Isabel BOWERY 1893 Newent d/o Hannah/Anna from Spain (General)

by spindles , Gloucester, Monday, March 22, 2010, 11:29 (5439 days ago) @ slowhands

Thank you for your reply Slowhands. The Isabel Bowery listed is not my Isabelle as mine was getting married in 1893 when the other one was being born. Hannah/Anna is the Spanish lady Anna Ramos who married Thomas Henry Bowery and I believe could be related to my Isabelle. My main problem is that there has been some name changes from Bowery/Bowry to Ballinger and back again and I wonder if this was fairly common in those days. I wouldn't want to be convincing myself that a certain person was my relative when they are not connected at all which is why I hope that someone in the Bowery or Ballinger families might know something. One of my Isabelle's children remembers being sent to visit a "foreign" lady in the Forest and was told to call her Aunt.

I have just received a marriage certificate for Rosa Bowry and John Hughes for 1873 and the names of the witnesses are William Manns and Emma Bowry. Her name also appeared on another marriage in 1870 of Julia Ann Bowry to Jacob Whitehouse. Funnily enough the other witness to that marriage was a William Hughes who might be the father of John Hughes as his name was William. Rosa Bowry had a sister Julia and both marriages give their father as John Bowry so it looks like it's Rosa's sister but I haven't come across an Emma Bowery in my research, only Emily, so that's another lead I shall have to follow in the search for my Isabelle. Thanks again for your help.