Bowman Brothers

The Bowman brothers were pioneer pastoralists of Tasmania (then "Van Diemen's Land") and South Australia. They were the sons of John Bowman (1785 – 1 June 1857, born Askham, Westmorland): Edmund Bowman, John Bowman, William Charles Bowman and Thomas Richard Bowman.

Edmund Bowman (1818 – 14 August 1866) was born in Askham, Westmorland, and emigrated to Hobart, Tasmania with his parents and siblings. He travelled to Adelaide on the Parsee in 1838 to investigate South Australia as an investment opportunity and returned on the Porter in 1839. He helped his father establish farms and residences at Dry Creek, Enfield and Crystal Brook. He died after falling from a log bridge at his property near Port Wakefield.

John Bowman, Jr. (1828 – 3 August 1900) was born in Cumberland, and accompanied his parents and siblings to Hobart. John and William Charles arrived in South Australia together as youngsters, accompanying their father's herd of sheep.

He was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1868 but otherwise took little part in public affairs. He acquired Poltalloch station near Tailem Bend; he and his brother William Charles, trading as Bowman Brothers, bought Cheshunt House on the Meander River 16 km above Deloraine, Tasmania.

John, hitherto a bachelor, at age 52 married William Charles's widow Jane and purchased a home, "Carolside" in New Town, Tasmania. Their son Keith Dudley was a prominent Adelaide businessman.

In 1886, he acquired land at Bethanga FlatWodonga, Victoria which was taken over by his step-son Albert Edward (ca.1865 – 1938). He may be the John Bowman convicted of insulting a railway official at Wodonga in 1889, after his cane had been stolen and his hat knocked off by some "larrikins".

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