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Hi out there

Wondering if anyone can do any look ups for me for Christopher Bowles born in 1839 in Norfolk, Great Yarmouth before I sign up for more credits. I have the 1881 census which states he was a rigger living in Kirkdale, Lancs with his wife Annie and family. I am trying to find his family through the census can anyone help.

Midgei

Hi

a possible

1841 census
HO107; Piece 794; Book: 5; Civil Parish: Great Yarmouth; County: Norfolk; Enumeration District: 14; Folio: 32; Page: 18

living at Row 79, Great Yarmouth
with
William Carr age 39 - Mariner -
Ann Carr age 39
William Carr 16
Christopher Bowles 4

1851 census Row 70 Gt Yarmouth
HO107; Piece: 1806; Folio: 98; Page: 28
Name Age
Row 79 Gt Yarmouth
William Carr 49 mariner b Norfolk, Gorleston?
Ann Carr 48 b Norfolk Clipsby
Christopher Bowles 14 nephew b Gt Yarmouth

no sign in 1861 yet
at Row 79
no longer with the Carr's in 1861
RG9; Piece: 1190; Folio: 37; Page: 30
Name Age
William Carr 59
Ann Carr 59
Harriet Sterry 43
Sophia Sterry 15
John Sterry 11
Josiah Sterry 9
Henry Sterry 7

Sterry family are boarders

Simone x

Hi Simone

thanks very much for your look up that is a great help - much apprecitated

Midgei

Hi Midgei,

Just wondering if you had any of the birth certs of Christophers children, to perhaps find Annie's maiden name, then maybe a marriage for Christopher and Annie,

I have looked at the 1881 details and saw that Annie was born Runcorn and the children were born Birkenhead, and the youngest born Liverpool 1880/1.

This could be Mary Ann's birth registration.

Name: Mary Ann Bowles
Year of Registration: 1876
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Birkenhead (1861-1998)
County: Cheshire, Merseyside
Volume: 8a
Page: 493

Jan

Hi,
Just wondering if this is his marriage? The only hit for a Christopher Bowles in all-counties search, Mar 1871 to Dec 1873, when his first child was born. And, he marries an Ann(ie).

Marriages Dec 1871:
Baylis, Ann - Prescott - 8b - 1079.
Bowles, Christopher Thomas - Prescott - 8b - 1079.

If he was a rigger by trade, he may have been a ship's rigger and been sea-going. His birthplace, Great Yarmouth, was a bustling sea port in years gone by and it's likely the sea was 'in his blood'. It would explain his absence from the 1861 and 1871.
Cheers,
Dickiesam

Hi Dickiesam

Thanks thats the one had the info regarding marrige but not all the details thanks a lot a great help.

regards Midgei x

Oh before I finish off just to let you know that Christopher Bowles died in 1881 and Ann remarried in 1882 a William J Wilmot - at Edge Hill, St Judes in Liverpool - she didnt let the grass grow.

Best wishes Midgei x