Hi, Joohn Baptist Dominiic Bowtell was my gt.grandfather. born 1872 at spennymoor, co.Durham.
Father was Edward James Bowtell, born 1838 st.Sepulchre, Snow Hill, London.EJB was an actor &travelling showman who travelled in UK & USA, using his son as an extra in the act, (first old men).
EJB emigratedto USA and became an author & teacher, dying in Providence, Rhode Island on
4th Sept. 1912. his wife, Jane Palmer Ramsey,born 1841 Spitalfields , Separated 1880, did not go to USA & re-married, died 1891 in Wandsworth.
JBDB married Sarah Rourke & had 8 children(including my grandfather, William born 1896).
Other references to Glasgow (1881)& TanfieldLea (1891), are correct. 1901,family are at Elswick St., Gateshead.1911, family are at Ferryhill, Co. Durham where JBDB & Sarah lived the rest of their lives.
JBDBdied 1944 & Sarah died 1936