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The BOWSKILL Family of Nottinghamshire

The family name is explained as being of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse origin, a locational surname deriving from Bowscale near Mungrisdale in Cumberland. It is derived from the Old English "boga", bow, a short form of the name of the local bow-shaped hill, (i.e. Bow Fell), with the Old Norse "skali", for a hut, shed, or temporary building", which in Middle English developed into the word "scale". While this derivation may account for the local concentration in Cumbria (see map below), it does not really account for the concentration of the name very much focused on Nottinghamshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is possible Norse influence resulted in a similar sounding name to the Cumbrian reference, however it is also possible it was an honorific to a very skilled bowman or archer.

The family is based in and around West Bridgford, SE of the city of Nottingham:

John BOWSKILL (1573-1630) of West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire. He married Alice ARCHER (1575-1647) in 1596 at Holme Pierrepont (my 10xGGPs), a small village which is situated on the river Trent between West Bridgford & Radcliffe on Trent (see map above). They had the following children: 

• George BOWSKILL (1597 HP);

• Frances BOWSKILL (1599 HP), m. 1624 WB = John BAGGELY;

• John BOWSKILL (1602 HP);

• Marie or Mary BOWSKILL (1604 HP), m. 1628 = Thomas LEESON;

• George BOWSKILL (1606);

• Thomas BOWSKILL (1607-08 WB);

• Michael BOWSKILL (1609);

• John BOWSKILL (1609);

George BOWSKILL (1606-58) & Margaret HARDING (1602-1676) m. 17.6.1620 in West Bridgford (my 9xGGPs) and had the following children in West Bridgford:

• John BOWSKILL (1622), m. 6.6.1640 at Nottingham St. Mary to Margaret BLOCKSTON *(1619) and had the following children:

  • Margaret BOWSKILL (1641) married John HORNBUCKLE on 10.2.1657 in West Bridgford, my 8xGGPs;

• Frances BOWSKILL (1628)

• Walter BOWSKILL (1630-1690), m. Margaret ALCOCKE (1633-86) of Nuthall, Notts. on 13.12.1670 at Attenborough, Notts. Their children:

  • Sarah BOWSKILL (1671);

  • John BOWSKILL (1673-1722), m. Anne COWDALE (1675-1757) on 13.1.1695 at Wilne, Derbys., and had the following children in Attenborough:

    • Ann BOWSKILL (1699);

    • John BOWSKILL (1701);

    • Thomas BOWSKILL (1709);

• William BOWSKILL (1630);

* After John BOWSKILL's death, Margaret BLOCKSTON married a Richard BALDOCK on 30.11.1674 at St. Mary's.

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