William Bowen

Abt 1632 - Abt 1686  (54 years)

• Name	William Bowen
  Birth	Abt 1632	Wales   [1, 2]
  Immigration	1638 (6 years)	Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1, 2, 3]
  He arrived in Boston with his parents and brothers and sisters.
  Married	say 1650 (18 years)  [1, 4]
  unknown. Issue: 1. William Bowen
  Occupation	1652 (20 years)  [1, 2]
  He was a mariner out of Bristol, England and Roxbury, Massachusetts.
  Death	Abt 1686	Turkey   [1, 2, 4]
  He was "A Christian Captive to the Turks." A ransom was raised in Roxbury, but arrived too late.
  Siblings	3 brothers and 6 sisters
  1. Margaret Bowen,   b. Abt 1628, Wales d. 13 Sep 1692, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 64 years)   2. Francis Bowen,   b. Abt 1630, Wales   3. William Bowen,   b. Abt 1632, Wales d. Abt 1686, Turkey  (Age 54 years) + 4. Lt. Henry Bowen,   b. 1633/34, Llangenydd (now Llangennith), Glamorganshire, Wales d. 13 Mar 1723/24, Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, U.S.A.  (Age 90 years) ▻ Elizabeth Johnson,  m. 20 Dec 1658 ;   Susanna King,  m. 14 Apr 1684   5. Mary Bowen,   b. Abt 1636, Wales d. 31 Oct 1707, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 71 years)   6. Elizabeth Bowen,   b. Abt 1637, Wales d. 2 Mar 1712/13, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 76 years)   7. Esther Bowen,   c. 10 Feb 1638/39, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 28 Mar 1654, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age ~ 15 years)   8. Abigail Bowen,   c. 10 Apr 1641, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   9. Peniel Bowen,   c. 5 May 1644, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   10. Deriah Bowen,   b. 7 Apr 1647, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 13 Apr 1647, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 0 years)
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Meirion   (62 x Great Grandfather)  Alice Herbert  (2 x Great Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I19311
  Last Modified	7 May 2019

  
  

  Father	Lt. Griffith Bowen,   b. About 1600, Llangenydd (now Llangennith), Glamorganshire, Wales d. About 1676, probably London, England (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Margaret Fleming
  Family ID	F114	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1William Bowen(Abt 1632 – Abt 1686) 2Lt. Griffith Bowen(1600 – 1676) 4Francis Bowen 8Phillip Bowen of Slade(Abt 1583 – Abt 1603) 16Gruffudd ap Owen of Slade 17Ann Bury 9Elsbet Vaughn 18Hopkin John Vaughn 19 5Ellen Franklyn 10Thomas Franklyn 20 21 11 22 23 3Margaret Fleming 6Henry Flemming of Gellihir 12 24 25 13 26 27 7Alice Dawkins 14Jenkin Dawkins 28 29 15Elizabeth Jenkin 30William Jenkin 31Alice Herbert

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Abt 1632 - Wales Immigration - 1638 - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Death - Abt 1686 - Turkey  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S1031] Lawson, Stephen M. Ancestry of Stephen Lawson - Bowen, (Online http://sml.simplenet.com/smlawson/bowen.htm. Printout dated 12 March 1998). [S279] Bowen, Georgene E. Bowen - The Ancestry of Griffith Bowen of "Burryhead" Llangenydd Parish, Glamorgan County, Wales and One Line of American Descendants Through the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut and the Bowens of Charlstown, New Hampshire, (manuscript, 1960). [S59] Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 Fifth Editionif, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982). [S295] Bowen, Edward Augustus. "Griffith Bowen of Boston", (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume XLVII, 1893).