Saturday, July 4, 2015

Surname Saturday - BOWERS (England to colonial New England)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1131 who is Ruth BOWERS (1616-1686) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through one generation of this BOWERS family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

34. Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840)
35. Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869)


70.  Thomas Dill (1758-1836)
71.  Hannah Horton (1761-1797)

140.  Thomas Dill (1708-1761)
141.  Mehitable Brown (1714-1758)

282.  Samuel Brown (1686-1739)
283.  Ruth Young (1688-1768)

564.  George Brown (1658-1721)
565.  Mehitable Knowles (1653-1721)

1130.  Richard Knowles, born 1614 in Lancashire, England; died 03 June 1675 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 25 March 1639 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
1131.  Ruth Bowers, born 1616 in Lincolnshire, England; died 1686 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Richard Knowles and Ruth Bowers are:

i. Mercy Knowles, born about 1640 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died Bef. 1692 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; married Ephraim Doane 05 February 1667 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; born about 1645 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died before 19 April 1700 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
ii. John Knowles, born about 1644 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died 03 June 1675 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States; married Apphia Bangs 28 December 1670 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; born 13 October 1651 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died Aft. July 1722 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
iii. James Knowles, born 17 November 1648 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 10 October 1678 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
iv. Samuel Knowles, born 17 September 1651 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died 19 June 1737 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; married Mercy Freeman December 1679 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; born July 1659 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died before 17 April 1745 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
v. Mehitable Knowles, born 20 May 1653 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died 1721 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; married George Brown 1674 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
vi. Barbara Knowles, born 28 September 1656 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died 23 February 1714 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; married Thomas Mayo 13 June 1677 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; born 16 November 1652 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died 22 April 1729 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
vii. Ruth Knowles, born 03 November 1658 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died 28 August 1714 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; married Joseph Collins 20 March 1671 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; born about 1648 in Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died 18 February 1724 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.


Information about Ruth Bowers ancestry is limited.  She may be the daughter of George Bowers of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Knowles family information was obtained from:

1)  Charles Thornton Libby, "The Knowles Family of Eastham," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 79, Number 3 (September 1925), pages 288-292.

2)  Virginia Knowles Hufbauer, Descendants of Richard Knowles 1637-1973 (San Diego, Calif. : Ventura Int'l, 1974).

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