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(J) Oswald Bourchier Bowker

(J) Oswald Bourchier Bowker

Male 1833 - 1896  (63 years)

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  • Name Oswald Bourchier Bowker  [1
    Title (J) 
    Birth 1833 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 17 Oct 1833  Bilton With Harrowgate, York, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation Railway clerk 
    Death 4 Feb 1896  Fulham, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Probate 18 Jun 1896  London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Bowker, Oswald Bourchier probate
    Bowker, Oswald Bourchier probate
    Picture Note: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1904/31874_222875-00237
    Keywords: Probate
    Person ID I1287  Bourchiers
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

    Father (G) John Harrison Bowker, RN,   b. 30 Oct 1792, Morpeth, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Margaret,   b. Abt 1800 
    Family ID F576  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • of the 12 Lancers, Indian Army. never married [1]
    • in 1861 he was a sergeant with the 1st Royal based in the District Yorks baracks, Gate Fulford, Yorkshire

      Never married - probated his effects to his sister Elizabeth with whom he lived in London (1891 census)

  • Sources 
    1. [S13] Ivan and Raymond Mitford-Barberton, "The Bowkers of Tharfield", (Oxford University Press, Cape Town SA, 1952), page 9.

    2. [S1879] Ancestry.com, http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1904/31874_222875-00237.