Andrew Raymond Bowker

Andrew married Claerwyn Ann Wantenaar [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Michaela Ann Bowker
2. Justine Elizabeth Bowker

Julian married Annette Elizabeth Hart [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: 'Dunskye', Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Farmer

Notes:

St Andrew's College Register 1855-1959:Page 249
Entry 2703
Meyrick Richard BOWKER
son of no. 580; Left June 1920; b. 4.8.1902; Upper; Form IV - U.C. RQMS C.C. 2nd XV. J.C. Feb 1917. Mat. Feb 1919. Farmer; Dunskye, P.O. Winston, Cathcart, C.P.; died at Alice C.P. July 18th 1945.

DEATH NOTICE:
MOOC 6/9/12173 R1019
Name of Deceased: Meyrick Richard BOWKER
Age of Deceased: 42 years 4 months (b 4 August 1902)
Condition in Life: Farmer
Ordinary place of residence: 'Dunskye', Cathcart
Married
Name of Surviving Spouse: Mary Frances WHITE (Remarried 1937)
Place of last marriage: Bedford 1931
Date of Death: 18 July 1945
Place of Death: Alice Hospital
Names of Children of the deceased and whether major or minor:
John Meyrick BOWKER 30 September 1932
Julian Richard Meyrick BOWKER 18 October 1935
Whether deceased has left any property, and of what kind: Movable & immovable
Signed: Matron, Alice Hospital

Meyrick married Mary Frances White on 15 Dec 1931 in St Andrews, Bedford, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Mary (daughter of Bertram Egerton White and Frances Kathleen Hoole) was born on 29 Apr 1904 in Fish River, Cradock District, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 13 Jan 1989 in Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Waainek New cemetery, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Hugh + Dorothy Bertha Young. Dorothy (daughter of Frederick William Young and Jacomina Endrina, - wife of Frederick William Young) was born on 1 Mar 1906 in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 28 Apr 1978. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: 1913, Dunskye, Cathcart district Eastern Cape, South Africa; farmer

Notes:

St Andrew's College Register 1855-1959:
Page 69
Entry 580
Meyrick Brabbin BOWKER
Son of M.R.; Left Sep. 1886; born 1870; Day (scholar). Form II-V. 2nd XV; Banking for a year; farmed in Fish River area, and at Gaikaskop, Cathcart dist. 1894; died December 28th, 1938, at Dunskye, Cathcart dist. C.P.

inherited the farm 'Dunskye' at Cathcart in 1913.
Bought the Hogsback Inn in 1919 -20 from Mr. Holshausen. It was previously owned by Mr. Collins.



Baptised: 1870, Feb 13th
Born: Jan 20th 1870
Parents: Robert Miles & Emma BOWKER
Occupation: Farmer
Residence: Oliphants Kloof
Witnesses: The Parents & D.C. Bowker
Baptised by: Jos. M Cotterill
Source: Grahamstown - St Bartholomew (Anglican), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. Baptism register, 1859-1912, entry number 277. Repository: Cory Library, MS 17 776.

Occupation:
inherited the farm

Died:
MOOC 6/9/5212 R62561
Name of Deceased: Meyrick Brabbin BOWKER
Age of Deceased: 68 years 11 months (b January 1870)
Condition in Life: Farmer
Ordinary place of Residence: 'Dunskye', Cathcart
Married
Name of Surviving Spouse: Dorothy WILSON
Name and approximate date of death of pre-deceased spouse: Edith Brunette SMITH died 28th May 1935
Place of Last Marriage: East London
Date of Death: 28th December 1938
Place of Death: 'Dunskye', Cathcart
Names of Children and whether Major or Minor:
Children from First Marriage:
Meyrick Richard BOWKER
Miles Brunette BOWKER
Children from Second Marriage:
Nil
Grandsons:
John Meyrick BOWKER 30 September 1932
Julian Richard Meyrick BOWKER 18th October 1935
Whether deceased has left any property, and of what kind: Movable & Immovable
Signed M.R. BOWKER, sON

Meyrick married Edith Jessie Brunette Smith on 1 Nov 1900 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Edith (daughter of Richard Shaw Smith and Caroline Louisa Brunette) was born on 24 Oct 1868 in South Africa; was christened on 21 Dec 1868 in St Bartholomew's Church, Market St, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 28 May 1935 in Marine Hotel, East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Waainek New Cemetery, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Notes:

Edith Brunette Smith, baptised on 24 Oct 1868 at St Bartholomew’s in Grahamstown, died 28 May 1935. All her siblings carried the Brunette name. She was the daughter of Caroline Louisa Brunette (baptized 1845 at Holy Trinity in PE) and Richard Shaw Smith (1840-1912), a brother of George Bensted Smith who married Katherine Ann Currie. Richard was the only son in the Smith family who opted for business and not farming and as a result, he was fairly well-off … he worked for Mosenthals in PE and if the records are correct, he was a director of the company at one stage. He was a very kind man and when Katherine Ann was forced to leave her harmonium in Cathcart (there wasn’t space on the wagon) when they left for the Sneeuberg north of Graaff-Reinet, he bought her a piano, which was delivered to Highlands, their farm just to the west of the Lootsberg Pass. Katherine Ann played by ear and as a result, the whole family learned to dance the waltz and foxtrot to perfection.{Dave Glenister}



Died:
DEATH NOTICE:
MOOC 6/9/4624 R46141
Name of Deceased: Edith Brunette SMITH
Birthplace: Unknown
Age of Deceased: 66 years 8 months
Condition in Life: Farmer's Wife
Ordinary Place of Residence Dunskye, Cathcart
Married
Name of Surviving Spouse: Meyrick Brabbin BOWKER
Place of last Marriage: Port Elizabeth
Date of Death: 28th May 1935
Place of Death: Marine Hotel, East London
Names of Children and whether Major or Minor:
Meyrick Richard BOWKER
Miles Brunette BOWKER
Whether deceased had left any property, and of what kind: Movable
Signed: M.B. BOWKER surviving spouse

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: a Farmer

Notes:

Bertram was born at 'Table Farm' near Grahamstown.He went school at St. Andrew's College and was a great sportsman representing Eastern Province in Rugby, Athletcs
and Boxing. Later he went to Lancing College in London.
He made a great success of ostrich farming at 'Egerton' near Fish River, Cradock.
He moved to Bedford to be nearer to sport.
They farmed at 'Glen Cliff' from 1913 to 1934.
They then retired to Bedford where both Bertram and Kathleen are buried.

Bertram married Frances Kathleen Hoole on 30 Apr 1903. Frances (daughter of Thomas Toy Hoole and Francis Garbett Wood Wood) was born on 12 Jan 1883 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 4 Jan 1949 in Bedford, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Horace married Sarah Elizabeth Hart on 24 Feb 1897 in Thomas River, Cathcart district, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Sarah (daughter of Robert Scotland Hart and Ellen Tamplin Bowker) was born on 8 Jan 1869 in Thomas River, Cathcart district, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 21 Aug 1935 in Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Frederick + Jacomina Endrina, - wife of Frederick William Young. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]