The Bowman Clan

England

• Bardsley, C.W. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901.

• Barrow, G.W.S., ed. The Charters of David I: The Written Acts of David I King of Scots, 1124-53, and of His Son Henry, Earl of Northumberland, 1139-52.  Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 1999.

• Baxter, Angus. In Search of Your British and Irish Roots. 4th Ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1999.

• Bede, The Venerable. Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People). Available through Internet Medieval Sourcebook, the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.

• Bell, Robert. The Book of Ulster Surnames. Belfast: Blackstaff, 1988. (ISBN-10: 0-85-640416-0)

• Bullock, L.G. Historical Map of England and Wales. Edinburgh: Bartholomew and Son, 1971.

• Burke, Sir Bernard. Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry: Including American Families with British Ancestry.(2 Vols.) London: Burke Publishing, 1939.

• Burke, Sir Bernard. General Armory: of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Ramsbury: Heraldry Today, 1989 (1884 edition)

• Burke, Sir Bernard. Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, The Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage. London: Burke Publishing, 1921.

• Burke, John Bernard Ed. The Roll of Battle Abbey. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 2005 (1848). Chadwick, Nora Kershaw and J.X.W.P. Corcoran. The Celts. London: Penguin, 1970. (ISBN 0-14-021211-6)

• Cook, Chris. English historical facts, 1603-1688. London: Macmillan, 1980.

• Cottle, Basil. The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames, 2nd ed. London: Penguin, 1978.

• Holt, J.C. Ed. Domesday Studies. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1987. (ISBN 0-85115-477-8)

• Hopkins, Andrea. Knights: The Complete Story of the Age of Chivalry from Historical Fact to Tales of Romance and Poetry. New York: Artabras, 1990. (ISBN 0-89660-013-0)

• Humble, Richard. The Fall of Saxon England. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1975. (ISBN 0-88029-987-8)

• Ingram, Rev. James. Translator. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1823. (Compiled on the orders of King Alfred the Great in 1890).

• Kamen, Henry. European Society, 1500-1700. London: Hutchinson, 1984. (ISBN: 0-09-156991-5)

• Le Patourel, John. The Norman Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. (ISBN 0-19-822525-3)

• Leeson, Francis L. Dictionary of British Peerages. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1986. (ISBN 0-8063-1121-5)

• Lennard, Reginald. Rural England 1086-1135: A Study of Social and Agrarian Conditions. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959.

• Macaulay, Thomas Babington. History of England from the Accession of James the Second. 4 volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1879.

• Marcham, Frederick George. A Constitutional History of Modern England, 1485 to the Present. London: Harper & Brothers, 1960.

• Markale, J. Celtic Civilization. London: Gordon & Cremonesi, 1976.

• Marshall, George William. The genealogist’s guide to printed pedigrees. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1885.

• Crispin, M. Jackson and Leonce Macary. Falaise Roll: Recording Prominent Companions of William Duke of Normandy at the Conquest of England. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1985 (1938). (ISBN: 9-78-080630-0801)

• Debrett, J. Debrett’s Peerage and Titles of Coutresy 1891. London: Dean and Son, 1891

• Elster , Robert J. International Who’s Who. London : Europa/Routledge, Published annually since 1935.

• Fairbairn. Fairbairn’s Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland. 4th ed. 2 volumes in one. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1968.

• Hanks, Patricia. and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. (ISBN 0-19-211592-8)

• Hinde, Thomas, Ed. The Domesday Book: England’s Heritage, Then and Now. Surrey: Colour Library Books, 1995. (ISBN 1-85833-440-3)

• Hitching, F.K and S. Hitching. References to English Surnames in 1601 and 1602. Walton on Thames: 1910 (ISBN 0-8063-0181-3)

• Mills, A.D. Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991 (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)

• Papworth , J.W. And A.W. Morant. Ordinary of British Armorials. London: T. Richards, 1874.

• Reaney P.H. And R.M. Wilson. A Dictionary of Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991.

• Shaw, William A. Knights of England: : A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of all the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Knights Bachelors. 2 Vols. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing , 1971 (reprint of 1906). (ISB: 080630443X )

• Shirley, Evelyn Philip. Noble and Gentle Men of England; or, Notes Touching The Arms and Descendants of the Ancient Knightly and Gentle Houses of England: Arranged in their Respective Counties. Westminster: John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, 3rd Ed. 1866.

• Thirsk ,Joan ed. et al. The Agrarian History of England and Wales. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 7 volumes.

• Williams, Dr. Ann, and G.H. Martin eds. Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992.

  Australia

• Davison, Graeme, John Hirst and Stuart McIntyre Eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian History. South Melbourne: Oxford U. Press, 2001. 

• Fraser, John Foster. Australia: The Making of a Nation. London: Cassell, 1911.

• Flynn, Michael, The Second Fleet, Britain’s Grim Convict Armada of 1790. Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1993. (ISBN 0-908120-83-4)

• Gillen, Mollie. Yvonne Browning and Michael Flynn. The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet. Sydney: Library of Australian History 1989.

• King, Jonathan. The First Fleet: The Convict Voyage That Founded Australia 1787-88. London: Secker & Warburg 1982.

• O’Brien, John, and Pauric Travers. Irish Emigrant Experience in Australia. Dublin: Poolbeg, 1991.

Trusted Web Sites

• British History Online: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/United Kingdom National Archives:

• http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/College of Arms (England): http://college-of-arms.gov.uk/

• Library and Archives Canada: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/

• The National Archives (USA): http://www.archives.gov/

• www.houseofnames.com 888-468-7686

Medieval Rolls

• Where available we consult Medieval rolls or use their information as reprinted in secondary sources.

• Assize Rolls: records from court sessions

• Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem: Feudal inquiries, undertaken after the death of a feudal tenant in chief to establish what lands were held and who should succeed to them. Records exist from around 1240-1660.

• Curia Regis Rolls (Rotuli Curiae Regis): Rolls and Records of the Court held before the king’s Justices. Variously translated and published , London 1835),

• Register of the Freemen of York: list of freemen from 13th-18th century, published by the Surtees Society, Francis Collins (editor)in 1897.

• Historia Regum Britanniae (“The History of the Kings of Britain”): a legendary account of British history, accredited to Geoffrey of Monmouth in around 1136.

• Hundred Rolls ( Rotuli Hundredorum): various royal inquests, documents were held in the tower of London. Much was published in 1818Ragman Rolls: rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. D. 1296.

• Subsidy Rolls: taxation records from the 12th to the 17th centuries.

• Pipe Rolls: rolls of the Exchequer of accounts of the royal income, arranged by county, for each financial year. Many 12th and 13th century documents have been published with indexes by the Pipe Roll Society.

• Roll of Battle Abbey: a list of the principal Norman Knights said to have accompanied William across the English Channel. Original roll was lost.

• Feet of Fines: Legal agreements, usually about property ownership

• Charters: documents recording grants, usually of land recorded by the Chancery

• Heralds’ visitations: 16th-17th century, county by county visits to regulate the use of arms; many published by the Harleian Society.

  Heraldry

• Brooke-Little, J.P. An Heraldic Alphabet. London: Robson, 1985.(ISBN 0-86051-320-3 PB)

• Elvin, C.N. Elvin’s Handbook of Mottoes: Revised With Supplement and Index by R. Pinches. London: Heraldry Today, 1971. (ISBN 0-900455-04-7)

• Foster, Joseph. Dictionary of Heraldry: Feudal Coats of Arms and Pedigrees. London: Bracken Books, 1989. (ISBN 1-85170-309-8)

• Fox-Davies, Arthur. A Complete Guide to Heraldry. New York: Bonanza, 1978. (ISBN 0-517-26643-1)

• Fox-Davies, Arthur. Heraldry: A Pictorial Archive for Artists & Designers. New York: Dover, 1991. (ISBN 0-486-26906-X)

• Koller, K. and A. Schillings. Armorial Universal. Brussels: Libraire Encyclopédique, 1951.

• Parker, James. Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry. Rutland, Vt: Tuttle, 1970. (ISBN 0-8048-0715-9)

• Pine, L.G. Heraldry and Genealogy. London: Teach Yourself Books, 1970. (ISBN 0-340-05614-2)

• Puttock, Colonel A.G. Dictionary of Heraldry and Related Subjects. London: John Gifford, 1970.

• Uden, Grant. A Dictionary of Heraldry. London: Longmans, 1968.(ISBN 582-15471-9)

• Von Volbroth, Carl-Alexander. Heraldry: Customs, Rules and Styles. London: New Orchard, 1991. (ISBN 1-95079-037-X)

• Williamson, David. Debrett’s Guide to Heraldry and Regalia. London: Headline Book Publishing, 1992.

• Woodcock, Thomas and John Martin Robinson. The Oxford Guide to Heraldry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. (ISBN 0-19-285224-8)

  Emigration

• Bolton, Charles Knowles. Scotch Irish Pioneers In Ulster And America. Montana: Kessinger Publishing, 2006 (1910).

• Bowman, George Ernest. The Mayflower Reader: A Selection of Articles from The Mayflower Descendant. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1996 (reprint)

• Colletta, John P. They Came In Ships. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1993.

• Filby , P. William an d Mar K. Meyer. Passenger and Immigarion Lists Index. In Four Volumes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985. (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)

• Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Galveston, Texas 1896-1951. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

• The Norman People: And Their Existing Descendants in The British Dominions and the United States of America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1975. (ISBN 0-8063-0636-X)

• Samuelsen, W. David. New York City Passenger List Manifests Index, 1820-1824. North Salt Lake, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems International, 1986

• Sanders, Joanne McRee ed. English Settlers in Barbados, 1637-1800. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing,

• Seary, E. R. Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland –Corrected Edition. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998. (ISBN 0-7735-1782-0)

• Skordas, Gust, Ed. The Early Settlers of Maryland: an Index to Names of Immigrants, Compiled from Records of Land Patents, 1633-1680, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968.

• Smith, Leonard H. Jr. Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867 - Volume I. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992.

• Thomas, Wilson B. and Emily S. Wilson. Directory of the Province of Ontario. Lambertville, NJ: Hunterdon House, 1857.

• Virkus, Frederick A. Ed. Immigrant Ancestors: A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America Before 1750. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1964

• Whyte, Donald. A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada Before Confederation. Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1986.(ISBN 0-920036-09-0)

  Citations

• ^ Smith, Eldson Coles, New Dictionary of American Family Names New York: Harper & Row, 1956. Print