see Francis Place's Autobiography p 42 (Place's schoolmaster)
Francis Bowis tailor Holywell Street voted Vandeput 1749
Francis Bowis taylor of St Clement Danes wid marr. lic 12.2.1750 Mary Sutton of Holborn wid at St Bride's
Francis son of Francis & Mary Bowis bapt 22.12.1751 St Clement Danes
John son of Francis & Mary Bowis bapt 4.3.1753 St Clement Danes
Francis son of Francis & Mary Bowis bapt 15.9.1758 St Clement Danes
Mary Bowis (adult) buried 8.3.1759 St Clement Danes
Francis Bowis tailor Windsor Court voted Mountmorris & Mahon 1774
Francis Bowis ratebooks Windsor Court 1784
Francis Bowis bur 11.5.1786 St Mary le Strand
will dated 5.12.1808 proved PCC 27.1.1809 of John Bowis bach of Bridge Road Battersea formerly of Windsor Court buried 20.12.1808 St Mary le Strand left folio of Paradise Lost to William Martin of Maresfield, Sussex, also mentioned children of late John Dowson of Barnes, children of Samuel Dowson of Barnes, children of Margaret Warner of Woodside near Croydon, all school desks to John Boon schoolmaster of Cherry Garden St, Bermondsey and his wife Sarah, John Chamberlain Garrett of Bermondsey St and Mary Chamberlain Garrett his mother. Admon granted 15.8.1838 to Margaret wife of Michael Waters dau of John Dowson, and Lucy wife of John Cook, dau of Samuel Dowson