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London and Middlesex / Re: Bowness and Bowness, is there a link?
« on: Sunday 10 November 13 11:39 GMT (UK) »
There does seem to be a link between Bowness & Bowness and those of Bishop Auckland.
Mary Bowness (b.1768) daughter of Thomas Bowness and Susannah Gorman married Thomas Bond. Thomas Bond became a fairly well-established fishing tackle maker himself and conducted business at Crooked Lane, and then later 62 Cannon Street, London. I am descended through Thomas and Mary's daughter Agnes Bond. Where the link emerges is that Thomas Bond's will of 1830 includes a bequest - "unto Ann Bowness of Bishop Auckland, widow the sum of nineteen guineas of like lawful money".
I knew Thomas Bond's father-in-law was a Bowness, so thought this was likely to be a relation but wasn't sure as this modest bequest was in amongst other bequests to servants and workmen, rather than family. It is also small in relation to the total value of his will (in the tens of thousands of pounds).
Mary Bowness (b.1768) daughter of Thomas Bowness and Susannah Gorman married Thomas Bond. Thomas Bond became a fairly well-established fishing tackle maker himself and conducted business at Crooked Lane, and then later 62 Cannon Street, London. I am descended through Thomas and Mary's daughter Agnes Bond. Where the link emerges is that Thomas Bond's will of 1830 includes a bequest - "unto Ann Bowness of Bishop Auckland, widow the sum of nineteen guineas of like lawful money".
I knew Thomas Bond's father-in-law was a Bowness, so thought this was likely to be a relation but wasn't sure as this modest bequest was in amongst other bequests to servants and workmen, rather than family. It is also small in relation to the total value of his will (in the tens of thousands of pounds).