Bowerbank - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Re: Bowerbank - Greystoke/Skelton

huggie53704 — 2011-01-28 00:03:36Z

Hi - any chance you are still reviewing these?

huggie53704@sbcglobal.net

Kevin Huggins

Re: bowerbank family

bmw4wahls1 — 2010-02-24 01:58:31Z

Good day Sarah,
My name is Michael Wahl and have a great grandmother named Margaret Bowerbank born in December 1843 at Bridge end near Haverthwaite, in Lancashire. She married Joseph Brown 22 Feb 1866. Her Family members were Dinah *1841, George Bernard *2nd qrtr 1848, Agnes *2nd qrtr 1850. Her parents names were James Bowerbank and Alice Pearson born 1814 and 1809 respectively. My mother told me that the name Bowerbank was derived from Bourbon who were royalty escaping the French Revolution. But if my ancestors's occupations were any indication of origins they were pretty humble. As you live in the general area where they were born and lived, I am hoping you may have more complete information.
I hope to hear from you.
Michael

Re: Bowerbank - Greystoke/Skelton

andrewdavison75 — 2010-01-08 19:18:57Z

Hi Kevin
I am also a descendant of Edward & Esther Huggins nee Bowerbank

My line goes down through there daughter Mary who married Thomas Graham

I dont know if you found the baptism record of Esther as it was a few years ago when you posted this enquiry, but I found it when I was searching through Greystoke parish records

Hope to hear from you soon

Regards Fiona

Re: Family tree back to 1500's

jshaw737 — 2009-11-05 14:33:49Z

dear eric i am stuck in my search at Isaac and abigail bowerbank born 1785-1886 husband and wife. they had a son matthew who married twice i think but can only find 2nd wife ann graves. they were my g.g.grandparents. If you can previde any more info i should be most grateful.joan shaw

Re: Family tree back to 1500's

andrewwalker10 — 2009-09-24 18:40:37Z

My grandmother was Annie Bowerbank from Leeds
I have traced her family to a farm near Keswick Cumbria called Lowside that was farmed by the Bowerbanks for nerely a hundred years until it was sold in 1910.
Any help would be appreciated.

John Wainwright Bowerbank

RockneJ — 2009-09-23 10:48:20Z

John Wainwright Bowerbank was the name of two, possibly three, individuals. The first, born about March 1857, was a son of William Bowerbank, born August 1832 in Stanwip, Cumberland, and his wife Hephizibah Wainwright, born May 1838 in Liverpool. He is found in San Francicso in the 1910 census. The second was born 23 September 1879 in Liverpool and died in Los Angeles 10 December 1948. The third, for whom only the middle initial W and the designation "junior" has been found, was born in New Jersey about 1903. This last is a fourth-cousin of my wife, Glennis (Wainwright) Johnson. Does anyone know of this Bowerbank family?
Rockne Johnson
rockjohnson@earthlink.net

Bowerbank Farm

RockneJ — 2009-09-23 10:24:34Z

Bowerbank is the name of a farm in Westmorland (now Cumbria). It lies on the east bank of the river Eden a quarter-mile north of Pooley Bridge. It was in the possession of my Smith ancestors until 1712. I have traced this Smith line in Wills which name this property back to that of Thomas Smythe in 1587.
Rockne Johnson
Sedona, Arizona
rockjohnson@eathlink.net

Re: Family tree back to 1500's

capgb42 — 2009-07-30 14:49:02Z

Eric,

Are you still willing to pass on some information on the Bowerbank families.

I am Rhoda Sarah Bowerbank's great grandaughter, I live in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. Rhoda married my great grandfather Charles York Nuckey and I have some information on the Nuckeys if you are interested.

Carol

Re: Family tree back to 1500's

barbbowerbank — 2009-02-07 08:20:49Z

I am from Canada, and researching my husbands family tree. The ancestor that came from England was John Bowerbank, born Nov 11, 1830 in Clifton, Nottingham, England. He married a Sarah Ion also born in Clifton, Nottingham England on Feb 9, 1837. They immigrated to Canada (southern Ontario) in the mid 1850's. Don't know exactly, they just show up in the Canadian Census in 1861. Do the names above, dates or locations mean anything to the line of Bowerbanks you have traced? I've been working 25 years, and can't get any further back than this.... My site is here http://www.painthorsewest.com/bowerbankfamily/
if you want to have a peak (its slow to load, but be patient...). You could email me at barb.bowerbank@gmail.com
Thanks

Re: John Talford Conway Bowerbank - Canada

barbbowerbank — 2009-02-07 08:01:57Z

Yes, this fellow was a relative of my husband. I have done some work on his family and have some documents posted. There is much confusion on the name, as there seems to be 2 John Telford C Bowerbanks in my family and we have records that seems to support this. I don't have a lot of time to do any searching, until I hit retirement, but if you want to see some of this I have a website I am slowly posting more info to. It is here (entry on John Talford Conway Bowerbank II)
http://www.painthorsewest.com/bowerbankfamily/getperson.php?...
If this is not a link just cut and paste into your browser.
main page of my site is
http://www.painthorsewest.com/bowerbankfamily/
Are you related to the Dorsey's or Bowerbanks?

Re: BOWERBANK FAMILY

rjlanc — 2008-12-18 14:31:25Z

Thomas studied Medicine in Edinburgh as did two of Sarah's brothers, Edward Turner and William Turner. Thomas became interested in homeopathy hence probably naming his children after Hahnemann.
Lewis Quier Bowerbank MD graduated from Edinburgh in 1835 two years before Thomas. He was the son of the Rector of the Parish of St Catherine and he eventually became the Custos of Kingston. There is a statue of him at the gate to Bellevue Hospital in Kingston and he is credited with revolutionizing the conditions in hospitals in Jamaica especially KPH.

Re: BOWERBANK FAMILY

sylviarigg — 2008-07-02 16:05:14Z

I am doing some research for my husbands cousin, whos grandmother was named dorothy bowerbank hayle, dorothys grandfather was born in Jamaica, and was named Thomas Hayle, several of their children have Bowerbank as a middle name, but I do not Know where the name originates from other middle names used in the family were Hahnamaan, and Rodvar Thomas married Sarah White Turner, so they are not his wifes surnames, have you any information that you could pass onto me. Sylvia Rigg

Re: Family tree back to 1500's

capgb42 — 2007-10-18 17:34:49Z

I am the great grandaughter of Charles York nuckey who married Rhoda Sarah Bowerbank, they were both born circa 1856. She was the daughter of John and Mary (Simmonds) Bowerbank. Do these connect with your family?

Re: Family tree back to 1500's

monkerisurman — 2006-12-28 05:45:14Z

hello just wondering if you had anything about Wm Monkhouse tree?

Re: BOWERBANK FAMILY

2006-10-25 01:32:23Z

Yasmin,
My mother's name is Melrose Bowerbank. My aunt's name is Phyllis Bowerbank. We are from Philadelphia St. Ann, neighbouring Brown's Town.

I live in Minneapolis, MN. I have a niece in college in Ann Arbor MI. I happened upon your message when I tried to assist her with a family tree. Interesting isn't it?

Anyway, what do you know? Wil you contact me?
763-509-9500. 513-532-5117.

Thanks,
Peter

Re: Family tree back to 1500's

geoffreywhite333 — 2006-09-23 08:35:28Z

I'm a descendent of Wm Monkhouse of Newton Reigny & his wife Elizabeth Bourbank b 1730. She was the gdr of a Wm Bowerbank of Greystoke, who could either be s of John or of Thos, but in any case looks like the ggs of Jas & Janet Burbank, who married @ Greystoke in 1581. If you have worked out these relationships, I would be very pleased to have yr info, & can send details of my family tree, if desired.
Many thanks,
Geoffrey White,
Stevenage, Herts.

John Talford Conway Bowerbank - Canada

puttersc — 2005-07-10 15:38:12Z

Albert Bowerbank

2005-07-03 16:21:09Z

I recently went on a trip to France to see the WW1 battlefields and I came across a gravestone in Tyne Cot cemetery with the name Bowerbank on it. It belonged to Albert Bowerbank, who was killed in action on the 22nd of August in 1916, I think. He was part of the Seaforth Highlanders. I was wondering if anyone knew anything else about him? It was quite odd seeing the name Bowerbank on a gravestone of someone from the war. Very unexpected. Anyway, if anyone does know anything about him, I would love to here it! Thanks.

Re: Family tree back to 1500's

2005-05-06 02:05:53Z

I am looking up my husband's family information. He is a Bowerbank, most of his family is from the Cumberland, England area. I am very interested in any info you could provide. I have only gotten to the early 1700's. This email address in the reply message is not mine, nor is the "author" name as you can see.
Please email any info to: genevrec@yahoo.com
Thank you so much for your help.

A Bowerbank searcher,
Gen Bowerbank

Re: bowerbank family

2005-03-29 08:41:20Z

Jonathan,

Thank you for your enquiry, my first sight of the reference to the savages was in a book on the crusades writen by Robert Runcie, and unfortunatly, with a large number of what were my remaing family items, and collected information (no computers in those days), this book and the family crest, which I obtained from an extreemly ancient volume on Heraldry I discovered in York, were lost during my time living overseas while serving in the Royal Air Force. I have little left now except for a copy of my fathers birth certificate, and a want to see the family tree put together, and perhaps published.

My very best regards
James.

John Bowerbank Dee

amshotwell — 2005-03-21 21:45:52Z

John Bowerbank Dee was born c 1820 in Newcastle, England, I do not know his parents name but I am fairly sure his maternal grandparents were Matthew and Sarah Bowerbank who owned a cloth mill in Stroud, Gloucestershire. around 1840. (I do not believe they were from there they may have been from Cumberland or Westmoreland) John B. Dee was married to Lavinia Smith and had 6 children Henry, Alfred, William, May, Ella, Ada. Henry was a Schoolmaster in Newcastle area. Alfred married Goergina Glasper and moved to New York in 1892. Any information on any of these lines would be great.

Re: Thomas Bowerbank (Hartsop) and descendants

Bruce_Dykes_Peckett — 2005-03-20 07:04:35Z

Thomas was my Gx3 Grandfather. My research is far from complete but I would be delighted to share what I have with other researchers

Re: Thomas Bowerbank (Hartsop) and descendants

2005-03-04 20:43:25Z

My father is Thomas Teesdale Bowerbank born in Carville nr. Durham in 1904, he is a 101. Is he the oldest Bowerbank alive? His father was Robert Bowerbankand his mother was Margaret Anderson (from Holgarth mill Durham).Robert Bowerbank's father was a Thomas Bowerbank (schoolmaster at Sherburn school). His family were originally from the Patterdale area in Cumbria.

Re: bowerbank family

2004-12-01 23:47:45Z

The post about the "demi naked savage" mercenaries called the Bowerbank is extremely interesting. May I ask where you found that information and if you have an image of the crest or coat of arms that you could possibly scan and send me?

I'm Melvin Ryan Bowerbank's 5th child of 7, and some of us have children. So as you can see the Bowerbank family is growing strong here in the states.

Thomas Bowerbank (Hartsop) and descendants

eric davison — 2004-03-11 18:58:12Z

I've been researching my BAMLETT ancestors and their families for some time now, and have a small group of Bowerbanks in them.

The furthest I go back is to Thomas Bowerbank, born Hartsop in Cumberland around 1834. He married Elizabeth Ann BAMLETT in Aug 1858 in Pittington, County Durham, and I think he died in 1889 (Elizabeth was widowed by the time of the 1881 census).

They had 7 (or more) children, all born in Sherburn, County Durham. These were Elizabeth Jane (~1860), William George (1862), Thomas (1864), Annie (~1866), Catherine (~1869), Robert (1870) and John Joseph (1872).

Annie married Philip PYBURN and they had a son Thomas Bowerbank Pyburn who was killed at Ypres in 1917.

If anyone has any links to these I'll be happy to supply what information I've got.

Re: bowerbank family

@@huggie@chorus.net — 2003-12-19 22:19:52Z

Greetings all! I am interested in John Bowerbank's daughter, Esther, from the Cumberland area who married Edward Huggins in the late 1700's. The Huggins' had a number of children and later moved to the Toronto area, but I'm not sure Esther made the trip.

Any information would be much appreciated!

Bowerbank Family

@@huggie@chorus.net — 2003-12-19 22:19:52Z

Bowerbank - Greystoke/Skelton

@@huggie@chorus.net — 2003-12-19 22:19:52Z

I am definitely interested in obtaining any information you have on the Bowerbank family. My Great, great, great, great grandfather (EDWARD HUGGINS) married ESTHER BOWERBANK on Nov 1, 1794 in Greystoke. I believe ESTHER was born around 1775 - her father was JOHN BOWERBANK and mother was MARY (Williamson?). I believe John and Mary had other children - John; Thomas; John (2 John's ?); Barbara and Matthew.

Specficially, in addition to confirming the above, I'm interested in the following:

Esther's birth/christening date (and location)
Esther's date of death and burial location
John's birth date - he died March 11, 1824 and is burried in Skelton Parish, Cumberland
John's father/mother (and theirs going back to, hopefully, the 1500's)
Lastly, my ancestors on the HUGGINS side also came from the Skelton area. While I do have a great deal of information on them, I'd be interested in knowing if you have uncovered anything pertaining to the HUGGINS name during your research.

Thanks for any help you can provide - Kevin Huggins (Madison, Wisconsin, USA)

Family tree back to 1500's

2003-12-07 21:52:36Z

A couple of years ago I was contacted by a family member in Penrith, trying to trace our family tree. Between us, and with the help of a distant relation, we got back to the 1500's. Most of our ancestors were from Greystoke, Penrith. We contacted branches of the family in Leeds, Northumberland, Durham, Edinburgh, and the Midlands. We even got copies of family wills from 1756. I may be able to help with some queries and would be happy to send on the info that I have.

hi!

2003-10-04 16:56:12Z

wow, this is so strange! i didn't know there were so many Bowerbanks! I don't know whether i'm related to all of you, but i'm from England. i'd love to know if anyone has a family tree of any kind, to see if we were related!

Mary Bowerbank

ntrat64 — 2003-07-18 10:19:54Z

I am looking for any information on a Mary Bowerbank. She married my 3 x Great Grandfather Richard John Relph (about 1840) in Cumbria, Lakes District, England. The only other details I have is that they had at least one child Joseph Relph born 23 July 1843 in Sebergham, Cumbria.

Re: bowerbank family

2003-07-08 19:15:49Z

Hi all fellow Bowerbank's, i reside in a place called Stanley in County Durham, and from what i can ascertain from certain members of my immediate family, my ancestors originated from the Cornwall area in the mid 1800`s. I would be happy to hear from anyone who has anymore information on the ancestry of the Bowerbank name.

Thanks ALL

Barry

Re: BOWERBANK FAMILY

YAZZIEB4 — 2003-06-18 02:14:50Z

Hi Kriss,
I am from Browns Town. I guess I am one of the ones you know. Let me know who you are.

Re: BOWERBANK FAMILY

2003-05-15 11:26:15Z

Hi Yasmine,

Where in Jamaica are you from? I know some Bowerbanks from St. Ann.

Please let me know

BOWERBANK FAMILY

YAZZIEB4 — 2003-02-15 15:24:37Z

Hi there!!

My name is Yasmin, I too found this web site by accident, I am originally from Jamaica West Indies. There could possibly be some relation to this family tree with other Bowerbanks who are from the Island.

I am now currently living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I would be so cool to have a family tree to show our children. If I can be of any help please e-mail me.

Bowerbanks

2002-11-05 14:04:07Z

h i to all the clan, its amazing to see so many Bowerbanks out there and to be so spread around the world, it wasnt till i came looking around the net i came across this page and found so many. Having met only one other Bowerbank who wasnt family very recently and that by accident, i thought we were a very small family evidently not.I originate from stanley county durham but now live in kent. Well i have a brother named barry and my dad melvin who is married to mary, my dad s brothers are dennis,fred,alan and sisters are anne, linda and enid, my grandfather was called fred and and grandmother is called lily. If anyone has a coat of arms i would be very interested in having it e mailed to me as much research has found nothing. Hoping your all keeping ok if anyone is interested they can e mail me for any more information if required or just to get in touch.
bye for now
paul

Re: bowerbank family

james_bowerbanks — 2002-09-02 13:37:08Z

Melvin,

I hope you don`t mind me replying to your email, but, as you can see from the sirname, there sems to be a connection. I have been looking for family connections and keep returning to the bowerbank name. I have been able to trace"loosley" the family name back to the second crusades, when a group of "demi naked savages" were employed as mercenaries, these were the Bowerbank, The family crest is a red shield with an inverted sable (silver) chevron (stripe) and three sable cups beneath, the shield should be surmounted by a demi naked savage, carrying a club, with laurel wreath to head and waist, the "savage" should only be visible from the waist up. The family seems to have come to prominrnce while based in the north and north east, where at one time there was a Bowerbank Hall though I believe that this fell into ruin some time ago. The family seems to have had interests in property, industry and mining throught the Northumbria, Cumbria and Durham areas, Particularly in Bowburn, Coxoe, Penrith,
My particular interest within the "Family" is a James Scott Bowerbank(s), who was a colector of "items of interest" throught the 1800s. I am particularly interested in any of his notebooks, catalogues etc. You may also like to take a look at Tropaeum bowerbankii. For my sins I originate from County Durham , My Fathers name was Thomas, and my Mothers Vera, though they both died while I was quite young.
I hope that this is of use and interest to you
James

Re: bowerbank family

james_bowerbanks — 2002-09-02 13:22:07Z

Sarah,

I hope you don`t mind me replying to your email, but, as you can see from the sirname, there sems to be a connection. I have been looking for family connections and keep returning to the bowerbank name. I have been able to trace"loosley" the family name back to the second crusades, when a group of "demi naked savages" were employed as mercenaries, these were the Bowerbank, The family crest is a red shield with an inverted sable (silver) chevron (stripe) and three sable cups beneath, the shield should be surmounted by a demi naked savage, carrying a club, with laurel wreath to head and waist, the "savage" should only be visible from the waist up. The family seems to have come to prominrnce while based in the north and north east, where at one time there was a Bowerbank Hall though I believe that this fell into ruin some time ago. The family seems to have had interests in property, industry and mining throught the Northumbria, Cumbria and Durham areas, Particularly in Bowburn, Coxoe, Penrith,
My particular interest within the "Family" is a James Scott Bowerbank(s), who was a colector of "items of interest" throught the 1800s. I am particularly interested in any of his notebooks, catalogues etc. You may also like to take a look at Tropaeum bowerbankii. For my sins I originate from County Durham , My Fathers name was Thomas, and my Mothers Vera, though they both died while I was quite young.
I hope that this is of use and interest to you
Jmes

Re: bowerbank family

2002-08-19 19:06:11Z

Hi, my maiden name is Bowerbank, my father's name was Joseph Bowerbank and he came from Darlington, County Durham in England. I now reside in Richmond, North Yorkshire England. I did'nt realise that they were Bowerbanks in California. I would be pleased to learn if we have any connection or not?

Mildred Emmerson

Re: bowerbank family

2002-06-24 08:15:49Z

Hi Sarah, I'm afraid I can't help you as I haven't found any links to my maiden name in the Preston area. Like you I've been dabbling in the family surname for a few years now. I have a few clues to my father's family who lived in Leeds, and my grandfather's family who came from Cumberland. There are lots of links to the name there but they are nearly all in the 18th century - and so I have a bit of a gap to fill. I hope in a couple of year's time I'll have more time to search, and the latest census, which will help me enormously, will be easier to access.
Good luck with the search!

Re: bowerbank family

MISSSBOWERBANK — 2002-06-19 23:16:39Z

Hi Mervin,

My name is Sarah Bowerbank, i live in England (preston Lancashire) i am like you i'm trying to trace my family tree, and find out the origin of my Surname. I been trying to link the Bowerbank name now fro several years, wiht no sucess.

My father was Neil Norman Bowerbank, who passed away in 1997 at the age of 44. My grand father, died in 1984 at the age of 76, he was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. My father had a half brother called Alan, maybe how in his early to mid 50's, details are very sketchy.

I would like to recieve emails from anyone who could aid me in my quest to trace my family tree, and origin of the Bowerbank Surname.

Thanks

Sarah

Bowerbank

Marbwrbnk — 2002-05-19 09:23:13Z

Hi my name is Marilyn Bowerbank. I married Ian Bowerbank
in 1973
His father Norman James Bowerbank came from Edinburgh but I believe all his relatives ar burried in Greystokes Church in Penrith U.k
His sister Mable emigrated to Australia and his son Gary now lives in Norway We ourselves live in Yorkshire
I would love to track down any other members of our clan

family connections

2000-11-14 01:43:19Z

I hadn't realised the Bowerbank clan had spread so far! I'm afraid I don't have very much information to pass on, except what is contained in my original message, but hope to remedy that during the course of the next year. When I do, I'll keep in touch with this website.

bowerbank family

2000-11-13 23:46:06Z

hello nice to see there are still Bowerbanks inthe old country. I am a 5th generation Bowerbank and currenty reside in California. There are branches of Bowerbanks living in Utah,Idaho, andthrough the Pacific Northwest{Canada} It would be great to merge our data. Especially from our roots in England. Please reply

Family

2000-08-16 09:06:45Z

Hi - I found the message-board by accident when browsing - I'm just thinking of retiring and will spend my time researching my family history so was pleased to see that there are other Bowerbanks out there with the same ideas. I was born in Leeds in 1942, my father was Lewis Bowerbank (a name also given to his uncle). His fathers name was John, who moved to Leeds from Birkenhead, but the family originally came from Greystoke in Cumbria. I don't have any siblings. Apart from the fact that my father had two brothers, Wilf and Ernest, and a cousin, Harry, this is as far as I know of my family tree. Do you have any relatives from the these areas? I don't have much time for searching at the moment - I have a full-time job, but come retirement I hope to begin in earnest.

Bowerbank in the 20th Century

2000-04-20 03:45:07Z

Hello relatives. I hope that you are all well and that you recognise the importance of building our family tree. Start adding your stories and history. If any of you have the family coat-of-arms or crest/shield could you please e-mail it to me. I'm 23, born in Walthamstow, London (UK) in 1976 on November the 8th. I have two older brothers and a sister. My father is Nigel Bowerbank, his Father is Kenneth Bowerbank. Send me an e-mail. Stay strong and healthy guys.