956, aged 80, she was unmarried.