Bower & Collier Family Tree
Research by CM Bower
On holiday in Madeira April 2008
Welcome to our web site.
Our web-site summarises our research into:
- our Bower/Collier Family Tree
- the Sinking of the S S Britannia,
- the Brecht One-Name Study
- Silk Weavers named Collier and
- a local history project: Find the Lady!
Contents
The main contents of the web-site are:
What's New 2008?
Recent activities in family and local history research:
Bower/Collier Family Tree
Family History Project into our Family History including:
- Our Family Tree (our 16 Great Grandparents and their descendants):
- Visits to places where our ancestors lived, to bring the Family Tree to life including:
The Sinking of the SS Britannia in 1941
A personal account by my father Frederick Bower of the sinking of the SS Britannia by the German raider Thor, and a narrow escape from the Bismarck:
The Sinking of the SS Britannia
Brecht One-Name Study
A detailed study into the descendants of Heinrich (Henry) & Mary (Somes) Brecht, my mother's maiden name:
Collier Family
Research into my wife Chris' maiden name including:
- Silk Weavers named Collier living in Spitalfields and Bethnal Green in East London in 19th Century with possible links to weavers of Huguenot descent (Gaucheron/Kemp:)
- Descendants of Charles Collier, Silk Weaver and Charles Collier, Ropemaker, his son:
Collier Family in England and Canada
Find the Lady!
A Local History Project to try to trace a Victorian Lady who lived in the Lymington area in 1883-1893 and kept a Calling Book. During this time she appears to have met the cream of society in the Lymington area including:
- members of the Shrubb and Fluder families:
- members of the St Barbe and Rooke families
- Mrs Theresa West, mother of William Cornwallis West (whose son George was Winston Churchill's step-father)
- the widow of Admiral Sartorius who served at Trafalgar
- various people during visits to Galway, York and Leeds
The Project is summarised in various articles:
Summary of Names Indexes
There are various indexes of people mentioned in this web site:
Progress Report on the Above Subjects
A report on activities undertaken and progress made in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 and research still to be undertaken:
Progress Report and To Do List
Photo Album
Collation of the photos that appear throughout the web site
Colin Bower
30 September 2008
