Miles Brabbin BOWKER^[1]

1806 - 1864  (58 years)

• Name	Miles Brabbin BOWKER
  Born	1806	England
  Gender	Male
  Died	1864
  Person ID	I6038	My Family Tree | Ancestors and descendants of Nesta Marion HILL
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2008

  
  

  Father	Miles BOWKER,   b. 1765, Deckhams Hall, Gateshead, England ,   d. 25 Mar 1839, Tharfield, Albany District, Eastern Cape, South Africa  (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Anna Maria MITFORD,   b. 1782,   d. 8 Jul 1868, Tharfield, Eastern Cape, South Africa
  Photos		Anna Maria MITFORD Painting by W. G. Bevington Albany Museum, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
  Family ID	F899	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Barbara Petronella OOSTHUISEN,   b. 6 Nov 1809
  Married	7 Oct 1827	Uitenhage, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
  Last Modified	2 Feb 2007
  Family ID	F1014	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Miles Brabbin BOWKER

  
  

  Histories » Slide Show		Bowkers of Tharfield Extract of F. C. Metrowich's book "Assegai Over the Hills". The Story of the Eastern Cape. First published July 1953 by Howard B. Timmins, 58, Long Street, Capetown. Chapter XXV: Bowkers of Tharfield
  		Letters from Miles BOWKER to Secretary of State for the Colonies. From 18 Jul 1819 to 26 Dec 1819. Transcript of CO48/41 National Archives, Kew, London
  		Log of the HMSS Weymouth (1819 - 1820) From Portsmouth, England to Algoa Bay, East Cape Province (Port Elizabeth). 16 December 1819 to 20 May 1820

  
  

• Sources

  [S7145] The Bowkers of Tharfield, Ivan and Raymond Mitford-Barberton, (Oxford 1952) (Reliability: 2). Notmuch is known of Miles' early life. He lived at Tharfield until his father died in 1839. He owned the farm Thorn Kloof, and was living and farming there when the War of the Axe broke out in 1846. They abandoned the farm during the war, and it was completely destroyed. After the war, Miles sold the farm to his brother William, and moved to "Groenfontein" until the 1850 war, when again he had to abandon his farm. He eventually retired to the original family farm, Tharfield. In 1864 he became seriously ill, and his brother William took him to Thorn Kloof, where he eventually died. He was 6'2" in height, and could jump that height when he was a young man.