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Personal data Alexander Bowman 

Source 1

Household of Alexander Bowman

He is married to Jean Collier.

They got married on November 25, 1791 at Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, he was 26 years old.Source 2


Child(ren):

  1. Archibald Bowman  1792-1842 
  2. Helen Bowman  1794-????
  3. Margaret Bowman  1796-????
  4. Betty Bowman  1801-1847


Notes about Alexander Bowman

1. Dates and names taken from the book "A Whispering in the Hearth - The Lives of our Coalmining Ancestors", cannot be confirmed as to being correct persons.
Dates and names taken from Scotlands People IAW the same book.

2. "A Whispering in the Hearth - The Lives of our Coalmining Ancestors".
Alexander BOWMAN, coalhewer at Halbeath (born 1765) married Jean COLLIER in Dunfermline on 25 Nov 1791 after Banns.
They had four children born at Halbeath ...
i. Archibald BOWMAN born 5 May was bapt. 12 May 1792; Witnesses Archibald & John Bowman coalhewers at Halbeath. He married Catherine PENMAN and had eight children. Archibald died in Dunfermline aged 50 in 1842.
Their children were ...
a. Alexander BOWMAN born 28 Sep 1819;
b. George BOWMAN born 15 Apr 1822;
c. Jean BOWMAN born 24 Oct 1823;
d. Catherine BOWMAN born 14 Jun 1826 who married Thomas BEVERIDGE in Aberdour on 9 Oct 1846. They had twelve children-- George 1847, Catherine 1851, Archibald 1852, Thomas 1854 (died young), Margaret 1855 (married William ARCHIBALD and had ten children in Aberdour), twins Alexander & Thomas 1857 (Thomas died young), Agnes 1859, Thomas 1861, Helen Bowman 1861, William 1863 and Robert 1867. Many descendants of this couple still live in Fife.
e. Archibald BOWMAN born 10 Jan 1828;
f. Robert BOWMAN born 26 Oct 1829;
g. Janet BOWMAN born 1834 and
h. James BOWMAN born 1839.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Alexander Bowman

Alexander Bowman
1765-????

1791

Jean Collier
????-

Archibald Bowman
1792-1842
Helen Bowman
1794-????
Margaret Bowman
1796-????
Betty Bowman
1801-1847

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Sources

  1. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1765 BOWMAN, ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD BOWMAN, MARGARET WILLIAMSON M, 20/10/1765, 424/60 303, Dunfermline Downloaded from Ancestry
    BOWMAN, ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD BOWMAN, MARGARET WILLIAMSON M, 20/10/1765, 424/60 303, Dunfermline
    October 1765
    Archibald Bowman Coalhewer at Urquhart had a son Born to him of his wife Margaret Williamson october 18th Baptized 20th, named Alexander; witnesses Robert Penman Elder and younger, both Calhewers at Urquhart.

    https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=People&surname=bowman&forename=alexander&forename_so=exact&from_year=1765&to_year=1765&surname_so=exact&church_type=Old%20Parish%20Registers&event=(B%20OR%20C%20OR%20S)&record_type[0]=opr_births
  2. A Whispering in the Hearth - The Lives of our Coalmining Ancestors, A Whispering in the Hearth - The Lives of our Coalmining Ancestors
    1. Archibald Bowman death in 1842

Historical events

Birthday October 18, 1765

  • The temperature on October 18, 1765 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: omtrent helder zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1765: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 25 » Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.
    • March 9 » After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
    • March 22 » The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
    • March 24 » Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
    • August 12 » Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.
    • November 1 » The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.

Christening day October 20, 1765

  • The temperature on October 20, 1765 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: donker. Special wheather fenomena: dauw. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1765: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 25 » Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.
    • March 9 » After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
    • March 22 » The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
    • March 24 » Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
    • August 12 » Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.
    • November 1 » The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.

Day of marriage November 25, 1791

  • The temperature on November 25, 1791 was about 8.0 °C. There was 48 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1791: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 25 » The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
    • March 4 » The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
    • March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
    • August 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
    • September 9 » Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
    • September 14 » The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.


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Source: Wikipedia


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