Owen Owen

Owen Owen was a Liverpool-based operator of department stores in the United Kingdom. Owen Owen was born in October 1847 and died on Easter Sunday in 1910 at the age of 62. His family were hill farmers at the westernmost tip of Montgomeryshire in the hills south of Machynlleth. Welsh agriculture had prospered during the Napoleonic Wars when imports of food were restricted but, after the war, there was such a severe depression that in 1838 the farm which had been their home for generations had to be mortgaged and the following year sold. Owen Owen was the first child of his father's second wife but she died after giving birth to six children when Owen Owen was only eight. His mother had a brother, Samuel, who needed help to run his...