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William Bowhey [B 70683/40] • Photograph

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Summary

Studio portrait of William Bowhey who was born in March 1850 in and died in September 1922.

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Physical description

Photograph (digital copy)

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1895

Photographer

Owen, C. A

Collections

Part of Album Collection
Part of Slee Collection

Subject

Bowhey, William, 1850-1922

Catalogue record

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General notes

Individual images can be viewed by doing number searches on B 70683/1 to B70683/73.

William Bowhey served in Adelaide Metropolitan Foot Police 1873-1875: 'William Bowhey to be Constable, vice Miller, transferred to the Northern Territory Police.(SA Government Gazette, 23 May 1873, page 3) Richard Oyer to be Constable, vice Bowhey, resigned'. (from SA Government Gazette, 15 May 1875, page 3).

William Bowhey was born in Plymouth, Devon and worked on the family farm at Torrens Road, Kilkenny until 5 May 1873 when he joined the SA Police as a 3rd Class Foot Constable. He married Sarah Copley. He resigned on 13 March 1875 to join his brother George as partner in a chaff mill at Modbury until about 1894. After that the couple lived at Gawler where William was a businessman. William and Sarah had no children. He died 2 Sept 1922 and Sarah died 1937. [from information provided].

Digitisation information

Date

10/06/2008

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,532 x 4,175 pixels (10.6 MP)

Size

31.74 MB

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