John BOW

Abt 1823 - 1880  (~ 57 years)

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• Name	John BOW
  Relationship	with Teresa Ann GOATHAM
  Born	Abt 1823	St. Budeaux, Devon, England
  	From the 1851 census where shown as aged 27. Places of birth was also shown as St. Budeaux in 1871, but as Devonport in 1861 census.
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1841	Milton Combe, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England
  	Male Servant to Gardener
  	John Bow, one other male servant (aged 12) and a 13 year old female servant were living in the house of '40' year old gardner Samuel Syms and his wife, John's (rounded down) age given as 15.
  Occupation	1851
  	Ag lab
  	Living at Welltown in Tamerton Foliot parish, so presumably working on one of the farms near there.
  Occupation	From 1861 to 1880
  	Gardener
  	Domestic gardener according to his 2nd 'wife' Mary nee Justham's death certificate. In 1861 he was living on Ford Hill in St. Budeaux Parish. The following 3 census entries all included a gardner - where they working / what sort of gardening were they doing? One was shown as a jobbing gardener, while the previous page shows a market gardener living at Whitleigh. There are Whitleigh entries before and after those for Ford Hill so it must have been close to or in this hamlet. There was a large house, Whitleigh Hall, where more than one person must have employed in the garden, but there were other houses in the area e.g. West Park House, owned by a ship owner and merchant, and a house owned by a fund holder on Ford Hill, which might have employed a gardener (both of these had one live-in servant compared with the 8 at Whitleigh Hall). In 1871 John was living with his family in Tamerton village. On the few pages before and after in the census hardly any households had a single live in servant, but there are several other gardeners shown, so it is not at all apparent where John was working. Tamerton village is not far from Whitleigh (less than a mile, using a footpath across the fields) so John may still have worked there; another big house within easy walking distance was Loosleigh House.
  Died	23 Feb 1880	Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England
  	Cause: Paralysis (3 months), Congestion of Brain (3 days)
  	GRO ref: BOWE, John q1 1880 aged 56 Plympton RD 5b 191 Details from death registration (GRO register entry)
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  Person ID	I4403	All
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Family 1	Maria JUSTHAM,   b. Abt 1826, Milton Combe, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England ,   d. 28 Dec 1871, Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England  (Age ~ 45 years)
  Married	Dec Q 1844	Plymouth Reg Dist, Devon, England
  	GRO ref: BOW, John to JUSTHAM, Maria q4 1844 Plymouth RD 9 468
  Children	15 children
  1. John William BOW,   b. 25 Oct 1845, Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Richard BOW,   b. Abt 1847, Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Susanna BOW,   b. Mar Q 1849, Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Elizabeth Ann BOW,   b. Abt Dec 1850, Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown + 5. Isaac BOW,   b. 3 Jun 1852, Welltown, Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England ,   d. Jun Q 1920, Plymouth Reg Dist, Devon, England  (Age 67 years) ▻ Emily FULL  m. Sep Q 1877   6. Hannah Maria BOW,   b. Mar Q 1854, Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. William Henry BOW,   b. Sep Q 1855, Tavistock Reg Dist, Devon or Cornwall, England ,   d. Jun Q 1856, Tavistock Reg Dist, Devon or Cornwall, England  (Age ~ 1 years)   8. William Henry BOW,   b. Mar Q 1857, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   9. Ann Keziah BOW,   b. Mar Q 1859, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   10. James BOW,   b. Abt Oct 1860, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   11. Samuel BOW,   b. Sep Q 1862, Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   12. Joseph Andrews BOW,   b. Sep Q 1864, Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England ,   d. Dec Q 1865, Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England  (Age ~ 1 years)   13. Henrietta BOW,   b. Mar Q 1866, Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   14. George BOW,   b. Dec Q 1869, Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   15. [Stillborn] BOW,   b. Dec 1871,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2017
  Family ID	F3377	Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mary JUSTHAM,   b. Abt 1819, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England ,   d. 7 Oct 1892, Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England  (Age ~ 73 years)  Other Partners: John JURY  m. 2 Dec 1839
  Married	Mar Q 1873	Tavistock Reg Dist, Devon or Cornwall, England
  	GRO ref: JURY, Mary to BOW, John q1 1873 Tavistock RD 5b 539 Although Mary and John went through the formalities of getting married their marriage was in fact void, as the prohibited degrees meant a man may not marry his deceased wife's sister. (The law was changed to permit this in 1907). Up until 1835 such a marriage would have been voidable: if it was challenged while both of the couple were still living it would have been declared void, but if unchallenged once one of them had died it was considered valid. There were potential consequences in terms of inheritance and settlement and parish relief, and so couples in these marriages lived with some uncertainty on what the future consequences might be. An attempt to make these marriages permissible in 1835 resulted in the opposite - the law changed to say they were always void. The main potential consequence on Mary was likely to be that had she needed parish relief her legal place of settlement would be that of her husband John Jury when he died rather than that of John Bow, unless after John's death she acquired her own. It is not clear where John Jury's place of settlement was, but it seems probable it was a parish in Tavistock Poor Law Union, while Tamerton Foliot or St. Budeaux may be where John Bow had legal settlement; these were both in Plympton St. Mary Poor Law Union. Had John Bow and Mary been unable to look after themselves in old age and both needed to go into the workhouse they could have found themselves in different workhouses miles apart. Fortunately the need did not arise and they both seem to have died at home in Tamerton Foliot.
  Family	This couple had no children together
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2022
  Family ID	F3376	Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  		Born - Abt 1823 - St. Budeaux, Devon, England  Occupation - Male Servant to Gardener - 1841 - Milton Combe, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England  Married - Dec Q 1844 - Plymouth Reg Dist, Devon, England  Child - John William BOW - 25 Oct 1845 - Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England  Child - Richard BOW - Abt 1847 - Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England  Child - Susanna BOW - Mar Q 1849 - Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England  Child - Elizabeth Ann BOW - Abt Dec 1850 - Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England  Child - Isaac BOW - 3 Jun 1852 - Welltown, Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England  Child - Hannah Maria BOW - Mar Q 1854 - Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England  Child - William Henry BOW - Mar Q 1857 - Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England  Child - Ann Keziah BOW - Mar Q 1859 - Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England  Child - James BOW - Abt Oct 1860 - Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England  Child - Samuel BOW - Sep Q 1862 - Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England  Child - Joseph Andrews BOW - Sep Q 1864 - Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England  Child - Henrietta BOW - Mar Q 1866 - Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England  Child - George BOW - Dec Q 1869 - Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England  Died - Cause: Paralysis (3 months), Congestion of Brain (3 days) - 23 Feb 1880 - Tamerton Foliot, Devon, England   = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
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