born: 17 June 1779 Toller Porcorum.

married: firstly - Dec. 1817 Mary Elizabeth Kirkham. She died May 1820.

secondly - March 1822 Frances Louisa Taunton. born: 1800, died: 27 Feb. 1857, Kempson, Beds.

died: 1 March 1842, Dorchester.

He was Surgeon R.N. and served in many ships of war during the early part of the nineteenth century:

The Thunder from Jan 1804 to Sept. 1805. The Barfleux from March 1808 to May 1809 and Oct. 1811 to Oct. 1812. Present at the evacuation at Corunna 1809. The Ramillies from Oct. 1812 to 1815. Admiral Sir T M Hardy Bart. GCB was appointed to the Ramillies in August 1812 until June 1815. The Ramillies was the last ship on which Henry Plowman served as surgeon before he married. He lived at 9 Portman Street, Portman Square, London until 1826. There after he spent one or two years on the Sussex coast, where he was employed as Surgeon RN, visiting such places as Littlehampton, Bognor, Goring, Worthing etc.. This began about February 1827 and ended about 19 Sept. 1828, from that date he retired on half pay for life. About Michaelmas in the same year 1828 he and his wife went to Charminster , Dorset, and there they resided until the first week in April 1831, when they began residence in South Street, Dorchester. He appears in the Register of Voters of Dorset 1838-9 as voter number 5498, qualifying by the "Lease of Land for Years" with a Robert Phelps listed as tenant. Henry Plowman was buried on 7th March 1842 in a new family vault in St. Peter's Church, where there is also a small mural tablet to the memory of both he and his wife.

his daughter by his first wife:

1. Emily Mary

born: Sept. 1818, 9, Portman Street

died: May 1819, 9, Portman Street.

his children by his second wife:

2. Thomas Henry Plowman

born: 7 March 1830 Charminster, bapt. 5 April 1832 St. Peter's, Dorchester. Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy Bt was a godfather.

married: Mary Carter Smith, 4 Feb. 1862. She died 16 Feb..

died: 23 February 1911, Kew, Surrey.

B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge 1853. M.A. 1857.

He married Mary at St. Lukes, Old Charlton, Kent. She died at bath and was buried in the Locksbrook Cemetery.

His diary for 1890 is held by the Society of Genealogists..

3. William Taunton Plowman

born: 6 Oct. 1831 Dorchester

married: Catherine Ann Handstaff 5 Sept. 1859

died: Missing 20 April 1865

He became M.R.C.S. Engl. in 1853; M.D. St. Andrews in 1854 and L.S.A. London in 1858. He was married at Hatch Branchamps, Somerset. Afterwards he resided at St. Austell, Cornwall. But returning from a second voyage to Australia, made unaccompanied by wife or child, he left Moreton Bay, Queensland on 1 April 1865 onboard the "Fieray Star". On 20 April he put off in one of the boats, the ship being on fire, and was never seen again.

his daughter;

1 Frances Louisa Taunton

born: 30 Nov. 1861 St. Austell.

4. John Herbert Plowman, of whom presently: