The Bowen Family

Eric Groome Chavasse Bowen

Birth: 12 March 1886, in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England

Father: George Frederick Massy Bowen

Mother: Harriette Fredericka Frances (Groome) Bowen

Married: Hermalinda Jessie Hudson on 26 January 1921, in Parish Church, Portsdown, Hampshire, England. Hermalinda was born on 10 September 1886, in The Priory, Cosham, Portsmouth, Hampshire, and died on 29 November 1971, in Macclesfield, Cheshire.

Death: 5 December 1959, in Torquay, Devon, England

Notes: In 1914, at Hilsea Barracks, Portsmouth, England

Sources:

Birth: England Birth Index (2Q1886 vol 6a p39); exact date from Helen Longworth
Marriage: Helen Longworth; Hermalinda birth from England Birth Index (4Q1886 vol 2b p539) with exact date from Helen Longworth, Hermalinda death from Helen Longworth
Death: Helen Longworth
Notes: Helen Longworth

George Frederick Massy Bowen

Birth: 9 July 1843, in Bedminster, Somerset, England

Married (1st): Therese Kate Williams in 1877 in Bristol district, England. Therese was born in 1858/9, in Swansea, Glamorganshire, and died in Bristol in 1883

Children:

Herbert Hatton Bowen (1878 - ? )
Claude Archibald Bowen (1880 - ? )

Married (2nd): Harriette Fredericka Frances Groome on 23 April 1885, in St George Hanover Square district, Middlesex, England

Children:

Eric Groome Chavasse Bowen (1886 - 1959)
Grace Angela Maxwell Bowen (1889 - 1929)

Occupation: Tailor

Death: 27 February 1925, in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England

Census:
1881: 117 Royal Promenade, Bristol St Michael, Gloucestershire

Sources:

Birth: England Birth Index (3Q1843 vol 11 p61); exact date and place from Helen Longworth
Marriage (1st): England Marriage Index (3Q1877 vol 6a p15); 1881 census; Therese birth from 1881 census, Therese death from England Death Index (2Q1883 vol 6a p30)
Marriage (2nd): England Marriage Index (2Q1885 St George Hanover Square vol 1a p659); exact date from Helen Longworth
Occupation: 1881 census
Death: England Death Index (1Q1925 Bristol vol 6a p278); exact date and place from Helen Longworth

Grace Angela Maxwell Bowen

Birth: 29 January 1889, in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England

Father: George Frederick Massy Bowen

Mother: Harriette Fredericka Frances (Groome) Bowen

Occupation: Music Teacher. In 1912, Grace passed the Metropolitan Examination at the Royal Academy of Music, for piano teaching (The Musical times and singing-class circular, vol 54, 1 February 1913, p74).

Death: 1929, in Cosham, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, of typhoid, aged 40

Sources:

Birth: England Birth Index (1Q1889 vol 6a p42); exact date from Helen Longworth
Occupation: The Musical times and singing-class circular, vol 54, 1 February 1913, p74
Death: England Death Index (4Q1929 Portsmouth vol 2b p562); exact place from Helen Longworth

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