Bowater History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

Early Origins of the Bowater family

The surname Bowater was first found in Middlesex where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the 13th century when they held estates in that shire.

Early History of the Bowater family

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Bowater Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Bowater, Boewater, Bowatar, Boughwater and others.

Early Notables of the Bowater family (pre 1700)

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Bowater migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Bowater Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Tho Bowater, who landed in Philadelphia, Pm in 1683 [1]

Bowater migration to Australia +

Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:

Bowater Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century

Miss Mary Bowater, British Convict who was convicted in Shropshire, England for 7 years, transported aboard the "Experiment" on 4th December 1803, arriving in New South Wales, Australia [2]
Mr. Daniel Bowater, (b. 1817), aged 20, English labourer who was convicted in Stafford, Staffordshire, England for 7 years for stealing, transported aboard the "Blenheim" on 11th March 1837, arriving in Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land), he died in 1890 [3]
Mr. Benjamin Bowater, (b. 1816), aged 22, British Convict who was convicted in Warwick, Warwickshire, England for 10 years for stealing, transported aboard the "Coromandel" on 25th June 1838, arriving in Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land), he died in 1875 [4]

Contemporary Notables of the name Bowater (post 1700) +

Lt.-Col. Sir Ian Frank Bowater GBE, DSO, TD (1904-1982), English politician, Lord Mayor of London from 1969 to 1970
William Vansittart Bowater (1838-1907), English founder of Bowater Scott, now known as Rexam, one of the United Kingdom's largest packaging businesses
WV Bowater, English businessman, who began a paper merchant business in London, England in 1881, which would become the Bowater corporation of pulp and paper mills in North America
General Sir Edward Bowater (1787-1861), British lieutenant-general and colonel 49th foot from 1846, descended from a respectable Coventry family, members of which were established in London and at Woolwich during the 17th century [5]
Alexis Bowater (b. 1969), former British television journalist and presenter
Sir Euan David Vansittart Bowater (b. 1935), 3rd Baronet
Sir Noël Vansittart Bowater (1892-1984), 2nd Baronet
Sir Frank Henry Bowater (1866-1947), 1st Baronet
Sir Michael Patrick Bowater (b. 1949), 5th Baronet
Sir John Vansittart Bowater (1918-2008), 4th Baronet
... (Another 3 notables are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)

Citations +

Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 22nd March 2021). Retrieved from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/coromandel-and-experiment
Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 15th October 2020). Retrieved from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/blenheim
Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 19th March 2021). Retrieved from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/coromandel
Wikisource contributors. "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900." Wikisource . Wikisource , 4 Jun. 2018. Web. 5 Feb. 2019