The Bowker Children 

4.  Thomas Holden Bowker (1808-1885)
m. Julia Eliza McGowen

Extract from 'The Bowkers of Tharfield' by Ivan Mitford-Barberton:
While the dinner was being prepared Holden was surprised to hear a child crying.  He went to investigate and found Kaffir baby boy in an ant-bear's hole with a flat stone placed over the entrance.  The child. about 2 years old, half dead from exposure and starvation, had evidently been abandoned there by his mother while fleeing from the Fetcani.
Holden fed the child and rode to 'Tharfield' with him tied on his back in the Kaffir manner.  The boy was given to one of the Kaffir women on 'Tharfield' who had a small child of her own, with the promise of a cow if he survived.  He did survive and was named Resurrection Jack and eventually became a house boy.  Although a inveterate food thief, he proved on the whole a good and faithful servant and followed the family fortunes for many years.  When he was about 70 years old he came to see his old mistress Mrs. W. M. Bowker at 'Thorn Kloof'.

4.1  Emily Atherstone Bowker, b. 1855 d. 1937 m. Robert Hart Bowker
       4.1.1  Robert Holden Arderne Bowker, b. 1882 m. Sarah Terblanche
                 4.1.1.1  Teresa Atherstone Bowker, b. 1912 m. W. H. Stuart
                               4.1.1.1.1  Elizabeth Stuart, b. 1938
                               4.1.1.1.2  Margaret Stuart, b. 1942
                 4.1.1.2  Robert Ettienne Bowker, b. 1914.  Served in Italy.
       4.1.2  Emily McGowan Bowker, b. 1883.  Unmarried
       4.1.3  Egerton Mitford Bowker, b. 1884.  Unmarried
       4.1.4  Bertram Egerton Bowker, b. 1886.  Unmarried
       4.1.5  Dennis McGowan Bowker, b. 1890.  Unmarried
       4.1.6  Mary Russell Mitford Bowker, b. 1891 m. Dennis Cotterell Hoole
                 4.1.6.1  Molly Josephine Cotterell  Hoole, b. 1922 m. Montague Bean
                 4.1.6.2  James Cotterell Hoole, b. 1924
                 4.1.6.3  Desmond Robert Hoole, b. 1927
                 4.1.6.4  Helen Berners Hoole, b. 1929
       4.1.7  Phyllis Berners Bowker, b. 1894 m. Alex Lynn Nacdonald
                 4.1.7.1  Ronald Macdonald
                 4.1.7.2  Kenneth Macdonald
                 4.1.7.3  Berners Macdonald
                 4.1.7.4  Sheila Macdonald b. 1938
       4.1.8  Bertha Monkhouse Bowker, b. 1895, died in infancy
       4.1.9  Raleigh Redesdale Bowker, b. 1899 m. Florence Wheeler
                 4.1.9.1  June Grace Bowker, b. 1933
                 4.1.9.2  Norman Robert Bowker, b. 1936
4.2  Thomas Holden Bowker, b. 1857 d. 1932.  Unmarried

Extract from 'The Bowkers of Tharfield' by Ivan Mitford-Barberton: generally known as 'Old Holden'

4.3  Katherine Mitford Bowker, b. 1860 d. 1927 m. Miles Egerton Bowker  
       4.3.1  Henry Mitford Bowker, b. 1897 m. Ida May Eaton
                 4.3.1.1 Norman Mitford Bowker, b. 1943 (adopted)
                 4.3.1.2  Marjorie Ann Bowker, b. 1945 (adopted)
4.4  Mary Layard Bowker, b. 1963 d. 1928 m. Henry Mitford Barber

Their surname changed to become Mitford-Barberton

4.5  John Mitford Bowker, b. 1864 d. 1929 m. Lilian Ethel Hayter
4.6  Julia Eliza Bowker, b. 186 d. 1872
4.7  Miles McGowan Bowker, b. 1869 m. Gertrude Neethling
       4.7.1  Humphrey Bowker, b. 1927

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