The Bowles of Pembrokeshire, WalesBack to The Bowles of Wales The Pembrokeshire Record Office
(Archives of Wales) has a Newton Estate and Bowlas and Child
Families Archives collection (Ref: GB 0213 D/RTP/New) covering a
period from 1475 to 1872 which is described as:
Context: Administrative and biographical history: Newton, in the parish of Llanstadwell, Pembrokeshire, was once the residence of the Craddock family; they were succeeded by the Bowlas family, from about 1554-1795. The property was left to Lewis Child by the will of Samuel Bowlas in 1794. Elizabeth Bowlas Child left the estate to her sister Jane Child. The Newton Estate included several farms in Llanstadwell parish, including Watwerstoen and Newton Noyes. It was sold in 1871.
Content:
Title deeds and estate papers of the Newton estate,
Llanstadwell, Pembrokeshire, comprising: Newton house,
1554-1867; Newton Noyes, 1797-1859; Sunny Hill,
1835-1850; Waterstone, 1755-1863; Rectory of
Llandstadwell, 1611-1871; other properties, 1475-1862;
personal papers, 1790-1856; and wills, settlements and
related papers, 1609-1872.
The Bowlas spelling is quite definite
but many of the documents from that
period refer to the Bowles family of
Newton in Llanstadwell parish. For
example the account books of the Sheriff
of Pembroke county in 1634-35 refer to
Crown Rents on Newton in occupation of
Roger Bowles and also to some land at
Leeterston which Walter Bowles late of
Westfield purchased back in 1531 (22
Henry VIII).
The following entry accompanies the previous one on a Wales genealogy site but without any source for either so I include it here just for comment. This indicates a connection with a Bowles in Wiltshire or at least someone's belief in one. This would be consistent with the Bowles of Monmouthshire's connection to the Bowles of Wiltshire through the Seymour family: Richard Bowles b. ~ 1600 of Edmondston, Wiltshire m. Catherine Woodd of Oxford, Oxfordshire (parents: Basil Woodd of White Abbey, Alderbury, Shropshire; Eleanor Denham of Borstall, Buckinghamshire)
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