Leith
Bowker
Born in Guba, Cape Colony
Ancestors 
Brother of
Charles Lennox Stretch Bowker, William Henry Bowker, Aubrey Snyman Bowker, Mitford Tamplin Bowker, Mary Magdalene Snyman (Bowker) Cockcroft, Robert Mitford Bowker, Rose Innes Bowker, Sarah Elizabeth Hart Bowker, Graham Douglas Bowker, Kenneth Eric Bowker, Lyndon Erle Bowker and Egerton Bowker
Husband of
Marion (Ochse) Bowker
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 85
in Standerton, Transvaal, South Africa
Profile last modified
| Created 24 Apr 2015
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Biography
Leith was born in 1884 in the Cape Colony; e was the son of William Henry Bowker and Helena Wilhelmina (Snyman) Bowker.
He married Marion Ochse with whom he had the following children:
- Moira (Bowker) Armstrong
- Leith Harold Parker
Leith passed away at the age of 85 in Standerton on 12 June 1970; there is a Death Notice but it could not be found on the microfilm?[1] He is buried with Marion in the Standerton New Cemetery.[2]
Sources
- ↑ State Archives, Transvaal, TAB, Death Notice, MHG, Leith Bowker, Surviving Spouse Marion Bowker, Ref 6191/70, 1970
- ↑ Added by Des Lynch on 9 December 2020
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Leith by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Leith:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Leith by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Leith:
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~1.56%
Teresa (Shaw) Gauthier
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A392448 [compare], Ancestry member babe101_956
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~0.78%
Sharon (Langeveld) Jacob :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch SM3767268 [compare], Ancestry member Sharon_jacob
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~0.39%
Gwen (Kruger) van der Walt :
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch ED6000306 [compare]
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