Berners Beddoe Bowker

1882 - 1964  (81 years)

• Name	Berners Beddoe Bowker
  Nickname	Uncle Benji
  Birth	15 May 1882
  Gender	Male
  1820 Lineage	Yes
  Occupation	Olifant's Kloof farm, Carlisle Bridge, Eastern Cape, South Africa
  farmer
  Death	15 Apr 1964
  		Bowker Graveyard at ThornKloof Caption Note: photo by Flemming or Angela Pedersen Media Date: 1882 Keywords: Gravestone
  Person ID	I1009	master
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Miles Robert Bowker,   b. 25 Dec 1837, Tharfield, Kleinemonde, Bathurst District, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 23 Aug 1913, Oliphant's Kloof, North Fish River, Albany, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Emma Beddoe,   b. 1834   d. 2 Nov 1882, Olifant's Kloof farm, Carlisle Bridge, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 48 years)
  Family ID	F130	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Occupation - farmer - - Olifant's Kloof farm, Carlisle Bridge, Eastern Cape, South Africa  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  St Andrew's College Register 1855-1959: Page 113 Entry 1116 Berners Beddoe BOWKER bro. of no. 950; Left Dec 1899; b. 15.5.1882; Day. Form I-V; Boer War; Farmer; Oliphants Kloof, P.O. Grahamstown 1945. Colleen Keevy Meinert Grant writes " could the "Benjamin" Bowker actually be Berners Beddoe Bowker (commonly referred to as Uncle Benjie) who was a bachelor living at Mountain Top farm, and who was famous for swinging a jar through the air and slapping on the lid when Halley's Comet was sighted in 1911 and then claimed to have retained a part of the comet? My father knew that branch of the Bowker family (descendants of William Monkhouse Bowker) very well, so he once took me to meet "Uncle Benjie" "