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Bower
The Bower family were of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and London.
The archives hold details with reference to Settlements and trusts of Dr. John Seddon Bower and Edmund Chivers Bower
1808-1949:
The properties concerned were at Brampton and Melton in Wath-on-Dearne, Rawmarsh, Broxholme in Doncaster,
Wickersley (including beds of coal), Laughton-en-le-Morthen, and a house in Scarborough, all Yorkshire; Frodingham,
Bassingham and Gunhouse, Lincolnshire; Battersea Rise, Southwark St. and Newgate St., London. Other families mentioned:
Mower, Chivers, and Martin. Sheffield Archives Ref. LD 1655-1678.
EDWARD CHIVERS BOWER, Esq. of Broxholme, J.P. and D.L., for the West Riding of Yorkshire, later resident at Tickhill Castle, near Rotherham, only son of the late John Seddon Bower, Esq. of Broxholme, by Elizabeth, his wife, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Chivers, Esq. of Askham, York, bears a quartered shield, BOWER and CHIVERS, and impales in right of his wife, Amelia Mary, 2nd surviving daughter of the late William Bennett Martin, Esq. of Worsbrough Hall,Yorkshire York, the arms of Martin.
A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain ... By Sir Bernard Burke
John BOWER,a Carpenter, was born in 1664 at Sheffield, he married in 1693 at Norton to Elizabeth FRETWELL(1672-1718) who was born in Maltby in 1672.Children all born Wickersley:
- John born 1697, he married Ann Seddon. Employed in his fathers business
- Benjamin born 1698-1718. Apprentice to cousin Stephen Husband, tanner of Tickhill
- Sarah born 1700. Died at the home of Rev. Holmes at Hatfield
Elizabeth died 5th March, 1718 and John died 1st November, 1737.
Benjamin had a daughter Mary, born Nov. 28th, 1676, who married John Wasteneys, they lived at Maltby. His youngest son, Richard, was born February 26th, 1684,and married Ruth, the daughter of Mr. Matthew Purslove of the Grange, Maltby.
In St. Albans Church, a pair of grave stones dated 1714 of red sandstone with raised rectangular slab with additional
slab at its foot are situated south of the nave. Inscriptions to Sarah, daughter of John Bower, died 1714 aged 18
to son Benjamin, died 1718 aged 16
and wife Elizabeth (Nee Fretwell), died 1718 aged 60.
There is a plain slab to John Bower who died in 1737 aged 65
John BOWER (b 1697) married in 1725 at Laughton-en-le-Morthen to Ann SIDDELL. They had 9 Children, all born at Wickersley:
- born, 1726 Anne
- born, 1727 John
- born, 1729 Elizabeth
- born, 1732 James
- born, 1734 Richard
- born ,1736 Edward
- born, 1738 Sarah
- born, 1740 Rebecca
- born, 1746 Jane
TREETON/WHISTON
Thomas BOWER m. 1731 Treeton Catherine RAYNALDS. Children (born Treeton):
- 1736 Sarah
- 1738 Thomas
- 1739 John m. Elizabeth Jobson
- 1769 Hannah
- 1770 Mary
- 1772 Elizabeth
- 1775 Anne
William BOWER, b1736 Whiston m. 1760 Treeton to Elizabeth BRAMMER. Children (born Treeton):
- 1761 William
- 1763 Thomas
- 1768 Elizabeth
- 1775 Michael
- 1777 Joseph
Offsite reference to John Bower
Offsite reference to Bower of Braithwell
Freeman Bower, esq., of Bawtry and Maltby, co. York, was a member of the Doncaster Volunteers; born 15 Nov. 1732; died 29 July, 1786; a justice of the peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire, practised for a few years as an attorney, but on inheriting some family property he discontinued that profession. On several occasions he acted as marshal to his uncle Mr. Baron Perrott, when on circuit. He is said to have been a handsome male, and of an hospitable, convivial disposition.