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Descendants of Joseph Bowman and Catherine Fetter

Generation No. 1

Joseph and Catherine Fetter - click to enlarge

    JOSEPH⁹ BOWMAN was born January 04, 1842 in Puslinch, Ontario, Canada¹, and died August 10, 1915 in Galt, Ontario, Canada. (headstone) He married CATHERINE FETTER November 08, 1870 in Puslinch, Ontario, Canada, daughter of JOHANNES FOERTER and MARIA TISCHER. She was born June 18, 1845 in Ostheim, (Nidderau), Germany², and died December 28, 1928 in Waterloo Twp., Ontario.

Notes for JOSEPH BOWMAN:

Witnesses to the baptism were John Schickler and Ursula Schickler. 

Joseph grew up on Lot 28 Con. 7 living there for a while after his marriage to Catherine Fetter on Jan. 8 1870. He was brought up Catholic in religion but after his marriage to Catherine Fetter, he and family attended the Lutheran Church. In the 1880's they moved to West Flamborough and by the1890's they lived near Valens in Beverly Township on the 9th Concession near the Gore Rd on Valens Sideroad. In later years they lived on Lowell St. in Galt where Joseph died (1915). He kept a horse in a small barn on Lowell street.

    The late Ollie Garside remembered her grandparents Joseph and Catherine Bowman living on the 9th Concession in Beverley Township. Grandpa would drive the sleigh to Galt and when it was cold, Grandma would wonder if they might go faster, and Grandpa would say, "The horse has to haul the sleigh too"!

OBITUARY

   The death occurred at 9 o'clock Tuesday evening of Joseph Booman, in his 74th year, at his late home 82 Lowell street. Deceased had been a resident of the city only since last spring when he came here from his farm near Freelton. He is survived by a widow and his grown up family.

  The funeral will take place from his late residence to the Hespeler cemetery.

  Wed. Aug. 11, 1915-Galt Reporter

The funeral of the late Mr. Bowman of Galt was held yesterday, interment taking place in the Hespeler cemetery. Mrs. William Black of Hespeler was a daughter of deceased.

   Aug. 13, 1915-Galt Reporter

Notes for CATHERINE FETTER:

There is a record in the Lutheran church records for Morriston that states a child baptized in 1864 for Heinrich Fetter's daughter (she was unmarried at the time).  Albert Boman is Catherine's son and at the time of her death he was living at RR#1 Hespeler.

On their marriage registration, Catherine's surname is spelled Foetter.

Children of JOSEPH BOWMAN and CATHERINE FETTER are:

i. MARY ANN¹⁰ BOWMAN3, b. May 13, 1867, Puslinch, Ontario, Canada

ii. MARGARET JANE BOWMAN, b. September 04, 1871, Puslinch, Ontario, Canada

iii. EMMA FRANCIS BOWMAN, b. September 25, 1872, Puslinch, Ontario, Canada

iv. CATHERINE CECELIA BOWMAN, b. February 22, 1874, Puslinch, Ontario, Canada

v. CAROLINE MATILDA BOWMAN, b. August 31, 1875, Puslinch Township, Ontario, Canada⁷

vi. VIOLA JOSEPHINE BOWMAN, b. January 11, 1877, Puslinch Township, Ontario, Canada

vii. CLARA ELIZABETH BOWMAN9, b. January 22, 1879, Puslinch Township, Ontario, Canada

viii. JOHANN NICKLAUS JOSEPH BOWMAN9, b. January 08, 1881, Puslinch Township, Ontario, Canada⁹

ix. WILLIAM C. BOWMAN, b. June 07, 1882, Puslinch Township, Ontario, Canada

x. VIOLET MABEL BOWMAN9, b. January 22, 1887, West Flamboro, Ontario Canada⁹

xi. ALBERT ADAM BOWMAN, b. May 20, 1891, Beverly Township⁹

xii. IDA EDITH LOUINA BOWMAN9, b. December 06, 1884, West Flamboro, Ontario⁹

xiii. ANTHONY IRVIN(E) EDWARD BOWMAN, b. August 27, 1896, Beverly Township⁹

 

Endnotes

1. Joseph Baumann-Baptismal Record.

2. Heinrich Quillmann, Windecken, Germany.

3. Morriston Evangelical /Lutheran Church Records.

4. RETURN OF MARRIAGES-WELLINGTON.

5. Joseph Baumann-Baptismal Record.

6. St. James Lutheran Church Records, Hespeler.

7. Morriston Evangelical /Lutheran Church Records.

8. Wilmot Township Civil Deaths.

9. Morriston Evangelical /Lutheran Church Records.

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