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Personal Ancestry List - Individual Data Sheet
Richard BOWEN
- b: ABT 1585 Swansea,Glamorgan,Wales
- d: FEB 1674/1675
His Partners:
from :David Bedell, University of Bridgeport
The most recent source for this family is in a place you wouldn't find
except by luck: an appendix to Carl Boyer, _How to Publish and Market
Your Family History_, 2d ed., 1985. The appendix is an example of how to
lay out a family history, and it just happens to be that of the Bowen
family. It includes Richard Bowen, his children and grandchildren, and a
Bowen bibliography. Boyer also published data in a book _Ancestral
Lines_ (1975) and then _Ancestral Lines Revised_.
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Clarence Almon Torrey, _New England Marriages Prior to 1700_
(Baltimore, 1985):
BOWEN, Richard (-1674/5) & 1/wf Ann [?BORN]; Eng or Wales, child
b 1627, b 1622; Rehoboth
BOWEN, Richard (-1675) & 2/wf Elizabeth MARSH (-1675+, 1675?), widow
of George; Weymouth, Nov 1648; Hingham
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From Mackenzie, _Colonial Families of the United States_ v3
(Baltimore, 1920), p60:
SIR JAMES BOWEN, of Wales, m. Mary HALE, dau. of John HALE, Esq.,
who m. Margaret, dau. of Thomas ap Griffith ap Nicholas. He had a
son:
MATHIAS BOWEN, of Wales, m. Mary PHILLIPS, dau. of John PHILLIPS,
Esq., of Pictou Castle. He had a son:
JAMES BOWEN, of Wales, m. Eleanor GRIFFITH, dau. of John GRIFFITH,
Esq., of Richley, son of Sir William GRIFFITH, Penrhyn Knight. He had
a son:
RICHARD BOWEN, b. in Wales; came with his wife, Anne, and children
to New England, in 1638; lived a short time in Salem and Boston,
Mass., but was of Rehoboth, in 1643, where he d.; buried 4th Feb. 1675;
will probated 4th June, 1675; m. (secondly) Elizabeth (surname
unknown [Marsh?]), d. 1675, who is mentioned in his will together
with the names of his children.
ISSUE
I. Alice, b. in Wales; m. in Salem, Mass., 1636, Robert WHEATON, b.
1606, d. 1696. [President Taft was their descendant (_Boston
Transcript_ genealogical column May or Jun 1909, 280 "Wheaton").
More in file WHEATON.DOC]
II. Thomas, b. in Wales; m. in Essex Co., Mass., Elizabeth (surname
unknown). He made his will in Rehoboth, 11th Apr. 1663; his
widow m. (secondly) before 1669, Samuel FULLER, of Plymouth.
III. William, d. in Rehoboth, 10th Mar. 1687; came from Wales with his
parents.
IV. Richard, b. in Wales. [Mackenzie continues with his issue]
V. Sarah, b. in Wales; buried 14th Oct. 1676; m. Fuller (probably
Robert), d. 10th May, 1706, who was a freeman in Rehoboth, in
1658. [see lineage in file B-SARAH.DOC]
VI. Obadiah, b. in Swansea, Wales, 1st Sept. 1627; m. about 1649,
Mary CHILTON [should be CLIFTON?]. He was one of the first
settlers of the new town of Swansea, Mass., named by him in honor
of his birthplace. [more in file B-OBADIA.DOC]
VII. Ruth, b. in Wales; m. _____ LEVERICH [should be George KENDRICK?].
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The Mayflower Descendant published the wills of Richard Bowen
(17:247-251) and of Obadiah and Thomas Bowen (18:204-211). Other
sources give Richard's first wife as Ann(a). He apparently came from
Swansea, Wales, which is where son Obadiah was born.
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995
From: "Dahrl E. Moore"
According to Gary Boyd Roberts and a couple of articles I found, the
parents of Richard Bowen are not verified, and it is not necessarily
true his father was James Bowen, as many other articles stated.
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From Mackenzie, v4, p161:
William Bowen was a lineal descendant of Richard Bowen of
Glamorganshire, Wales, who settled in Massachusetts, 1634; the
tradition is that Evan, gd. son of Owen, Lord and owner of the estate
of "Pentre Even" in Wales, assumed the name of Bowen by contracting
the _ap_ and _ah_ to Owen and it thus became Bowen; the ancestors of
Owen or Bowen have been traced to Belimauer or Belimamer, an ancient
King of Britain, whose reign antedated the Roman invasion 100 years
B.C.
The Arms of the Bowen family are given as follows: _Azure_, a stag
argent, vulned in the back with an arrow ppr. _Motto_: Qui male
cogitat male sibi.
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A depiction of the Bowen arms can be found in Virkus, _The Compendium
of American Genealogy_, v5, p127:
__________________________
| |
| V V V V | Azure, a stag argent, vulned
| V VVV | in the back with an arrow,
| VV_VV | attired or.
| /o _) /|_ |
| c==__ ) /// | Motto: Qui male cogitat
| / / /_/ | male sibi.
| / (____/_____/) |
| ( / \ |
| \ | |
| //-------\_ | |
| // \\ |
| || || |
| /_/ /_/ |
\__ __/
\__ __/
\__ __/
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