The Munros of Pinetown

Joseph Denton (Dent Or Goggy) Cowen

  Events in his life were:

• He was baptised on 5 Feb 1905 in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, England.

• He appeared on the census in 1911 in 31 Powerful Street, Barrow In Furness, Walney Barrow-In-Furness, Lancashire, England.

• He emigrated on 11 Aug 1922 from Southampton, England to Cape Town, South Africa, aboard the Walmer Castle.

• Joseph served in the military on 1 Jan 1946: Commended for valuable services to war.

• He had a residence in 1961 in 33 Honeyball Avenue, Discovery, Roodepoort, Transvaal, South Africa.

• He was cremated on 5 Jul 1961 in Braamfontein Crematorium, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.

Joseph married Marjorie Jane ( Ba) Whipp, daughter of Thomas Hodgson Whipp and Edith Ann(i)e Dearlove, on 3 Nov 1930 in Germiston, South Africa. (Marjorie Jane ( Ba) Whipp was born on 11 Mar 1904 in Boksburg, Transvaal, South Africa and died on 17 Jan 1994 in Anerley, Umtentwini, Port Shepstone, Natal, South Africa.). The cause of her death was Cerebral Haemorrhage.