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Hi guys

Just to let you know the research is still progressing, I am in the middle of going over some of my earlier research before I put it on the tree

Darren

Thanks all this family getting bigger all the time

Hope we've got room for them

Hi Now that my Bowater line is starting to sprout, thanks for all the wonderful help you guys, it's time to seek other branches in the family tree and luckly for some reason a large numer of them were from the West Midlands area. So as my Bowaters take root it's time to seek the Edkins and the Colli...

Hi Thanks just checked it, a couple of errors and they are mine not yours 1...Charlotte Rutter was born 24 July 1805 and baptised on 11 August 1805 IGI 2...Death of Charlotte Bowater is 04 May 1881 . 3...Joseph Bowater's wife was Mary Ann Hills Sorry, these were my errors promise to try bettr next t...

Hi so here are 4 more names you can add to BCC tree Bowater Typhena Born to Benjamin Bowater and Sarah Bowater nee Smith 17 May 1753 at Womborne Married Richard Hill 29 January 1777 in Womborne Date of death unknown Bowater Richard Born to Richard Hill and Thyphena Bowater 09 July 1775 baptised same...

Linell know what you mean, I believe this came about as the Richard Bowater who was born to Thyphena and was the father of William Bowater, was baptised in 1775, yet his parents Richard Hill and Typhena Bowater married in 1777, this may answer that question. Also have an ancestor who has arrived in...

Hi all and thanks The Cabbage Hall birthplace is taken directly off Joseph's birth certificate, I wasn't sure if it was a place name or a street name. I also seem to remember coming accross mention of a Cabbage Hall mine in Dudley, but am not totally sure on that. I appreciate the links to bcc and ...

Hi all So here is my connection to the Bowater family of Clent and more accurately the family of William and Charlotte Bowater nee Rutter. As the will mentions several brothers came to New Zealand and Joseph Bowater was one of them. He was born on 26 January 1841 in Cabbage Hall Dudley, he and his b...

Hi all Only just having joined, and checking for common surnames, I see that the Bowater family is mentioed in the archives, I have a realtionship to the family of William and Charlotte Bowater (nee Rutter) from the Clent and Halesowen area, and with a major focus on the members who sailed here to N...