Meet my family from Cowley

Meet my family from Cowley

Will Mundy introduces his Oxfordshire ancestors in family photos including VE Day celebrations

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Published: September 16, 2020 at 2:54 pm

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine reader Will Mundy introduces some of his relations, including a great great grandfather who owned a timber merchants in Cowley.

Greengrocer horse and cart
My great great grandfather William Johnson was a greengrocer. I love this photograph of William with his horse and cart.
Visit to the Tyndale Monument
This photo from the Tyndale Monument in North Nibley, Gloucestershire, shows my great great grandfathers William and Albert sitting next to each other on the left
Timber merchant yard
My great great grandfather Albert Organ had a timber merchant business in Cowley. This is a photograph of their yard.
Morris Cowley tourer
My great great grandfather William Johnson's first car, a Morris Cowley tourer
Model T truck
Henry Ford's Model T was the first mass-produced and affordable motor car, and Albert's company owned a Model T Ford truck.
Inside a timber merchant's yard
My great great grandfather had a timber merchant's business in Cowley (AT Organ and Sons) which made veneered dashboards for Morris Motors. Their son, Harold, is on the left.
Harold Organ
This is my great grandfather Harold Organ at Bullingdon Road, Cowley, Oxford
VE Day celebrations in Cowley
My grandmother Jean Mundy (nee Organ) on a family day out with my great great grandparents William (at the wheel) and Edith Annie Johnson
Young Jean Mundy sitting on a car
Here is my grandmother Jean Mundy (nee Organ) on a family day out with my great great grandparents William (at the wheel) and Edith Annie Johnson.

My grandmother Jean Mundy (nee Organ) on a family day out with my great great grandparents William (at the wheel) and Edith Annie Johnson

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