*Note: source citations will be developed over time but start out with enough information that members can readily find the books online (if available) and the page numbers.

**Errors will occur please reach out so these can be corrected.

Pennsylvania Henry Bowker b. 1605 migrated from Manchester, Lancashire, England (name changed to Baker because of the common phonetic spelling mistake) 

Australia branch descending from Richard Bowker b. 1558 came from Blackley, Lancashire, England then migrated to Manchester. It is likely these groups are connected.

Resources: Arthur Edwin, ed. (1885-) "A Friendly Heritage along the Delaware" Pg.135-138. pub. 1959, New York, Vantage Press.

The Bowker family descending from Richard Bowker b. 1558 d. 1589

John Bowker (b. 1755) living in Salford, Barnes, Clapham, and London had two sons John b. 1790 and William b. 1792.

John Bowker's (b. 1790) 3 sons migrated to Australia.

Henry Bowker (b. 1814) migrated from Battersea to Hawthorn in 1864

James Charles Bowker (b.1817) migrated from Battersea into Creswick in 1848

Thomas Bowker b. 1835 migrated from Battersea into Goulbourn in 1856.

Resources: Ivan Graham Mitford-Barberton and Raymond Berners Mitford-Barberton, The Bowkers of Tharfield. Published by University Press, Oxford (England) 1952

Victorian Genealogical Society (researchers on the Bowker line)

Summary: Coming Soon (see link)

Resources: Website (Linley & Jim Hooper's family history) Researcher Linley Hooper has developed her husband's Australian Bowker branch

Bowker - Migration pattern England, United States (Scituate, Massachusetts) - Many Bowkers whose migration stem from Lancashire, England, settled in the state of Massachusetts.

Early vitals for Scituate indicate the shared ancestor James Bowker b. 1645 (James Bowker b. 1620, Jeffrey Bowker b. 1582) If you would like the supporting image please message admin.

James I. Bowker b. 1645 (Wyre, Lancashire, England) d. 1724 (Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts) arrived in Scituate in 1680 (Sweden listed as historical ancestry location in Deane publication)

Children: 5 sons, 7 daughters

Sons listed as:

James Bowker

Lazarus Bowker

Mary Bowker

Richard Bowker

Edmund Bowker

Benjamin Bowker

James (s/o Bowker, James I):

Lazarus Bowker

James Bowker

John Bowker

Edmund Bowker

Joseph Bowker (relocated to Maine)

Resource: 

*Deane, Samuel, History of Scituate, Massachusetts from its first settlement to 1831. Page 223. Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Also available as a full book download on rootsweb.

*Vital records of Scituate, Massachusetts, to the year 1850,Volumes 1 Births & II. Marriages and Deaths; New England Historical Society at the Charge of the Eddy Town-Record Fund, Boston, Massachusetts, 1909. Available on Internet Archives.

*James (Buker) Bowker, Wikitree ID Buker-109 (accessed 6 Dec 2024) - Admin Joe Bowker (unavailable see update)

*appears to be some discrepancy on the birth location for James Bowker b. 1645 either Wyre or Manchester both in Lancashire, England

Testers are needed to develop these mysteries and to establish the Buker surname histories.

Israel Hilton Buker descendants (Perkins) - Migrated as Perkins from Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England to Ipswich, Massachusetts then to New Hampshire. Israel Hilton Buker was a revolutionary soldier honored with the badge of merit for his service. Genetic genealogy advancement has made it possible to uncover the biological parent of Israel which was misrepresented in Muskingum, Ohio history.

Wikitree includes the current history of Israel Hilton Buker. This site is open collaboration and maintained by Chet Ogan. Currently, a proof summary is being developed to refute the parentage claim presented in the book Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Muskingum County, Ohio.

Progress on the study can be found at (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Buker_-_Hilton_-_Perkins_Cluster_Study)

Resource: Israel Hilton Buker, WikiTree profile "Buker-129", accessed 26 Nov 2024, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Buker-129)

Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Muskingum County, Ohio- Goodspeed Publ., Chicago. 1892. 405 pp.

Areas known for early Bowker/Buker populations: England (Lancashire: Blakely, Croston, Salford, Walley, Chorley, Bradford, Didsbury, Crumsall, Newton, Manchester; Gloucestershire: Quinton, Chipping Campden, Admington; Huntingdonshire: Yaxley; Yorkshire: Bolton by Bolland; Shropshire: Wroxeter; Shrewbury: St. Chad; Sussux: Horsham ) United States (Maine, Ohio, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Virginia, Pennsylvania), Australia (Victoria, New South Wales)

If anyone needs help with a brick wall please reach out to the project administrator.

Acknowledgements: The Bowker project would like to thank the following family historians for their dedicated work in revealing the various branches of our Bowker story. For research on Bowkers of Victoria & New South Wales Australia thank you Ian Bowker for sharing 25+ years of research. Thanks also to New Zealand researcher Jan McBeth for collaborative work on Victoria and New South Wales Australia research. For research on another New South Wales, Australia Bowker line with another branch different from the Victoria and NSW branch we thank family historian Linley Hooper. For research on Scituate, Ma Bowker lines we would like to thank Joe Bowker for years of dedicated research and Wikitree pages.Thank you Janice Wall-Buker for Israel Hilton Buker family history that you dedicated years of research to honor your daughter. Thank you Chet Ogan for maintaining our Buker (Israel Hilton Buker) story on Wikitree. Thank you Jake Myer for providing exhaustive research and bringing us new theories to research on the Buker/Hilton/Perkin's mysteries.  

Olivia Buker-Grace will be emailing you to introduce herself to the project please reach out to include your family history journey to our background page.