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Offline markheal

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Vansittart and Bowater families. Did families ever merge/marry?
« on: Friday 11 December 20 15:49 GMT (UK) »
Did these families ever merge/marry or did Bowaters just 'acquire' the Vansittart name?

Thomas Vansittart Bowater
1807–1883
BIRTH 2 OCT 1807 • Danbury, Chelmsford, Essex, England
DEATH 2 JUN 1883 • Barton Regis, Gloucestershire, England
ANSTRUTHER,Worldwide
BENNETT,
BRETT, Sligo
CARNEGIE,
CROCKFORD, Hampshire.
ELLIOT,
GAUNTLETT, Worldwide
HEAL, HEALE, HELE, Chew Magna, Somerset
HENRY, Sligo
MABEY, Dorset
O'HANLON
POPE, London docklands,
STANDERWICK, Somerset,
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Re: Vansittart and Bowater families. Did families ever merge/marry?
« Reply #1 on: Friday 11 December 20 16:04 GMT (UK) »
Have you found any "dutch" connections ? 

Vansittart is a surname of Dutch origin, derived from the city of Sittard in Limburg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vansittart

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Re: Vansittart and Bowater families. Did families ever merge/marry?
« Reply #2 on: Friday 11 December 20 18:57 GMT (UK) »
Might this help?

Baptism
Chelmsford St Mary the Virgin
Thomas Vansittart Bowater
born 2 Oct 1807
baptised 1 July 1811
Parents Majr William Bowater & Mary

maybe their marriage would help??

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Thornhill, Cresswell, Sisson, Harriman, Cripps, Eyre, Walter, Marson, Battison, Holmes, Bailey, Hardman, Fairhurst Noon-mainly in Derbys/Notts-but also Northampton, Oxford, Leics, Lancs-England
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Re: Vansittart and Bowater families. Did families ever merge/marry?
« Reply #3 on: Friday 11 December 20 19:41 GMT (UK) »
Anc tree goes back to 1715 but no Vansittart spouses.  :-\

Richard Bowater 1715 - Mary Bayley
Major William Bowater 1755 -Maria Cole
Thomas Vansittart 1808 - Sarah Davis

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Re: Vansittart and Bowater families. Did families ever merge/marry?
« Reply #4 on: Friday 11 December 20 20:44 GMT (UK) »
If you follow the family back on The Peerage, the name doesn't appear in a marriage

http://www.thepeerage.com/p17585.htm
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