Owen Family History

Muriel Rosina Owen 1919-1970 married Gerald Charles Gaskell

The Owen family goes back to Richard Owen, whose son, Samuel, was born in Weedon Pinkney, now Weedon Lois, Northamptonshire in 1793.  The Owens lived in Northamptonshire until the dispersal of the sons and daughter of Muriel's grandparents, James Owen and Ann Giles.  Most of them moved to Letchworth and Hitchin in Hertfordshire.

Below is the Owen family line from the marriage of  Muriel Rosina Owen to Gerald Charles Gaskell back to Richard Owen at the top of the list. 

The hyperlinks in bold below lead to the detailed histories of each individual

                  Muriel in 1938

• Richard Owen c.1755 (husband of Jane and father of Samuel Owen)

• Samuel Owen 1793 - 1869 (husband of Elizabeth Lines {daughter of Benjamin Lines} and father of John Lines Owen) plus children

• John Lines Owen  1824 - 1901 (husband of Ann Sheriff and father of James Owen)

• James Owen 1854 - 1904 (husband of Ann Giles and father of Rex Lionel Bert Owen)

• Rex Lionel Bert Owen 1894 - 1957 (husband of Dorothy Rose Turner and father of Muriel Rosina Owen, Flying Officer Robert James Rex Owen and Ann Linda Owen who married Donald Cecil Buchanan Griggs)

• Muriel Rosina Owen 1919 - 1970 (wife of Gerald Charles Gaskell and mother of Robert Owen Hugh Gaskell)

• Flying Officer Robert James Rex Owen 1923 - 1945

Surnames of other Owen partners within the Owen Family History are

• Ball

• Brown

• Castle

• Clark

• Downes

• Digweed

• Dixon

• Griggs

• Groom

• Hassidoff

• Killick

• Malling

• Miller

• Smith

• Gomez

• Symes

• Turner

• Thompson

• Underlin

• Williams

• Wright