Eliza Amos, 1820 Settler

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 57
• Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

Settler:
Menezes' party on the Weymouth

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Edward Ames
• Name: Edward Amoss

Notes:

National Archives, Kew, London
ADM 103/468 PART 2 Register of British POWs Prisons L-V, France, 1787-1820
Edward AMES captured from the Tixel 24 October 1810

Henry married Elizabeth Ambrose, - wife of Edward Ames 1820 Settler on 1 Jan 1803 in St Martin, Cheriton, Kent, England. Elizabeth was born about 1784; died on 19 Jan 1854 in Kariega, Eastern Cape Proince, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 19
• Name: Elizabeth 1820
• Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

There was a Richard BOWLES * 1784 Dover, Kent d. 1879 Grahamstown married to (1) Elizabeth (see below) * 1784 Folkestone, England d. 19 Jan 1854 at Kariega. They came to South Africa with the Menezes' 1820 Settler Party aboard the 'Weymouth'. They had the following children:

1. Esther * bet 1809-1810 Dover, Kent d. ??
2. Jemima * 5 June 1819 (I also have her as Jemima Weymouth which I don't think is correct as the birth date I have is from her baptism and says she was born in England and the connection to the ship Weymouth was only in 1820). She died bet 1851-1855.
3. Richard * 10 May 1822 at Rietfontein, Albany District d. 18 Mar 1851.
4. John * 4 Sept 1823 at Grahamstown d. 17 Jul 1904 E Cape.
5. William Charles * 4 Sept 1823 Grahamstown d. 14 Oct 1887, E Cape.
6. Joseph * 13 May 1826 Albany d. 26 Jan 1916 Grahamstown.

Richard was also married on 14 Mar 1856 at the Ministers Home, Grahamstown to Ann BOWKER born ROWNEY formerly married to 1820 Settler John William GREEN who died 21 September 1834, and Thomas Bowker (not related to Miles and Anna). She was 68 and he was 79 years of age. I have conflicting dates of death for her but the one date of 1855 can be ruled out leaving her death either in 1861 or 1865.

Richard's wife Elizabeth was also married to Henry AMOS * abt 1777 in
England and who died abt 1817 in Dover, Kent. They had the following
children:

Henry * 1803
Eliza * 1806
Charlotte * 1807
Rebecca * 1810 d. 25 Aug 1890 at Uitenhage.
Thomas * 1812
Sarah * 1813
Edward * 1815

Henry was a soldier in the Napoleonic wars and went missing and was presumed to be dead and as such was declared dead. His wife, Elizabeth, then married Richard in about 1808 and they had Esther. Lo and behold, the missing and presumed dead husband, Henry made his reappearance and Elizabeth went back to him and they had four more children before he died leaving her free to once again marry Richard, which she did in 1819 as above. Thus you have the large gap between their children.

Elizabeth's husband, Henry Amos, with whom she had 7 children, went missing in the Napoleonic Wars, so she married Richard Bowles and had a daughter. Then Henry Amos reappeared so she returned to him. They had 4 more children before he died. Then Elizabeth remarried Bowles and had two more children.

Settler:
Menezes' party on the Weymouth