Brief Life History of Raymond Victor Pomeroy
When Raymond Victor Pomeroy Bowditch was born on 21 October 1916, in Creech St Michael, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edward Bowditch, was 31 and his mother, Eliza Annie Theresa Ricketts, was 30. He married Emily Claire Edsall on 19 November 1941, in Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He died on 4 August 1985, in Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 68, and was buried in Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Raymond Victor Bowditch, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1918
WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
1921 · Racing Schooner Launched
The Bluenose racing schooner was launched on March 26, 1921, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. It was evident that the ship was nothing like other ships that had been launched.
1939 · Britain Enters World War II
Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Bowditch in Chardstock (Devon, formerly in Dorset). The placename probably derives from Middle English bove the diche ‘above the ditch’ (Old English būfan dīce).
History: The surname Bowditch is well known in New England. Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838), author of The Practical Navigator (1772), a standard work that went through more than sixty editions, was born in Salem, MA, the son of a shipmaster. The family can be traced back, via a clothier who settled in New England in 1671, to Thorncombe in Devon in the early 16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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