Thomas Holden BOWKER

1807 - 1885  (78 years)

• Name	Thomas Holden BOWKER
  Born	24 Feb 1807	England
  Christened	10 Mar 1807	Mitford, Northumberland
  Gender	Male
  Died	26 Oct 1885	Tharfield, Albany
  Person ID	I28352	Families of the Overberg
  Last Modified	28 Nov 2019

  
  

  Father	Miles BOWKER,   b. 1765, England ,   d. 25 Mar 1839, Albany  (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Anna Maria MITFORD,   b. 1782, Northumberland, England ,   d. 8 Jul 1868, Albany  (Age 86 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	8 Mar 1800	Mitford, Northumberland
  Family ID	F2342	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Julia Eliza Emily MCGOWAN,   b. 1827, London ,   d. 1904, Albany  (Age 77 years)
  Married	18 Oct 1854	Mowbray, Cape town
  Children	1. Emily Atherstone BOWKER,   b. Sep 1855, Grahamstown ,   d. 23 Oct 1937, Somerset East  (Age ~ 82 years)  [natural]   2. Thomas Holden BOWKER,   b. 1857, Somerset East ,   d. 1932, Kitale, Kenya  (Age 75 years)  [natural]   3. Katherine Mitford BOWKER,   b. 3 Apr 1860, Cape Town ,   d. 28 Feb 1927, Kokstad  (Age 66 years)  [natural]   4. Mary Layard BOWKER,   b. 26 Apr 1863, Cape Town ,   d. 8 Mar 1928, Nanyuki, Kenya  (Age 64 years)  [natural]   5. John Mitford BOWKER,   b. 1864, Albany ,   d. 1929, Harare, Zimbawbe  (Age 65 years)  [natural]   6. Julia Eliza BOWKER,   b. 1867, Albany ,   d. 1872, Albany  (Age 5 years)  [natural]   7. Miles McGowan BOWKER,   b. 4 Aug 1869, Albany ,   d. 4 Mar 1961, Marandellas, Zimbabwe  (Age 91 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	28 Nov 2019
  Family ID	F2383	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  1. He was born in Northumberland 2. He was a keen naturalist and as early as 1832 made sketches of plants a nd insects which are in the Albany Museum. During one of the frontier wa rs he invented the conical bullet. 3. After serving in the campaign against Mfekani in1828 he then serv ed as Lieutenant in the Colonial Infantry in the Sixth War (1834-5) a nd as Captain of the Grahamstown Native Levies in the Seventh War (1846-7 ). He was Commandant of Burghers at Whittlesea in the Eighth War (1850-53 ). 4. He became the magistrate for Kat River in 1850 and an M.P. for Albany f or many years when he constantly sought redress for people ruined by the f rontier wars. 5. He was defeated in the election for president of the Orange Free Sta te in 1863 but became Secretary of the Land Commission at Kimberly. 6. He inherited Tharfield from his father and died there. His name appea rs on the family memorial on the farm 7. Estate 6/9/226 R1877