The BMD indexes show a marriage for a George Bowden at Stockport in SEP quarter of 1857 and also in MAR 1860. There is one in Reading for SEP 1855; one at Newcastle upon Tyne in SEP 1858; Exeter in SEP 1858; two in JUN 1849 at Clifton and at Portsea.

From Methodist register for ?1895:

George Bowden DD

1851 Barnsley

1852 Hornsea

1853 Reading

1855 Newcastle on Tyne

1858 Liverpool, Pitt St.

1861 Liverpool Pitt Street, Superintendent

1862 Waterloo

1865 Manchester, Oxford Road

1867 Manchester, Radnor St.

1868 Blackheath

1871 London, City Road (see below) 

1874 Chelsea

1877 Llandudno & Rhyl

1880 Bristol, Portland

1881 Census (see below)

1883 Clevedon

1884 Bristol, Clifton

1885 Kingswood School, Bristol - Governor & Chaplain

1892 Wilts & Somerset Mission

1895 Bristol, Bedminster, Superintendent

1871 Census for Parsonage Avenue, Blackheath, Lewisham Union, London, Kent. ED 1, RG10 703 p17

George Bowden, HD, 41, Wesleyan Minister, born Cheshire;

Ellen Bowden, WI,  35, born Devon;

From Methodist 'Minutes of Conference 1881:

George Bowden, Bristol (Portland) circuit, duration of 2 years. Lived at Grosvenor Villa, Southfield Road, Cotham, Bristol.

1881 Census for 7 Southfields Road, Westbury on Trym (ref: 2503-90-7)

George Bowden, HD, 51, Wesleyan Minister, b CHS Stockport;

Ellen, WI, 45, b DOR Ashmore;

Thomas P Balshaw, ward, U, 17, Clerk to St+, b Swinton, LAN;

Janet Balshaw, ward, 16, SH, b Swinton, LAN;

George B Balshaw, 11, ward, SH, b KEN, Swinton, LAN;

Sarah Burton, SV, 29, Domestic Cook, n Wansford, NTH;

Georgiana Reckett, 18, General Domestic SV, b Cold Ashton, SOM;

There is an Ann Bowdon living nearby, the sister of Mr Allen, head of the

household. She was born in Ireland.

1891 - Governor and Chaplain of Kingswood School, Lansdown, Bath

Research to do - Look for Bowden in name index for Barnsley Census 1851

Also for Stockport 1851 to find parents - Mrs Anne Wright of 6 Hardy Drive, Bramhall, Stockport SK7 2BW reports (1997) that she has searched the 1851 census for George Bowden and Ann Wright, without success. Bowden was a common surname in Stockport at that time.

St Mary's Church is situated in Stockport Market.

Apparently no marriages are listed in IGI for any George Bowden and Ellen in CHS or DOR (where Ellen was born - but 1871 census gives DEVON). Look in IGI computer

According to an obituary in a Methodist Year Book, 'his closing years were marked by the painful illness and death of his wife. He had been ill since the beginning of 1902.

Will - Index: 'of Hillside, Banwell. Probate granted at London on 8th September 1902 to the Rev John Scott Lidgett, Wesleyan minister, Spencer Leigh Hughes, journalist, and Thomas Pole Warnsborough, Esquire. Effects £8,854-8-8.

Further notes:

If anyone knows where George was in 1851, I would like to hear! I couldn't find him in Barnsley when I last looked - or perhaps I couldn't get access to the microfiches. To be honest, I am not sure what the following notes mean! I think they indicates what I have looked at etc.

1851 census - ref HO 107-2157 includes St Mary's ED - Geo. not found. (pp are 16, 98, 101-3, 132, 148, 153, 164, 174, 178, 226, 230, 278, 332, 335, 362, 380, 469, 505-6, 534, 535, 565, 569, 590, 598, 601, 612, 635, 662, 672, 689).

Ref HO 107-2156 has NOT been looked at yet - (pp are 14, 15, 253, 259, 291, 300, 306, 350, 359, 435, 454, 473, 502, 758, 779, 788, 839, 841, 846)

There is a George Fowden[sic], 37, at f 565 of /2157

At f 635 there is:

George Bowden, 54, Handloom weaver, silk, at London Road. b CHS ?Bramall.

At f 732 (Bottom Lane), there is George Bowden, age 1 (?or 11), with parents Samuel and Martha.

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