===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH-L@rootsweb.com From: "Tessa King" <tessking@mweb.co.za> Subject: Grahamstown Baptist Church - Bowles Boardman Dixie Ralph Mills Hi everyone The Baptist Church Register is a large volume (an ABC Index Book actually) with each page divided in half so that the names of two families can be recorded on each page. At the top of each section is the fathers name e.g. Robert Webb and his wife Mary and then the children are listed beneath the parents. In some cases, where the maiden name of the wife is known, then it would be Mary born Smith for example. The first few in the register did not record the maiden name of the mother. Since there are no entry numbers I have used the page numbers instead. The handwriting is fairly good in this register, although sometimes the spelling is suspect! There is no mention of the name of the minister, but by looking at some of the marriage certificates I have identified the handwriting as being that of Rev Alexander Hay. Register of the Church of Christ called Baptist in Grahamstown CORY MS 16 850D.1 Vol 1 Minister: Rev Alexander Hay Transcribed by: Tessa King Page No. 011 Surname: BOWLES * Christian Names: Susan Fathers Names: William Mothers Names: Mary Ann Mothers Maiden Name: Not recorded [my note: BLAKEMORE - sister of Harriet May] Date of Birth: 31 Dec 1834 Where Born: Grahamstown Page No. 011 Surname: BOWLES Christian Names: Joseph Fathers Names: William Mothers Names: Mary Ann Mothers Maiden Name: Not recorded Date of Birth: 06 June 1835 Where Born: King William's Town Page No. 011 Surname: BOWLES Christian Names: Zacheria Fathers Names: William Mothers Names: Harriet May Mothers Maiden Name: Not recorded [my note: BLAKEMORE - sister of Mary Ann] Date of Birth: 29 July 1841 Where Born: Grahamstown Page No. 012 Surname: BOARDMAN Christian Names: Philip William Fathers Names: James Mothers Names: Elizabeth Mothers Maiden Name: DIXIE Date of Birth: 25 Nov 1834 Where Born: Not recorded Page No. 012 Surname: BOARDMAN Christian Names: William John Fathers Names: James Mothers Names: Elizabeth Mothers Maiden Name: DIXIE Date of Birth: 17 Nov 1836 Where Born: Not recorded Page No. 012 Surname: BOARDMAN Christian Names: Ebenezer Nevill Fathers Names: James Mothers Names: Elizabeth Mothers Maiden Name: DIXIE Date of Birth: 14 Dec 1838 Where Born: Not recorded Page No. 012 Surname: BOARDMAN Christian Names: Abraham Fathers Names: James Mothers Names: Elizabeth Mothers Maiden Name: DIXIE Date of Birth: 23 Dec 1848 Where Born: Burghersdorp Page No. 012 Surname: RALPH Christian Names: Harriett Fathers Names: Richard Mothers Names: Elizabeth Mothers Maiden Name: MILLS Date of Birth: 27 July 1815 Where Born: Wiltshire Page No. 012 Surname: RALPH Christian Names: Rachel Fathers Names: Richard Mothers Names: Elizabeth Mothers Maiden Name: MILLS Date of Birth: 01 June 1823 Where Born: Grahamstown Page No. 012 Surname: RALPH Christian Names: Sarah Fathers Names: Richard Mothers Names: Elizabeth Mothers Maiden Name: MILLS Date of Birth: 26 May 1827 Where Born: Bathurst * William BOWLES was married on 7 July 1825 in the Anglican Church, Grahamstown to Mary Ann BLAKEMORE and had 7 children: Louisa, John, William, Elizabeth Sarah who married Richard CURRIN, James then Susannah (Susan) and Joseph recorded above. Not sure why the other children are not recorded in the register. Elizabeth Sarah married in about 1860 just to give a time frame. Mary Ann must have died some time before 1839 when William married her sister, Harriet. Kind regards Tessa