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Joseph Bowles & Mary Marnan
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Genealogical Details
Joseph Bowles , born June 15, 1827 [9] in Ireland [9], son of Michael Bowles and ????. Died May 20, 1913 [12], at Port Perry, Ontario [12].
Married ????, at ???? [?] to:
Mary Marnan (spelling uncertain), born circa 1832 [2] in Ireland [2], Daughter of ??? Marnan and ????. Died February 10, 1877, at age 48 [13] at Reach Township, Ontario [?].
Children of Joseph and Mary were [2] [3] [6] [9] [15]:
- Rebecca Bowles, born January 1, 1859, Upper Canada (now Ontario, Canada).
- Mary Bowles, born circa 1860 or 1865, Upper Canada, married John Burk (son of Thomas & Mary) January 13, 1887 at Uxbridge.
- William Bowles, born January 3, 1862, Upper Canada, married Ellen.
- Eliza Bowles, born circa 1865 Upper Canada , married Bernard O'Brien.
- Ellen Bowles, born circa 1868 Ontario, Canada.
- Catherine Bowles, born August 1870, Ontario, Canada.
- Unnamed male child, born and died 1872, Reach.
Family History Details
Joseph emigrated from Ireland to Canada about 1846 [10] or 1851 [9]. At the time of the 1851 census, he was working as a labourer in Whitby, Ontario [14].
Joseph & family were farmers in Reach Township, Ontario. In 1877 they owned and farmed 233-and-1/3 acres of land south of Greenbank and west of Port Perry, Ontario, on what is now Ontario Highway 7 [7]. The 1861 census indicates they lived in a one-story framed house. Joseph's widowed father Michael already lived with Joseph's family by that time.
Mary died a sudden death in 1877, ruled as heart disease [13].
Rebecca never married and remained at her father's home until at least 1911 (when she was 52 years old) [10]. In the 1911 census she was mistakenly recorded as Joseph's wife [10].