On this page you will find some details about our family history.

The Bowling Family History

This is the Bowling family tree going back to around early 19^th Century with Robert Bowling born in London in 1841 and other relations going back to 1743 in Wakefield and the Isle of Mann. I’ve not been able to go back any further than that to date.

If you can help add any further links to the tree or want to get in touch then simply click on the E-Mail us link that should open your mail service to send to us. If that does not work – then leave a message in our guestbook with an address for us to mail back to you.

If you wish to use our family history you can download a Gedcom compliant file here (updated 14^th March 2006). Just right click over the link below, and save as...

Bowling Family Gedcom File

There is also a family History PDF book for Alan Bowling that can be accessed by a right click over the link below.

Alan Bowling PDF File

A particularly sad note in our family history summarised in the autobiography of one of our relatives Albert Thomas Haines:

“Most shocking of all, my mother’s brother, Tom, his wife Maude and children Tommie and Jessica had been killed when a German bomb made a direct hit on the surface shelter in which they had taken refuge. Their youngest son, Bobby, who was with them, miraculously escaped unharmed but was left shocked and devastated – an orphan. My parents took him in and later arranged for his education at Shooters Hill School and at University. A fourth child of the family, Ted, had been evacuated to Taunton.”

Bobby, or Bob as he is now known is my father.

The records of anyone who died during the great wars either as a member of the armed forces of the UK or a UK civilian as a result of enemy action can be found at the following website

http://www.cwgc.org/

In Memory of

MAUD ALICE BOWLING

of 18 Cunard Street. Wife of Thomas Bowling. at 18 Cunard Street.
who died as a result of enemy action on Sunday, 11th May 1941. Age 44.
THOMAS BOWLING

of 18 Cunard Street. Son of Thomas Bowling, of 12 The Forester's Home,

Bexley Heath, Kent; husband of Maud Alice Bowling. at 18 Cunard Street.
who died as a result of enemy action on Sunday, 11th May 1941. Age 44.
JESSICA BOWLING

of 18 Cunard Street. Daughter of Thomas and Maud Alice Bowling. at 18 Cunard Street.
who died as a result of enemy action on Sunday, 11th May 1941. Age 16.
THOMAS WILLIAM BOWLING

of 18 Cunard Street. Son of Thomas and Maud Alice Bowling. at 18 Cunard Street.
who died as a result of enemy action on Sunday, 11th May 1941. Age 19.

Commemorated in the
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF CAMBERWELL
Section of the Civilian War Dead Register.