After the financial collapse of the corn mill on the
banks of the River Wear, Thomas Bowes became the Manager of Webster's Ropery in
Sunderland County Durham. This was one of the first steam-powered roperies in the
area. He married Sarah Dorothy Hall the daughter of a local shipbuilder and
they had 10 children 5 of whom died in infancy. His son Thomas wrote of him,” An affectionate Father,
generous and hearty in his manner and I place on record that I bear both to him
and my Mother feelings of great affection and respect”. His grandson, Charles
said, :I remember him as an elderly but very benevolent grandfather usually
sitting by the fire dressed in a velvet jacket and porkpie embroidered smoking
cap, smoking a long churchwarden.”
William
George 1849 - 1849
Anne
1852 - 1853
Emma
1852 1853
James
1853 – 1925
Thomas
1855 – 1931
Charles
Moore 1858 – 1870
George Hall
1860 - 1938?
Henry
1862 - 1868
Alfred
Strathmore
1868 – 1946
Arthur
1871 - 1942
Thomas had 4 sons who survived and from whom the
present lines of the Bowes Family of Brompton are descended.
Alfred
1858-1946
Arthur
1871-1942
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