See also

Family of Thomas Holden Bowker and Julia Eliza McGowan

Husband: Thomas Holden Bowker (1807-1885)
Wife: Julia Eliza McGowan (1825-c. 1904)
Marriage 18 Oct 1854 Mowbray, Western Cape, South Africa

Husband: Thomas Holden Bowker

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Thomas Holden Bowker

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Thomas Holden Bowker

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Thomas Holden Bowker

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Thomas Holden Bowker

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St Mary's Parish Church, Almer, Dorset

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Manor Farm House, South Newton

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Manor Farm House, South Newton

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Manor Farm House, South Newton

Name: Thomas Holden Bowker1,2,3
Sex: Male
Father: Miles Bowker (c. 1758-1839)
Mother: Anna Maria Mitford (1782-1868)
Baptism or Christening: Baptised 10 March 1807 in Mitford Church, Mitford, Northumberland, England
Birth 24 Feb 1807 Mitford Hall, Mitford, Northumberland, England4
Baptism (1) 10 Mar 1807 (age 0) Mitford Church, Mitford, Northumberland, England
Baptism (2) 4 Oct 1813 (age 6) Parish Church of Saint Mary, Almer, Dorset, England
Parish of Almer
BAPTISMS 1731 - 1879
These records have been transcribed from the Bishop's Transcripts.
Residence 1816 (age 8-9) 'Manor Farm', South Newton, Wiltshire, England2
1820 Settler 7 Jan 1820 (age 12) Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Bowker's Party on the Weymouth
Death 26 Oct 1885 (age 78) Tharfield farm, Kleinemonde, Eastern Cape, South Africa
DEPOT KAB
SOURCE MOOC
TYPE LEER
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REFERENCE 1877
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DESCRIPTION BOWKER, THOMAS HOLDEN. DEATH NOTICE.
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ENDING 18850000

DEATH NOTICE:
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Name of Deceased: Thomas Holden BOWKER
Place of Birth: Northumberland
Names of Parents: Miles BOWKER
Anna Maria MITFORD
Age of the Deceased: 79 years 8 months 12 days
Condition in Life: Farmer
Married
Name of Surviving Spouse: Julia Eliza McGowan
Date of Death: 26 October 1885
Place of Death: 'Tharfield', Albany, Cape of Good Hope
Names of Children and whether Major or Minor:
Emily Atherstone BOWKER
Thomas Holden BOWKER
Katherine Mitford BOWKER
Mary Layard BOWKER
John Mitford BOWKER
Miles McGowan BOWKER
Whether deceased has left any property and of what kind: Movable & Immovable
Signed by J.E. McGowan Surviving Spouse
Burial Tharfield farm, Kleinemonde, Eastern Cape, South Africa5

Wife: Julia Eliza McGowan

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Julia Eliza McGowan

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Julia Eliza McGowan

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Julia Eliza McGowan, 1899

Name: Julia Eliza McGowan2,5,6,7
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 18 Dec 1825 London, England
Death c. 1904 (age 78-79)
Burial Tharfield, Bathurst District, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Sources

1M D Nash, ""The Settler Handbook"" (Chameleon Press ISBM 0 620 10940 8). p 47. Cit. Date: 11 February 2003.
Paul Tanner-Tremaine's Library, Romsey, Hampshire, England. Email: paul@1820settlers.com. Web: www.1820settlers.com.
2Tanner - Tremaine, Paul, "BOWKER 1820 GEDCOM" (http://www.geocities.com/settlers1820).
http://www.geocities.com/settlers1820. Web: http://www.geocities.com/settlers1820.
3M D Nash, ""The Settler Handbook"" (Chameleon Press ISBM 0 620 10940 8).
Paul Tanner-Tremaine's Library, Romsey, Hampshire, England. Email: paul@1820settlers.com. Web: www.1820settlers.com.
4"Baptism Records - 1813, Parish of Almer, Dorset".
5Morse Jones, E, ""Roll of the British Settlers in South Africa"" (A.A. Balkema / Cape Town).
Port Alfred Library.
6Thorpe, C, ""Tharfield - An Eastern Cape Farm"".
Paul Tanner-Tremaine's Library, Romsey, Hampshire, England. Email: paul@1820settlers.com. Web: www.1820settlers.com.
7Ivan Mitford-Barberton & Violet White, ""Some Frontier Families"" (1968, Human & Rousseau Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa).
Paul Tanner-Tremaine's Library, Romsey, Hampshire, England. Email: paul@1820settlers.com. Web: www.1820settlers.com.