I give you the content infomation here below to show how Brent has followed
the spread of the families, as far as Australia, and of course, Canada;
and I urge those wanting a copy to write off for it NOW. I can assure
you that this is NOT another 'Book of Bowyers', and even if your
Great Aunt Bowyer is not from this area, you will benefit from the vast
"What was happening then?" infomation contained therein. A couple
of flicks through the pages and you will soon wish that your Great Aunt
Bowyer did come from this area!
THE COST........ that is the rub!
I nipped along to my local Barclays Bank and had a chat with Caroline there about sending money orders to Canada. It costs £12 per cheque for any amount and Caroline suggested that we share this charge by ordering a number of books from one centre with a single payment. For to send $60 to Brent would be an outlay of near £30 plus the £12 charge. Some professional researchers can charge this per hour for a fraction of the infomation contained in this book, so you may consider it all worth while. Tell me (01 580 860 254) if you think sharing this cost a good idea. The Post Office has no means of helping us in this matter.
Cheers, Denis.
Appendices
1. Suffolk up to 1500 A.D.
2. Some Suffolk wills 1630 - 35
3. Some Bowyer wills
4. Witchcraft
5. The Levellers, Diggers & Agitators
6. The Kedington Bowyers 1750 - 1900
7. Enclosure, the Poor Laws & Workhouses
8. Apprenticeships
9. Blacksmithing
10. The Pub
11. The Church
12. The Class System
13. Everyday life in the 19yh Century
14. Didlington Hall -- excerpts from Trail of Trials by Jim Trimbee
15. Handwriting Samples
16. Certificates of Birth, Marriage & Death
17. Bibliography
18. Endnotes
19. Index of Names
Maps: England/Suffolk Australia Canada/Kent Co., Ont.
- Read about....
- Maude Bowyer's disposal of all her pewter, brass, clothing &
other possessions in her will made in Feb. 1578
- the hundreds of land transactions carried out by our yeomen
Bowyer ancestors as recorded in the manorial records
- the testimony given to a judicial inquiry by Hugh Bowyer at
Clare, Suffolk in 1606
- the allegations made in 1644 by Thomas Bowyer against William
Proctor, Rector of Stradishall
- the topsy-turvy world of mid 1600s Suffolk in which our Bowyers lived
at the time of the Civil War and witchhunts
- the dispersal of our Bowyer family from the ancestral parishes
of Withersfield & Stradishall to other Suffolk villages (Cowlinge,
Clare, Poslingford, Kedington), Cambridgeshire, Essex, & London
- the 19th-century destitution of the agricultural labourers that prompted
migration to Australia & the hundreds of Bowyer descendants
there now
- the early 20th century scattering of the Cheveley, Cambridgeshire
branch of the family to S. Africa, Canada, & Australia
- the blacksmithing branch of the Stradishall Bowyers, including
the dispersements made over many decades to them at Poslingford,
Suffolk by the churchwardens of the parish
- life on the Bowyer farm in Canada during the Depression of
the 1930s
- YOUR BOWYER ANCESTRY back to 1500
*** the distillation of 17 years of research
*** 423 8 1/2 by 11 inch pages, single-spaced, including 55 pages of
pictures
*** copies of 26 birth / marriage /death certificates, 9 early wills
from the 1500s-1700s, 4 apprenticeship indentures, 3 inventories of possessions,
& 1 settlement examination certificate
*** the names of over 3200 descendants of Willam (d. 1556) & Maude
(d. 1580) Bowyer
*** fully indexed
*** includes maps showing where our family have lived
*** set in the social and political context of the times
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