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The
BOWSKILL Family of Nottinghamshire
The family name
is explained as being of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse origin, a
locational surname deriving from Bowscale near Mungrisdale in
Cumberland. It is derived from the Old English "boga",
bow, a short form of the name of the local bow-shaped hill, (i.e.
Bow Fell), with the Old Norse "skali", for a hut, shed,
or temporary building", which in Middle English developed
into the word "scale". While this derivation may
account for the local concentration in Cumbria (see map below),
it does not really account for the concentration of the name very
much focused on Nottinghamshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire.
It is possible Norse influence resulted in a similar sounding
name to the Cumbrian reference, however it is also possible it
was an honorific to a very skilled bowman or archer.
The family is
based in and around West Bridgford, SE of the city of Nottingham:
John BOWSKILL
(1573-1630) of West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire. He married Alice
ARCHER
(1575-1647) in 1596 at Holme Pierrepont (my 10xGGPs), a small
village which is situated on the river Trent between West
Bridgford & Radcliffe on Trent (see map above). They had the
following children:
George
BOWSKILL (1597 HP);
Frances
BOWSKILL (1599 HP), m. 1624 WB =
John BAGGELY;
John
BOWSKILL (1602 HP);
Marie
or Mary BOWSKILL (1604 HP), m.
1628 = Thomas LEESON;
George
BOWSKILL (1606);
Thomas
BOWSKILL (1607-08 WB);
Michael
BOWSKILL (1609);
John BOWSKILL
(1609);
George BOWSKILL
(1606-58) & Margaret HARDING
(1602-1676) m. 17.6.1620 in West Bridgford (my 9xGGPs) and had
the following children in West Bridgford:
John
BOWSKILL (1622), m. 6.6.1640 at
Nottingham St. Mary to Margaret
BLOCKSTON
*(1619) and had the following children:
Frances
BOWSKILL (1628)
Walter
BOWSKILL (1630-1690), m. Margaret
ALCOCKE (1633-86) of Nuthall,
Notts. on 13.12.1670 at Attenborough, Notts. Their children:
Sarah
BOWSKILL (1671);
John
BOWSKILL (1673-1722), m. Anne
COWDALE (1675-1757) on 13.1.1695
at Wilne, Derbys., and had the following children in
Attenborough:
Ann
BOWSKILL (1699);
John
BOWSKILL (1701);
Thomas
BOWSKILL (1709);
William BOWSKILL
(1630);
* After John BOWSKILL's death,
Margaret BLOCKSTON married a Richard
BALDOCK
on 30.11.1674 at St. Mary's.
The
outline above is indicative only and not necessarily fully
correct or complete.
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http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/pt/pedigree.aspx?tid=9072976
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