Birth: Circa 1702
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 29 August 1734 Topcroft, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Barfoot 1709-1744/58
Marriage: 8 May 1758 Redenhall With Harleston and Wortwell, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Archer c1716-1792
Death: December 1786 Wortwell, Norfolk, UK
Burial: 29 December 1786 Redenhall With Harleston and Wortwell, Norfolk, UK
By Elizabeth Barfoot
Elizabeth Gower [Adams] 1736-1802
Samuel Gower 1738
Rebecca Gower 1739
Sarah Gower 1741
Francis Gower 1744
I cannot locate his birth about 1702 from his burial.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 for Samuel Gower and Elizabeth Barfoot on 29 August 1734 in Topcroft, Norfolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for the marriage of Samuel Gower and Elizabeth Barfoot on 29 August 1734. "Married Samuel Gower Singleman and Elizabeth Barfoot Singlewoman (from Wortwell) by Banns Aug 29th."
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 for the marriage of Samuel Gower and Elizabeth Barfoot on 29 August 1734 in Topcroft. "Married in the Year 1734 1734 Samuel Gower Singleman & Elizabeth Barfoot Singlewoman from Wortwell by Banns Aug:29th."
His children were born in Wortwell from 1736 to 1744, and his wife died before 1758 although I cannot find an entry for her burial.
Two entries in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for the for the marriage of Samuel Gower and Elizabeth Archer on 8 May 1758 in Redenhall with Harleston and Wortwell "1758 [page] 9 [...] Banns of Marriage between Samuel Gower Widower & Elizabeth Archer Singlewoman were published April 23d, 30th. & May 7th.[...] No. 35 Samuel Gower of this Parifh Widower and Elizabeth Archer single of this Parifh Married in this Church by Banns this eighth Day of May in the Year One Thoufand Seven Hundred and fifty eight [... both made their marks]" and "Samuel Gower Widower & Elizabeth Archer Spinster both of this Parish May 8th by Banns".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for the marriage of Samuel Gower and Elizabeth Archer on 8 May 1758 in Redenhall With Harleston "Marriages 1758 [...] Samuel Gower to Elizabeth Archer by Banns May 8th".
Two entries in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 for the burial of Samuel Gower on 29 December 1786 aged 84 in Redenhall with Harleston and Wortwell, England. "Burials 1786-7 [...] December [...] Gower Samuel of Wortwell aged 74 a Pauper 29 [...] 1787" and "Samuel Gower Husbandman of Wortwell Decm 29th Aged 84 Years"..
There are nine entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Samuel Gower.
Wortwell is seven miles south of Topcroft on A143 with Redenhall and Harleston a little further west.
Samuel Gower was my fifth great grandfather.
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