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- Marriage certificate states Henry Bowen age 21 Bookkeeper of Manchester & Eliza Eachus age 24 Spinster of Manchester
Administration of the Personal Estate of Henry Bowen late of the Highlands Llandough near Cardiff in the County of Glamorgan Esquire a widower, who died 14 March 1881 at the Highlands, was granted at Llandaff under the usual Limitations to Elizabeth Birch of the Highlands, Widow, the Aunt and the Guardian of Maud Gwendoline Bowen, Spinster. An infant the daughter and only Next of Kin. Personal Estate under ?18000.
Resworn January 1890 amount ?20467/1/6d. This grant ceased and expired another grant of administration passed at the principal registary October 1896.
Henry Bowen of the Highlands Llandough near Cardiff esquire, died 14 March 1881. Administration (Limited) London 24th October to John Alfred Stevens wine merchant. Effects ?20467/1/6d. Former grant Llandaff Aprill 1881.
Adminstration of unadministerd estate princible registary July 1915.
Cathays Cemetery Cardiff - Inscriptions on Grave
In Effectionate rememberance of Eliza the belovid wife of Henry Bowen of Cardiff. Born 14th Feb 1813. Died 12th Feb 1871
I Sought the Lord and he Heard Me.
Obituary W Mail 16/31881 [A3-9]
Also in memory of Fanny his second wife Born at Gloucester. Died at the Highlands Llandolough. 25th June 1880 Age 39.
Also in Memory of Henry Bowen Manager & Engineer of Cardiff Gas Works for 34 years.
Alderman Adn J.P. born at Salford 3rd Jan 1823. Died at the Highlands Llandough 14th March 1881.
See article "The Manchester Genealogist" 1993 #3 by Barbara McGivern.
Henry Bowen was Lord Mayor of Cardiff 1872-3; Started as a Gas Works clerk in Salford at age 14. Cause of death 1881 "Bronchitis, gastric catarrh, angina"
Census:
1851 Whitemore Street, Cardiff. Head (married) age 28, Gas Engineer, (51-66)
1861 41 Crockherbtown, Cardiff. Head (married) age 38, Gas Engineer. (61-95)
1871 41 Crockherbtown, Cardiff. Head (widower) age 48. Manager of Gas works (71-115)
Archive;
The Henry Bowen Papers (MISC 1/22, MISC1/23, MISC 1/24)
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