The Bourchier and Bowker Pages
Discovering the ancestry of the South African Bowkers, and the English Bourchiers
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| 51 | Born and died the same day. Buried as "Charles, Prince of Wales" | Stuart, Charles James Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay (I1315)
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| 52 | Born around 1468 in Beningbrough, Yorkshire, England or 1467 in Tharfield, hertfordshire, son of Sir Humphrey Bourchier and Elizabeth Tilney. He had royal descent through his great grandmother on his father's side, Anne of Woodstock, Countess of Buckingham, the granddaughter of King Edward III. Humphrey Bourchier was heir to the title Baron Berners but died before his father, being killed during the Wars of the Roses at the Battle of Barnet. John succeeded to the title as second Baron Berners. His mother remarried at Sir Humphrey´s death; her second husband was Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. This connection made him uncle to Anne Boleyn as well as a member of the wider circle of kin and dependents around the Howard family. John Bourchier was brother of Margaret, lady Bryan, governess of the three children of Henry VIII. Little is known of his career till after the accession of Henry VII. In 1492 he entered into a contract 'to serue the King in his warres beyond see on hole yeere with two speres' (Rymer, Foedera, xii. 479). In 1497 he helped to repress the Cornish rebellion in behalf of Perkin Warbeck. It is fairly certain that he and Henry VIII were acquainted as youths, and the latter showed Berners much favour in the opening years of his reign. In 1513 he travelled in the King's retinue to Calais, and was present at the capture of Terouenne. Later in the same year he was marshal of his step father, the Earl of Surrey's army in Scotland. When the Princess Mary married Louis XII (9 Oct 1514), Berners was sent with her to France as her chamberlain. But he did not remain abroad. On 18 May 1514 he had been granted the reversion to the office of chancellor of the exchequer, and on 28 May 1516 Berners was sent with John Kite, Archbishop of Armagh, on a special mission to Spain to form an alliance between Henry VIII and Carlos V of Spain. The letters of the envoys represent Berners as suffering from severe gout. He sent the King accounts of the bull-baiting and other sports that took place at the Spanish Court. The negotiations dragged on from Apr to Dec, and the irregularity with which money was sent to the envoys from home caused them much embarrassment (cf. Berners to Wolsey, 26 Jul 1518, in Brewer's Letters &c. of Henry VIII). Early in 1519 Berners was again in England, and he, with his wife, attended Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in the next year. The privy council thanked him (2 Jul 1520) for the account of the ceremonial which he forwarded to them. Throughout this period Berners, when in England, regularly attended parliament, and was in all the commissions of the peace issued for Hertfordshire and Surrey. But his pecuniary resources were failing him. He had entered upon several harasssing lawsuits touching property in Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and elsewhere. As early as 1511 he had borrowed 350 pounds of the King, and the load was frequently repeated. In Dec 1520 he left England to become deputy of Calais, during pleasure, with 100 pounds yearly as salary and 104 pounds as "spyall money". His letters to Wolsey and other officers of state prove him to have been busily engaged in succeeding years in strengthening the fortifications of Calais and in watching the armies of France and the Low Countries in the neighborhood. In 1522 he received Carlos V. In 1528 he obtained grants of manors in Surrey, Wiltshire, Hampshire, and Oxfordshire. In 1529 and 1531 he sent Henry VIII gifts of hawks (Privy Purse Expenses, pp. 54, 231). But his pecuniary troubles were increasing, and his debts to the crown remained unpaid. Early in 1532-3, while Berners was very ill. Henry VIII directed his agents in Calais to watch over the deputy's personal effects in the interests of his creditors. On 16 Mar 1532-3 Berners died, and he was buried in the parish church of Calais by his special direction. All his goods were placed under arrest and an inventory taken, which is still at the Record Office, and proves Berners to have lived in no little state. Eighty books and four pictures are mentioned among his household furniture. By his will (3 Mar 1532-3) he left his chief property in Calais to Francis Hastings, his executor, who became Earl of Huntingdon in 1544 (Chronicle of Calais, Camd. Soc. p. 164). Berners married Catherine, daughter of John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, by whom he had a daughter, Joan or Jane, the wife of Edmund Knyvett of Ashwellthorp in Norfolk, who succeeded to her father's estates in England. Small legacies were also left to his illegitimate sons, Humphrey, James, and George. The Barony of Berners was long in abeyance. Lord Berners daughter and heiress died in 1561, and her grandson, Sir Thomas Knyvett, petitioned the crown to grant him the barony, but died 9 Feb 1616-7 before his claim was ratified. In 1720 Elizabeth, a great-granddaughter of Sir Thomas, was confirmed in the barony and bore the title of Baroness Berners, but she died without issue in 1743, and the barony fell again into abeyance. from http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BOURCHIER1.htm#Robert De BOURCHIER1 ~~~~~~~~~ from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/62492/John-Bourchier-2nd-Baron-Berners John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, (born c. 1467, Tharfield, Hertfordshire, Eng.—died March 16, 1532/33, Calais?, France), English writer and statesman, best known for his simple, fresh, and energetic translation (vol. 1, 1523; vol. 2, 1525) from the French of Jean Froissart’s Chroniques. Berners’ active political and military career started early when at the age of 15 he was defeated in a premature attempt to make Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond (later Henry VII), king. He helped to suppress the 1497 Cornish rebellion in favour of Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, and served the crown in campaigns in France and Scotland. He was involved in English diplomacy concerning Henry VIII’s alliances with France and Spain and was present at the Field of Cloth of Gold, at which Henry and Francis I of France met to pledge their friendship. His appointment in 1520 as deputy of Calais helped him to a stable income, ending the royal loans he had been constantly receiving. He held the post, except from 1526 to 1531, until his death. Berners’ translation of the French romance The Boke Huon de Bordeuxe, which introduces Oberon, king of the fairies, into English literature, is almost as successful as his translation of Froissart. Near the end of his life, he translated into English prose two of the newly fashionable courtesy books: The Castell of Love, by Diego de San Pedro, and The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius, by Antonio de Guevara. The latter was by far the most popular of his works. { this is the first and only mention I have found of Tharfield outside the Eastern Cape - Paul TT} ~~~~~~~~~~ from http://www.bartleby.com/209/42.html : - John Bourchier, or Bouchier, afterwards Lord Berners, was descended from a family of great distinction, which could claim kinship with the Plantagenets, and which had already furnished a long list of men high in Church and State. The Bourchiers had at first been supporters of the Lancastrian House: but had afterwards joined the Yorkist party, on whose behalf our author’s grandfather, Lord Berners (whom he succeeded), fought at St. Albans, while his father, Humphrey Bourchier, fell at Barnet fighting on the same side. John Bourchier was born about 1467, and succeeded to the title in 1474. Even as a child he seems to have lived at the Court, and was knighted in 1477; but, according to the growing custom of the day which no longer countenanced the complete separation of arms from letters, he was sent to Oxford, where, according to Anthony Wood, he belonged to Balliol College. After his stay at the University he travelled abroad, returning to England when the Earl of Richmond became Henry VII., with the Bourchier family amongst his chief supporters. It was a member of that family, Cardinal Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, who placed the crown on Henry’s head. In the following years Lord Berners distinguished himself in military service, and he continued as high in favour with Henry VIII. as with his father. He served under Lord Surrey in Scotland, and was employed on embassies of high importance. About 1520 he seems to have been appointed Governor of Calais, and there he spent his last years, employed at Henry’s command, upon the translation of Froissart’s Chronicles from the French. He died in 1532. BY birth, by education, by association and employment; as the head of a great family, from his youth a courtier; as the companion in arms as well as in letters of his kinsman, Surrey; as conversant not only with the learning of Oxford, but with the active life of the counsellor and the soldier; as acquainted not only with the languages but with the rulers of all the leading European states—Lord Berners was one on whose head all that was choicest in the England of his day seemed to unite, so as to make him in truth one of the most typical figures in an age when the chivalry of the past was linked, as it were, with the intellectual activity of the future. His work has precisely the qualities which such a training and such opportunities were likely to give: and it is perhaps not too much to say that there is no one who, without producing a work of original genius or research, has laid English literature under such a heavy debt of obligation, as Lord Berners by his translation of Froissart. From the abundance of French and Spanish romances he translated a few specimens: and he also made a translation from a French version of the Spaniard Guevara’s work entitled the Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius, or El Relox de Principles. As Guevara’s work was not published until 1529, and as no French version is known to have appeared in Berners’ time, some doubt may be felt as to the genesis of the book. But these works have long been forgotten: his chief achievement, and that by which his name must live, is his reproduction of the French Chronicle in a translation, which, by the rarest of literary gifts, has all the energy and verve of an original work. Berners’ work is an advance no less upon the laboured ponderousness of works which produced, in an English dress, the old chroniclers, than upon the more ornate, but fantastic and shadowy translations of the romances. He had the good fortune in following a royal order (which is enough of itself to prove a rare literary sagacity in Henry VIII.), to find an author between whom and himself—though separated by a century of time—there was a close sympathy of thought and interest. This was the first condition of success; but that success was made still more sure by the union of a romantic fancy with experience of active life, and of the pomp and pageantry that surround the great. Nor was Berners simply the laureate of chivalry. Faithful as he is to his original, we can yet trace his own feeling through his choice of words, and he is able to give us an impression of earnest sympathy with every phase of the amazingly varied scene through which the Chronicle leads us. We have seen how even in Fabyan’s Concordance of Histories, with all its roughness and coldness, the interest grows, and the force of the narrative increases as he comes nearer to the events of his own days, and more especially when he tells of that Government of London, in which he had himself borne a part. But in Berners we have got many strides further away from the monkish chronicler, to whom it never even remotely occurred that any words that fell from his pen should recall scenes of real life—of a life, heard in his cloister only as a confused and distant babble of noise. It is the very opposite of the mood of the monkish chronicler which gives to Berners’ translation those qualities that make it a model of style, simple, direct, and unaffected, and yet with a force and intensity of feeling which the most elaborate affectations of more laboured ingenuity would seek in vain to reproduce. The translation undoubtedly marks the highest point to which English narrative prose had as yet reached. It attains its effect by no straining after a purity of Saxon diction, which some are pleased to consider the distinctive mark of excellence. Like all the early masters of English prose, Berners was bold in his appropriation of foreign words. Occasionally he reminds us even of the perfect English of the book of Common Prayer in his harmonious variations between words of Teutonic and of Romance origin. But his style was far too flexible and mobile to be confined to the narrow range, within which are to be found the meagre currents that go to feed the beginnings of our language, and to which the pedantry of the Teutonic purist would confine the ideal of English prose. Lord Berners is a master of English style, then, partly because he found in his author one with whose subjects and whose methods he was in complete sympathy: partly because by the teaching of the university, the training of the Court, and the discipline of experience, he had learned to realise what he described, and thus to impart to it a force which no laboured art could improve: and partly because his intimate acquaintance with the Romance languages opened to him a wide range of words which he made no scruple of appropriating at his need. We are perhaps apt to persuade ourselves, in reading these early authors, that the harmonious charm of their style comes in great measure from their almost childish simplicity. The persuasion is more flattering to ourselves than true. Artistic skill like that of Berners is rarely unconscious: that it conceals itself does not rob it of the character of art. And the particular instance of Berners suggests a contrast that is not soothing to our self-respect. Froissart has been twice translated into English; by Berners, and again in the early days of this century by Mr. Johnes, a Welsh squire and member of Parliament, of literary tastes and most creditable industry. The work of Mr. Johnes obtained much favour from our grandfathers; but a comparison with that of Berners shews us at least to what a bathos English prose can fall. Let us take a few sentences at random, from Berners and from Johnes. First this from Lord Berners— “Wherefore he came on a night and declared all this to the queen, and advised her of the peril that she was in. Then the queen was greatly abashed, and required him, all weeping, of his good counsel. Then he said, Madame, I counsel you that ye depart and go in to the Empire, where as there be many great lords who may right well aid you, and specially the Earl William of Hainault, and Sir John of Hainault, his brother. These two are great lords and wise men, true, dread, and redoubted of their enemies.” Then the parallel passage in Mr. Johnes:— “He therefore came in the middle of the night to inform the queen of the peril she was in. She was thunderstruck at the information, to which he added, “I recommend you to set out for the Empire, where there are many noble lords who may greatly assist you, particularly William, Earl of Hainault, and his brother, who are both great lords, and wise and loyal men, and much dreaded by their enemies.” Let us next compare a few sentences (taken from one of the extracts which follow) with their counterparts in Johnes. This is from the scene at Bruce’s death-bed, as given by Lord Berners. “Then he called to him the gentle knight, Sir James Douglas, and said before all the lords, Sir James, my dear friend, ye know well that I have had much ado in my days to uphold and sustain the right of this realm: and when I had most ado, I made a solemn vow, the which as yet I have not accomplished, whereof I am right sorry: the which was, if I might achieve and make an end of all my wars, so that I might once have brought this realm in rest and peace, then I promised in my mind to have gone and warred on Christ’s enemies, adversaries to our holy Christian faith…. Then all the lords that heard these words wept for pity. And when this knight, Sir James Douglas, might speak for weeping, he said, Ah, gentle and noble King, an hundred times I thank your grace of the great honour that ye do to me, sith of so noble and great treasure ye give me in charge: and, sir, I shall do with a glad heart all that ye have commanded me, to the best of my true power: howbeit, I am not worthy nor sufficient to achieve such a noble enterprise. Then the King said, Ah, gentle knight, I thank you, so ye will promise to do it. Sir, said the knight, I shall do it undoubtedly, by the faith that I owe to God, and to the order of knighthood.” Here is Mr. Johnes’s version of the same lines:— “He after that called to him the gallant lord James Douglas, and said to him in presence of the others: “My dear friend, lord James Douglas, you know that I have had much to do, and have suffered many troubles during the time I have lived, to support the rights of my crown: at the time that I was most occupied I made a vow, the non-accomplishment of which gives me much uneasiness—I vowed that if I could finish my wars in such a manner that I might have quiet to govern peaceably, I would go and make war against the enemies of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the adversaries of the Christian faith…. All those present began bewailing bitterly, and when the lord James could speak, he said, “Gallant and noble King, I return you a hundred thousand thanks for the high honour you do me, and for the valuable and dear treasure with which you entrust me, and I will willingly do all that you command me with the utmost loyalty in my power: never doubt it, however I may feel myself unworthy of such a high distinction. The King replied, “Gallant knight, I thank you—you promise it me then?” “Certainly, Sir, most willingly,” answered the knight. He then gave his promise upon his knighthood. If we wish to measure the decadence of English prose in the course of three centuries, no description can help half so much as the comparison of these few paragraphs, sentence by sentence and word by word. The same lesson might be drawn from any page taken at random of the old and the new translation. Yet in 1812 the editor of Berners actually offers an apology for reproducing “the venerable production,” now that “the elegant modern translation by Mr. Johnes has made the contents generally familiar!” Perhaps we have recovered somewhat from the style of Johnes,—it is so much gained that we know that it is not elegant, but execrably bad,—but the grace of Lord Berners is something that we can never by any possibility recover. An affected archaicism will not bring us one hair’s-breadth nearer to it. 11 The translation was printed by Pynson in 1523 and 1525. The best modern edition is that published in London in 1812, with a memoir of Lord Berners, and an index." end of from http://www.bartleby.com/209/42.html : ~~~~~~~~~~~~ see also : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bourchier,_2nd_Baron_Berners and https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Berners,_John_Bourchier | Bourchier, Lord John 2nd Baron Berners (I113)
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| 53 | Borough Green, Cambridgeshire | Ingaldesthorpe, Edmund (I48)
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| 54 | Both he and his wife are buried at St Nicholas Church, Newcastle | Crow, Mitford (I535)
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| 55 | Boughton Malherbe, Kent | Wotton, Robert (I147)
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| 56 | Bourchier Bowker was one of the pioneers in the development of ostrich farming and farmed in partnership with the late Hon.Arthur Douglas M.L.A.at Southey's Hoek on the Fish River | Bowker, Bourchier (I1467)
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| 57 | BOWKER. (COMMANDER, 1845. F-P., 20; H-P., 24.) JOHN HARRISON BOWKER entered the Navy, in May, 1803, as a Volunteer, on board the CULLODEN 74, Capt. Harrington Dacres, flag-ship afterwards of Sir Edw. Pellew on the East India station; previously to proceeding whither he appears, on 2 Sept. 1803, to have assisted in chasing the French 74-gun ship Duguay Trouin and 40-gun frigate Guerrière into Corunna. In Sept. 1807, after a servitude of two years as Midshipman in the DUNCAN, Capt. Lord Geo. Stuart, and BELDONE, Capt. John Bastard, both in the East Indies, Mr. Bowker was discharged; but he re-embarked, in Nov. 1809, on board the AMETHYST 36, Capt. Jacob Walton, and continued to serve in that ship on the Home station, until wrecked in Plymouth Sound, 16 Feb. 1811. He was subsequently, until the receipt of his first commission, bearing date 7 Feb. 1815, employed in the Mediterranean and West Indies, latterly as Acting-Lieutenant, on board the UNDAUNTED 38, Capt. Rich. Thomas, EURYALUS 36, Capt. Chas. Napier, STROMBOLI bomb, Capt. John Stoddart, EURYALUS again, Capt. C. Napier, VENERABLE 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham, and COLUMBINE 16, Capt. Rich. Henry Muddle. While in the UNDAUNTED we find him engaged in co-operating with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia, and also in blockading the port of Toulon. On 28 July, 1815, being at the time Senior Lieutenant of the FAIRY sloop, Capt. Henry Loraine Baker, he was detached in command of the boats to cut out a convoy at St. François, Guadeloupe, in the execution of which service, however, he was desperately wounded by a musketball passing through the right lobe of the lungs. He invalided in consequence immediately afterwards; and, on 23 Jan. 1817, was awarded a pension of 91£ 5s. His subsequent appointments were – 21 April, 1821, and 26 March, 1823, to the NORTHUMBERLAND 74, Capt. Thos. Harvey, and BRISK sloop, Capts. Edw. Stewart and Adolphus FitzClarence, both employed at Sheerness – 1 Jan. 1824, to the TRIBUNE frigate, Capt. Gardiner Henry Gnion, stationed in the Mediterranean – 4 Feb. 1825, to the WINDSOR CASTLE 74, Capts. Hugh Downman and Edw. Durnford King, lying at Plymouth, where he was placed on half-pay in 1826 – and, 31 Aug. 1840, to the command of the SAVAGE 10, in which vessel he served in the Mediterranean until the close of 1844. He attained his present rank 17 Jan. 1845; and has since been on half-pay. AGENTS – Messrs. Stilwell. from https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Naval_Biographical_Dictionary#Bo_._._. per Gerry Keenen | Bowker, (G) John Harrison RN (I1282)
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| 58 | Brigadier in the Royal Tank Corps | Mitford, Edward Cecil Osbaldeston (I738)
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| 59 | Brother of King Edward V, Earl of Nottingham from 12 June 1476; Earl of Warenne and Duke of Norfolk fron Beb 1476 | Plantagenet, Richard Duke of York (I104)
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| 60 | Brother Thomas Knyvett. Sergeant Porter to Henry VIII. He acquired Ashwellthorpe through his marriage to Jane Bourchier, heiress of John Bourchier. Edmund's will, dated 24 Jun 1546, and probated the same year, mentioned his wife, Jane, and his children, but not by name. The will of Jane Knyvett, widow, daughter and sole heir of John Bourchier, Knight, late Lord Berners, deceased, was dated 8 Apr 1560, and probated Dec 1562. It included a record of an earlier legal document that mentioned her sons, William and Edmund Knyvett, as well as her son, John Knyvett, her heir apparent. Mentioned in the will were her sons, William and Edmund, her daughters and sons-in-law, Alice and Oliver Sheers, Rose Reymes, widow, and Christian and Thomas Foster, and her "cousin", Thomas Knyvett, her heir apparent (presumably her grandson, the oldest son of her son, John). Also mentioned were her "goddaughters", Jane Walpole, Mary Walpole, and Bridget Walpole, all unmarried, "the same Agnes" (unmarried and unidentified), Bridget (the daughter of Edmund Knyvett) who was unmarried, and Henry (the son of Thomas Knyvett) who was under 21. One of the executors was her son, William Knyvett. The "goddaughters" must be "granddaughters", since the will of William Walpole, son of Catherine and John Walpole, dated 5 Aug 1587, and proved 5 Dec 1587, in the PCC, mentioned his mother, Catherine, now married to Thomas Scarlett, and his sisters, Mary Houghton, Jane Ryvett, and Bridget Houghell (amongst others) | Knyvett, Edmund Baron Berners (I313)
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| 61 | Buried alongside Bertram (father) and Zima (mother) aged 40 | Mitford, Roland Bertram (I722)
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| 62 | C.B. of 22nd Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps | Mitford, Bertram George (I774)
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| 63 | Capt in HEICS | Mitford, John (I797)
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| 64 | Captain in the 85th Foot Regiment. Eventually became the Mitford heir. | Mitford, Capt. John (I477)
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| 65 | Catesby, Northamptonshire | Onley, John (I186)
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| 66 | Catherine Howard (c.1521 – 13 February 1542) was Queen of England from 1540 until 1541, as the fifth wife of Henry VIII who referred to her as his "rose without a thorn".[1] Catherine married Henry VIII on 28 July 1540, at Oatlands Palace, in Surrey, almost immediately after the annulment of his marriage to Anne of Cleves was arranged. Catherine was beheaded after less than two years of marriage to Henry on the grounds of treason for committing adultery while married to the King. | Howard, Catherine (I19)
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| 67 | Catherine of Aragon (Castilian: Catalina; also spelled Katherine of Aragon, 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536) was Queen of England from 1509 until 1533 as the first wife of King Henry VIII; she was previously Princess of Wales as the wife of Prince Arthur. The daughter of Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, Catherine was three years old when she was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir apparent to the English throne. They married in 1501, and Arthur died five months later. In 1507, she held the position of ambassador for the Spanish Court in England, becoming the first female ambassador in European history.[1] Catherine subsequently married Arthur's younger brother, the recently succeeded Henry VIII, in 1509. For six months in 1513, she served as regent of England while Henry VIII was in France. During that time the English won the Battle of Flodden, an event in which Catherine played an important part.[2] By 1525, Henry VIII was infatuated with Anne Boleyn and dissatisfied that his marriage to Catherine had produced no surviving sons, leaving their daughter, the future Mary I of England, as heiress presumptive at a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne. He sought to have their marriage annulled, setting in motion a chain of events that led to England's schism with the Catholic Church. When Pope Clement VII refused to annul the marriage, Henry defied him by assuming supremacy over religious matters. In 1533 their marriage was consequently declared invalid and Henry married Anne on the judgement of clergy in England, without reference to the Pope. Catherine refused to accept Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England and considered herself the King's rightful wife and queen, attracting much popular sympathy.[3] Despite this, she was acknowledged only as Dowager Princess of Wales by Henry. After being banished from court, she lived out the remainder of her life at Kimbolton Castle, and died there on 7 January 1536. Catherine's English subjects held her in high esteem, and her death set off tremendous mourning among the English people.[4] | of Aragon, Catherine (I15)
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| 68 | Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649[a]) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles was the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life. He became heir apparent to the English, Irish and Scottish thrones on the death of his elder brother, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, in 1612. An unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to a Spanish Habsburg princess culminated in an eight-month visit to Spain in 1623 that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiations. Two years later he married the Bourbon princess Henrietta Maria of France instead. After his succession, Charles quarrelled with the Parliament of England, which sought to curb his royal prerogative. Charles believed in the divine right of kings and thought he could govern according to his own conscience. Many of his subjects opposed his policies, in particular the levying of taxes without parliamentary consent, and perceived his actions as those of a tyrannical absolute monarch. His religious policies, coupled with his marriage to a Roman Catholic, generated the antipathy and mistrust of reformed groups such as the Puritans and Calvinists, who thought his views too Catholic. He supported high church ecclesiastics, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, and failed to successfully aid Protestant forces during the Thirty Years' War. His attempts to force the Church of Scotland to adopt high Anglican practices led to the Bishops' Wars, strengthened the position of the English and Scottish parliaments and helped precipitate his own downfall. From 1642, Charles fought the armies of the English and Scottish parliaments in the English Civil War. After his defeat in 1645, he surrendered to a Scottish force that eventually handed him over to the English Parliament. Charles refused to accept his captors' demands for a constitutional monarchy, and temporarily escaped captivity in November 1647. Re-imprisoned on the Isle of Wight, Charles forged an alliance with Scotland, but by the end of 1648 Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army had consolidated its control over England. Charles was tried, convicted, and executed for high treason in January 1649. The monarchy was abolished and a republic called the Commonwealth of England was declared. In 1660, the English Interregnum ended when the monarchy was restored to Charles's son, Charles II. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England | Stuart, King Charles King Charles I (I1313)
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| 69 | Citizen and Haberdasher of London. Purchased Little Stambridge manor. Arms: Sable, a chevron ermine between three leopards passant proper. Crest: On a mount vert, a greyhound sejeant argent, ducally gorged, lined and ringed, the line passing between the forelegs and reflexed over the back, or. | Bourchier, Thomas (I1229)
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| 70 | Combermere, Cheshire | Cotton, George (I184)
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| 71 | Copy of the original from the official Government files. | Source (S1886)
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| 72 | create a Baronet on 7 Aug 1661. see Burke's Landed Gentry vol II | Milbank, Mark (I1488)
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| 73 | dau. of Francis Fane, 1º E. Westmoreland, and Mary Mildmay | Fane, Rachel (I447)
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| 74 | dau. of Thomas Cornwallis and Anne Jerningham - issue 2 sons. | Cornwallis, Mary (I428)
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| 75 | Daughter and co-heir of Henry Powell | Powell, Sarah (I517)
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| 76 | daughter of Hugh of Essex | Anne of Essex (I1075)
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| 77 | daughter of Sir John Coggeshall. Also known as Elizabeth? | Coggeshall, Maud (I1076)
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| 78 | Daughter of Sir ralph Assheton, Baronet of Whalley Abbey and Lever | Assheton, Anne (I891)
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| 79 | daughter of Sir Thomas Charlton | Charlton, Agnes (I335)
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| 80 | daughter of Sit Thomas Prayers of Sible Hedingham, Essex | de Prayers, Margaret Countess of Essex (I378)
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| 81 | daughter of Walter of Colchester | de Colchester, Helen (I381)
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| 82 | David Bowker writes :"In 1720 John Bowker purchased part of the Dackham Hall property in Gateshead. John was the owner of Bowker's Chemical Works at Willington Quays, processing sulphate of alumina for the paper, glass and pottery industries." The Deckham Hall property was left to Elizabeth Dackham, granddaughter of Thomas Dackham, the original builder and owner of the property. Elizabeth married Henry Mitford. | Bowker, (A) John (I1046)
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| 83 | Death Notice. | Source (S1886)
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| 84 | DEATH NOTICE: MOOC 6/9/3469 R21314 Name of Deceased: Frances Martha FORWARD Place of Birth: Bathurst, Albany, Cape of Good Hope Age of Deceased: 97 years 2 months 11 days Widow Place of Residence: 'Woodlands', Albany, Cape, South Africa Pre-deceased Spouse: Septimus Bourchier BOWKER died 2nd March 1893 Date of Death: 2nd January 1929 Place of Death: 'Woodlands', Albany, Cape, South Africa Names of Children and whether major or minor: John Bourchier BOWKER died before 1929 William Henry Egerton BOWKER Alice Jessie BOWKER married Harry SPENCER Bertram Mitford BOWKER Frances Martha BOWKER m Maurice Walter GRADWELL (died before 1929) Whether deceased has left any property, and of what kind. Movable. Signed B.M. Bowker, Son | Forward, Frances Martha (I1057)
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| 85 | DEATH NOTICE: MOOC/6/9/ 1172 Filed 2 June 1894 Name of Deceased: John Frederick Korsten ATHERSTONE Birthplace of Deceased: Uitenhage Names of Parents of Deceased: John ATHERSTONE Elizabeth ATHERSTONE (born DAMANT) Age of Deceased: 73 years 7 months Condition in Life: Farmer Married or Unmarried: Married Name of Surviving Spouse: Anna Maria ATHERSTONE Day of Decease: 8th May 1894 At what house or where the person died: Residence of Mrs. Perkins, Grahamstown Names of Children and whether major or minor: Ine, married to Henry Hayter Alice Grace married to Richard Sly Stockdale Mary Elizabeth married to Edward Smith Sybil Mitford married to Charles E. Perkins Anna Maria married to Arthur C. Barraud Hugh Mitford Atherstone Harold Atherstone All Majors Whether deceased has left any property? 20 Ostriches & Household Furniture and a fourth share of house at Fort England. Signed at Graham's Town 18th May 1894 Signed S.M. Perkins, daughter of the deceased. | Atherstone, John Frederick Korsten (I1023)
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| 86 | death ref Mar 1916 Kensington vol 1a page 161 age 83 | Bowker, (H) Elizabeth Margaret (I1284)
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| 87 | DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE ANDER ARGIEWE VOLUME_NO 6/9/15 SYSTEM 00 REFERENCE 3398 PART 1 DESCRIPTION BOWKER, MILES. DEATH NOTICE. STARTING 1839 ENDING 1839 | Bowker, (8) Miles (I472)
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| 88 | DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 6/9/108 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 1289 PART 1 DESCRIPTION BOWKER, MILES BRABBIN. DEATH NOTICE. STARTING 1864 ENDING 1864 REMARKS 1289 1/2. MOOC 619/108 R1289.1 Name of Deceased: Miles Brabbin BOWKER Place of Birth: Northumberland, England Names of Parents: Miles BOWKER & Anna Maria BOWKER Age of Deceased: 57 years Condition in Life: Farmer Name of Surviving Spouse: Barbara Petronella OOSTHUIZEN Date of Death: 28 July 1864 Names of Children: No Children Farmed at 'Chase's Grant' Signed by W.M. BOWKER, Brother who farmed at 'Doornkloof'. | Bowker, Miles Brabbin (I1008)
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| 89 | DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 6/9/154 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 2591 PART 1 DESCRIPTION BOWKER, WILLIAM MONKHOUSE. DEATH NOTICE. STARTING 18760000 ENDING 18760000 DEATH NOTICE: MOOC6/9/134 R2591 Name of Deceased: William Monkhouse BOWKER Place of Birth: England Parents of Deceased: Miles BOWKER Anna Maria BOWKER Age at Death: 73 years Married Date of Death: 3rd February 1876 Place of Death: 'Tharkloof', Albany, Cape of Good Hope Names of Children: Miles Robert BOWKER Nellie Johanna CURRIE Anna Maria CLOETE Mary Elizabeth MORTON Wilhelmina CURRIE Hester Francina BOWKER Minor Signed by M.R. BOWKER | Bowker, William Monkhouse (I1007)
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| 90 | DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 6/9/226 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 1877 PART 1 DESCRIPTION BOWKER, THOMAS HOLDEN. DEATH NOTICE. STARTING 18850000 ENDING 18850000 DEATH NOTICE: 6/9/226 R1877 Name of Deceased: Thomas Holden BOWKER Place of Birth: Northumberland Names of Parents: Miles BOWKER Anna Maria MITFORD Age of the Deceased: 79 years 8 months 12 days Condition in Life: Farmer Married Name of Surviving Spouse: Julia Eliza McGowan Date of Death: 26 October 1885 Place of Death: 'Tharfield', Albany, Cape of Good Hope Names of Children and whether Major or Minor: Emily Atherstone BOWKER Thomas Holden BOWKER Katherine Mitford BOWKER Mary Layard BOWKER John Mitford BOWKER Miles McGowan BOWKER Whether deceased has left any property and of what kind: Movable & Immovable Signed by J.E. McGowan Surviving Spouse | Bowker, Thomas Holden (I1009)
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| 91 | DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 6/9/294 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 1114 PART 1 DESCRIPTION BOWKER, BOURCHIER. DEATH NOTICE. STARTING 18910000 ENDING 18910000 DEATH NOTICE: MOOC 6/9/294 R1114 Name of Deceased: Bouchier BOWKER Place of Birth: Grahamstown, Cape of Good Hope Names of Parents: Father: John Mitford BOWKER Mother: Mary Anne BOWKER Age of Deceased 46 years 3 months Married Name of Surviving Spouse: Charlotte Jemima HILLIER Condition in Life: Farmer Name of Pre-Deceased Spouse and approximate Date of Death: Jane DUTHIE 22 August 1884 Date of Death: 24 May 1891 Place of Death: Grahamstown Hospital, Grahamstown Names of Children and whether Major or Minor: Jane Caroline BOWKER (From First Marriage) Thomas Bouchier BOWKER (From Second Marriage) Reginald Bouchier BOWKER (From Second Marriage) Whether deceased has left any property, and of what kind: Movable & Immovable Signed: C.M. BOWKER, Surviving Spouse | Bowker, Bourchier (I1467)
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| 92 | DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 6/9/308 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 2005 PART 1 DESCRIPTION BOWKER, ROBERT MILFORD. DEATH NOTICE. STARTING 18920000 ENDING 18920000 DEATH NOTICE: MOOC 6/9/308 R2995 Name of the Deceased: Robert Mitford BOWKER Place of Birth of Deceased: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland Names of Parents of Deceased: Father: Miles BOWKER Mother: Anna Maria MITFORD Age of the Deceased: 82 years Widower Name of pre-deceased Spouse: Sarah Elizabeth HART Date of Death: 23 September 1892 Place of Death: 'Glen Avon', Somerset East Names of Children and whether major or minor: Ellen BOWKER married Robert HART (deceased) Ann Stretch BOWKER married James Scott PRINGLE James Frederick Fleischer BOWKER Robert Mitford BOWKER Effie Mitford BOWKER (deceased) married John Ward STEVENS Septimus Bouchier BOWKER William Henry BOWKER Sara Elizabeth BOWKER married John Mitford BOWKER Robert Hart BOWKER Oliver Osbaldiston BOWKER Miles Egerton BOWKER Signed J.F.F. BOWKER, Son | Bowker, Robert Mitford (I1004)
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| 93 | DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 6/9/330 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 1493 PART 1 DESCRIPTION BOWKER, MARY ANNE. NEE STANDEN. DEATH NOTICE. STARTING 18940000 ENDING 18940000 DEATH NOTICE: MOOC 6/9/330 R1493 Name of Deceased: Mary Ann STANDEN Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London Names of Parents: Thomas STANDEN & Mary Ann STANDEN Age of Deceased: 79 years Widow Predeceased Spouse: John Mitford BOWKER Died May 1847 Date of Death: 25 December 1893 Place of Death: Signal Hill, Albany Names of Children: Duncan Campbell BOWKER John Mitford BOWKER Miles BOWKER Mary Ann BOWKER married BOWKER Signed D.C. BOWKER, Son. | Standen, Mary Anne (I1016)
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| 94 | DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 6/9/340 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 1005 PART 1 DESCRIPTION BOWKER, SEPTINIUS B. DEATH NOTICE. STARTING 18950000 ENDING 18950000 DEATH NOTICE: MOOC 6/9/340 F1005 Name of Deceased: Septimus Bourchier BOWKER Birthplace of Deceased: Northumberland, England Names of Parents of the Deceased: Father: Miles BOWKER Mother: Anna Maria BOWKER Age of the Deceased: 81 years 0 months 18 days Condition in Life: Farmer Married Name of Surviving Spouse: Frances Martha FORWARD Date of Death: 2 August 1895 Place of Death: Bedford Names of children of the deceased and whether Major or Minor: John Bourchier BOWKER William Henry Egerton BOWKER Alice Jessie BOWKER Bertram Mitford BOWKER Francis Martha BOWKER married Maurice Walter GRADWELL Whether deceased has left any property, and of what kind: Movable & Immovable Signed: F.M. Bowker, Surviving Spouse | Bowker, Septimus Bourchier (I1011)
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| 95 | DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 6/9/340 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 1020 PART 1 DESCRIPTION ATHERSTONE, ANNA MARIA. NEE BOWKER. DEATH NOTICE. STARTING 18950000 ENDING 18950000 DEATH NOTICE: 6/9/340 R1020 Name of Deceased: Anna Maria BOWKER Place of Birth: Aboard HMSS Weymouth in Table Bay HMSS Weymouth sailed from England 7.1.1820 Arrived Table Bay 26 April 1820 Names of Parents: Miles BOWKER Anna Maria MITFORD Age of Deceased: 72 years 11 months 30 days ( should be 74) Widow Pre-deceased Spouse: John Frederick Korsten ATHERSTONE born 1 October 1821, Uitenhage, Cape of Good Hope died 18 May 1894) Date of Death: 24 April 1895 Place of Death: Albany Road, Grahamstown, Cape of Good Hope Names of Children: Ine Ann ATHERSTONE 1848 d 20 June 1940 married Henry HAYTOR 1842 - 1911 Alice Grace ATHERSTONE 1852 married Richard S. STOCKDALE Mary Elizabeth ATHERSTONE 1853 d 15 October 1939 married 1875 Edward SMITH Sybil Mitford ATHERSTONE 1855 d 1934 married Charles PERKINS Anna Maria ATHERSTONE 1857 married Harry Chalmers Anderson MORSHEAD 2nd husband Arthur C. Barraud Hugh Mitford ATHERSTON 1861 d 1939 married Emily Porter HYDE Harold Mitford ATHERSTONE All Majors. Signed by Sybil Mitford PERKINS (daughter) | Bowker, Anna Maria (I1014)
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| 96 | DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 6/9/42 SYSTEM 00 REFERENCE 8947 PART 1 DESCRIPTION BOWKER, JOHN MITFORD. DEATH NOTICE. STARTING 1847 ENDING 1847 MOOC 6/9/42 R8947 DEATH NOTICE: Name of Deceased: John Mitford BOWKER Place of Birth: England Names of Parents: Miles BOWKER Anna Maria BOWKER Age of Deceased: 45 years Condition in Life: Farmer Married: Name of Surviving Spouse: Mary Ann STANDEN Date of Death: 11 April 1847 Place of Death: Palmietfontein, Albany, Cape of Good Hope Names of Children: Duncan Campbell BOWKER John Mitford BOWKER Thomas BOWKER Miles Bouchier BOWKER Mary Ann BOWKER Signed by W.M. BOWKER, Brother. | Bowker, Lieutenant John Mitford (I1006)
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| 97 | DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 6/9/673 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 2220 PART 1 DESCRIPTION BOWKER, HESTER SUSANNAH. NEE OOSTHUIZEN. DEATH NOTICE. STARTING 19110000 ENDING 19110000 DEATH NOTICE: MOOC 6/9/673 R2220 Name of Deceased: Hester Susanna OOSTHUIZEN Place of Birth: Rietvlei, Cape of Good Hope Names of Parents: Father: Pieter OOSTHUIZEN Mother: Petronella OOSTHUIZEN Age of Deceased: 95 years 1 month (b July 1816) Widow Name of Predeceased Spouse: William Monkhouse BOWKER died 3 February 1876 Date of Death: 6 August 1911 Place of Death: 'Thorn Kloof', Albany Names of Children and whether Major or Minor: Miles Robert BOWKER Nellie Johanna BOWKER married Unknown CURRIE Anna Maria BOWKER married Unknown CLOETE Mary Elizabeth BOWKER married Unknown NORTON Williamina BOWKER married Unknown CURRIE Hester Francina BOWKER married Unknown CLOETE Whether deceased has left any property, and of what kind: Movable & Immovable Signed: M.R. Bowker, Son | Oosthuisen, Hester Susannah (I1017)
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| 98 | Description: Rev John Heavyside | Family: Lieutenant John Mitford Bowker / Mary Anne Standen (F468)
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| 99 | Description: Rev Thomas Ireland | Family: / (F493)
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| 100 | Died after 15 days | Mitford, Humphrey (I541)
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