Bowerman ancesters

[meerkat49]

I am really hoping someone may be able to help me with my research.  My great grandfather - Edward Bowerman, was born c1848 Devon, maybe Tiverton.  I have a copy of his marriage certificate dated 1884 in Exeter which says he was 36.  In the 1851 census it shows Edward with parents Richard and Eliza in Tiverton and states he is 2 which would make his birth 1849c.  I cannot find him in any other census records.  I know him and his wife Emma Tratt went to Australia and 3 children were born there but one died.  Edward did not return to England he was killed in a train accident when working on the railway.  I would really like to know where he was in the census records for 1861/1871/1881.  I think his parents may have had died by 1861.  Any help would be really appreciated and I know the above is complicated to take in. Thanks in advance.  Jayne   

[Ruskie]

1861
RG9/1480/77/1

Gotham Farm
Tiverton
Edward Bowerm serv 14 carter born Uploawman

(transcribed as Uplowman, but looks like Uploadman or Uplowaman  )
(surname reads as above)
I\Edward is in household of James Clapp

Added: Just checked and there is a place in Devon called Uplowman. 

[Ruskie]

Looking on FreeBMD there is only one likely birth registered for an Edward Bowerman around the right time in Devon:

Births Dec 1/4 1846
 Bowerman  Edward   
Tiverton & 
Vol 10
Page 279

[Nick29]

Not sure if you've seen the Sydney City Coroner's Report ?

His inquest was on 16 Nov 1888 (he died on the 15th), and his age was reported as 42, which ties in with an 1846 birth.

[suffolk*sue]

The parents in 1861 with a couple more children.

 RG9; Piece: 1478; Folio: 121; Page: 20 = Halberton


1871
RG10; Piece: 2169; Folio: 42; Page: 5

Their ages differ greatly from census to census.

[Ruskie]

I had to make a hasty exit yesterday and didn't have a chance to say that I was unable to find Edward on the 1871 census. I haven't looked for him in 1881 yet.

[meerkat49]

Thanks for looking everyone