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    Fowkes, Captain Henry

    Male Abt 1690 - 1729  (~ 39 years)


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    • Name Fowkes, Henry 
      Title Captain 
      Born Abt 1690  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Died 1 Dec 1729  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I00644  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 16 May 2015 

      Family Skeate, Anne,   b. Abt 1695, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 8 Apr 1737, Ludgershall, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 42 years) 
      Married Abt 1725  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F00299  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Possibility:
        Will of Henry Fowkes or Fowks, Commander of His Majesty's Ship Chatham 10 June 1730 PROB 11/638. Wife Ann Fowkes, Sister Ann Fowkes senior, sister Carolina Banister, All of St Martins in the Field.

        "Notes and Queries 1863 s3-III(56):69; doi:10.1093/nq/s3-III.56.69-b
        © 1863 by Oxford University Press
        This Article
        CAPTAIN SIR HENRY FOWKES
        JAMES KNOWLES "

        HAPPY (14) Snow-sloop Built in 1711, Woolwich DY.
        Sold in 1733.
        1727 Cdr. Henry FOWKES, West Indies. Brought home the body of Vice Adm. HOSIER who had died at sea on 8th. May after an illness of five days. HAPPY arrived at Spithead in December.

        It appears the navy had many ships names Chatham particularly one built 1691 and scuttled in 1749 and one built 1716 and sold in 1742.

        The Commissioned Sea Officers Of The Royal Navy 1660-1815 Volume 1
        Fowkes, Henry
        Names F 333
        L. 14.12.1711

        Will of Ann Fowkes, Widow of Saint Andrew Holborn, Middlesex 18 February 1734 PROB 11/663