Ethel FOWLER

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  General Notes:

Lucille Webster took a picture of Ethel's tombstone on May 31, 2000, at Winterton town cemetery. The stone reads, "Ellen Eyre Fowler, November 20th 1877, January 7th 1951 --- Ethel Fowler, August 3rd 1875, October 21st 1964."
The two sisters lived in the old Fowler Homestead, The Chains, until they died, Ethel with the help of a hired help after Ellen died. Evelyn remembers that when she was a child, Then, from 1956, Evelyn Harvey-Dew and her family lived in the house for a number of years. Evelyne writes, "Our family lived at 'The Chains' from 1956 . My fourth son was born there in the bedroom overlooking the garden where I could look out and see the yellow Crocus heralding the coming spring. He was the first baby born there for over a hundred years.His name Conrad Chatterton-Dew. The Dew family still live there." Evelyn remarried after her first husband died, therefore, her name being Harvey/Dew.
Evelyn's son, Nicholas lives there in September, 2000. He and his father before him have done much to maintain and update the house on the inside to make it liveable for today. Evelyn writes, "When I was a little girl my Mother used to send me up to the house with notes for the two elderly ladies, they dressed in long black dresses with lots of lace and side buttoned boots, the kind that had to be fastened with a button hook. They seemed to glide along as though on casters, very demur and lady like. I was very honoured because they always made a lot of me, giving me home made lemonade and home made sweets and biscuits. They often took me into the garden to look at the aviary where they had a wonderful
display of colourful birds.
"I often thought that I would like to live there but never dreamed that I would. Of course the contents of the house had gone when we moved there in 1956 but some of the old features were still to be seen. e.g. the pump in the kitchen and the old stone sinks, the enormous fire grate in the kitchen which took
almost a hundred weight of coal. My husband did an awful lot of work to make it comfortable for us to live in, and my son Nicholas has done much more since he has lived there. I think he is finding it too much to keep in repair both physically and financially. It is a never ending job with such old buildings, I do wish there was some way of getting support to keep it going. We all love it and we have such happy memories of our lives there." Reference: Electronic mail (E-mail) to Lucille Webster from Evelyn Harvey-Dew of Winterton, England, on September 14, 2000.