occupation

Housewife

dates

Born: 20 Aug 1881, Brookhampton,

            Oxon

Married: 1903, Newington, to Mark CHOWN

Died: Not given

residence

Initially Brookhampton, Oxon; later Burnham, Bucks

submitted by

Liz GADD (granddaughter)

related faces

Mark CHOWN (husband)

Background information

Ella May TOWN was the daughter of Emanuel TOWN and Martha (née COMLEY). Her father was the village baker. Both Ella and her sister Louisa Maud (who married Ernest SELLAR) helped deliver the bread by pony and trap to the local houses.

Ella played piano to the silent films at Burnham’s “Electric Theatre”.