Plews / Bowman families

[erinmore1]

Hi

I am trying to trace my family and have found a great grandmother Margaret Plews b. 1859 in Constable Burton, N. Yorkshire. She had two sons Harry & Ernest before emmigrating to South Africa where she had a further three children Annie, Helen, Frank. She died 1922 in Durban.

I recently found a death notice for her which listed her parents as Robert and Margaret Plews and her husband as Samuel Bowman.

I am looking for any information on her parents who were presumably also from the Constable Burton or possibly Leyburn area and on her husband as I can find no other reference to him anywhere.

Many thanks in advance.

Cheryl B

[PaulineJ]

You are starting from this death reg?
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG6G-NZT1
Is  (& her birthplace set-in-stone, or just what looked to be the most likely given age-at-death? )


When were harry and ernest born?

Birth regs under consideration for Margaret:
PLEWS, MARGARET       LONGMIRE  1858  D Quarter in LEYBURN  Vol 09D  Page 442
08 dec 1841 Parents were  married https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NLD9-6X3
1851 Census : https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SPMM-XFN
1861 census: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M74Y-JHT
1871 Census: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBZD-W4D
1881 (Parents of Margaret) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27B-P3PH


PLEWS, MARGARET  ANN     DANBY  1860  J Quarter in RICHMOND UNION   Vol 09D  Page 506  *
* Parents Thomas and Isabella. See  https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1473014

[erinmore1]

Hi Pauline

Harry was born 1884 Leeds and Ernest was 1886/7 Leeds. This is the death notice that I found:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS7P-X3S8-N?cc=2573604&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQLR2-2K2X

[PaulineJ]

That gives a marriage location at Harrogate.
I'll have a good look there.

[PaulineJ]

I can find a lass b Durham with Father Robert:

1881: (servant away from home) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q271-3GRS
1871: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDZ1-7ZL
1861 eludes at the moment

Marriages Sep 1855   (>99%)
Blackett    Mary        Teesdale    10a   218    
PLEWS    Robert        Teesdale    10a   218   
STEPHENSON    Susannah        Teesdale    10a   218    
Taylor    Henry        Teesdale    10a   218

PLEWS, ELIZABETH  JANE     BLACKETT    1857 J Quarter in AUCKLAND  Volume 10A  Page 149 PLEWS, MARGARET  ANN     BLACKETT  1859  J Quarter in AUCKLAND UNION  Volume 10A  Page 145
PLEWS, BARBARA       BLACKETT  1861  D Quarter in AUCKLAND  Volume 10A  Page 169


Hmm. Margaret may have jumpled the gun with Harry.
PLEWS, HARRY       -  1885  S Quarter in STOCKTON  Volume 10A  Page 91
BOWMAN, ERNEST       PLEWS  1887  M Quarter in LEEDS  Volume 09B  Page 490
BOWMAN, MARGARET  ANNIE     PLEWS  1889  M Quarter in KNARESBROUGH  Volume 09A  Page 108

[candrjm]

Where did the information of the birth place (Constable Burton)  for Margaret come from?

Was it from this census in 1881? if so this could be the daughter of James and Barbara Plews:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27B-PQW5

Is this your Margaret in the 1891 census (birth place only recorded as Yorkshire):
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7JZB-3PZ

There is this marriage:

Marriages Dec 1867 
ATKINSON    John William P        Ripon    9a   118    
HUTCHINSON    Phillis         Ripon    9a   118    
Plews    Robert         Ripon    9a   118     <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
TERRY    Margaret         Ripon    9a   118     <<<<<<<<<<<<<<

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<and possibly this couple in the1871 census:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZG7-5DP

Possibly your Margaret started life with a different surname and Plews was her stepfathers name

This is the other couple in 1871 just to verify who married who:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBHJ-MNP
and a birth reg for their daughter:
ATKINSON, MARGARET  PHILLIS      mothers maiden name HUTCHINSON     
GRO Reference: 1869  D Quarter in RIPON  Volume 09A  Page 70 

[PaulineJ]

That 1871 1891 with the shared surname Metcalf could be coincidence, or they could be extended family.
The 1891  really does look like the right lass..

[erinmore1]

Thanks both! I need to do some looking into those records so it may take a few days to get back to you.

Pauline - I did look at Margaret A but discounted her as her marriage and children's records didn't seem consistent.

[Christine53]

Margaret Bowman 33
Harry Bowman 7
Ernest Bowman 5

dep 9 Oct 1891 Southampton to Natal
Ship : Rubian

no sign of Samuel Bowman on this journey or another to Natal.