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last male representative and owner of that and 

 other family estates in Bowden Middlecale. By 

 his marriage with Mary Needham, of Rushop, 

 he had issue one son, John Bower, who died De- 

 cember 28th, 1756, under age, and one daughter, 

 Sarah Bower, who, on her father's demise, suc- 

 ceeded to all his real and personal estates, which 

 were very considerable. She died in the prime 

 of life, unmarried. 



" Disappointment, like a worm in the bud, 

 Had fed upon her damask cheek." 



For she possessed great personal attractions. She 

 bequeathed the whole of her landed and personal 

 property to her mother, who survived her, and 

 at her decease it passed into the ancient and re- 

 spectable family of the Needhams, of Rushop and 

 of Perry Foot, at which latter place the family 

 has descended in regular succession from the reign 

 of Charles II., in the names of Robert Needham, 

 until the decease of the last member of that 

 family of that name, which took place in 1844. 



The family residence at Tor Top still remains, 

 and the surrounding lands, now in the occupa- 

 tion of and forming part of the extensive calico- 



