Hi,
I'm new to this site so please forgive me if I make any mistakes. I am doing research on Tobias Bowles b. 1743 and family. I have some information but looking for additional to confirm his connection. Tobias and Mary had Catherine b. 1781 d. 1781, Leonard b. 1782 d. 1782, Dorothea b. 1783 d. 1783, Charles b. 1784 and Elizabeth b. 1787 d. 1787 all I think all were baptised in Holy Trinity Gosport and were buried in Rowner. I can't find the death for Charles and Mary, his wife, who died by 1792. Tobias worked for the Sick and Hurt Office for seamen. It looks like he spent a few years in Haslar Hospital but the other years in Tower-Hill and Somerset Place, London.
Tobias should have been a very wealthy man but he seems to have given up his business as a sugar refiner and took on a job as a clerk in the Sick and Hurt Office from 1782 - 1786 and 1788 - 1797. I know his brother Leonard was a mariner who changed sides during the American Revolution and might have been captured and sent to Forton prison and landed up in Haslar Hospital. This could explain why Tobias took a position as clerk in Haslar. This would have allowed him a way to look after his brother.
I need help and if needed, I'm willing to pay someone to do research. I have paid for research in Guensey and Hertfordshire and traced my wife's Bowles line back to 1658.
Your help and guidance would be greatly appreciated
Peter
I'm new to this site so please forgive me if I make any mistakes. I am doing research on Tobias Bowles b. 1743 and family. I have some information but looking for additional to confirm his connection. Tobias and Mary had Catherine b. 1781 d. 1781, Leonard b. 1782 d. 1782, Dorothea b. 1783 d. 1783, Charles b. 1784 and Elizabeth b. 1787 d. 1787 all I think all were baptised in Holy Trinity Gosport and were buried in Rowner. I can't find the death for Charles and Mary, his wife, who died by 1792. Tobias worked for the Sick and Hurt Office for seamen. It looks like he spent a few years in Haslar Hospital but the other years in Tower-Hill and Somerset Place, London.
Tobias should have been a very wealthy man but he seems to have given up his business as a sugar refiner and took on a job as a clerk in the Sick and Hurt Office from 1782 - 1786 and 1788 - 1797. I know his brother Leonard was a mariner who changed sides during the American Revolution and might have been captured and sent to Forton prison and landed up in Haslar Hospital. This could explain why Tobias took a position as clerk in Haslar. This would have allowed him a way to look after his brother.
I need help and if needed, I'm willing to pay someone to do research. I have paid for research in Guensey and Hertfordshire and traced my wife's Bowles line back to 1658.
Your help and guidance would be greatly appreciated
Peter
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