Ann Bourne (abt. 1590)

Born about 1590 in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales

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Disproven Marriage

While there may have been an Ann Bourne, daughter of Thomas Bourne and Elizabeth Roos, she was NOT the wife of Richard Bowen, emigrant to Rehoboth, Massachusetts.^[1] The initial introduction of this error was in 1884, on a pedigree chart attached to the Memorial of the Bowen Family, which added a wife Ann with no source or explanation in the text of the publication.^[2] This was called out as a fabrication by Richard LeBaron Bowen Jr. in "The Ancestry, Wives and Children of Richard Bowen of Weymouth and Rehoboth, Massachusetts" in 2001.^[1]

A review of the sources listed in New England Marriages Prior to 1700^[3] turned up only a single reference to a last name. In the Genealogy column of the Boston Transcript 21 September 1925, a response to a query stated that Richard Bowen married "Ann Born."^[4] All other publications either did not mention his first wife, or only referred to her as Ann. [Note LBDF&P 227 or 4:227 could not be found]

Biography

Ann Bourne was reportedly born in about 1590, Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales the daughter of Thomas Bourne and Elizabeth Roos ^[5] Please note that this information and the attached parents are all unsourced.

Research notes

Review of sources indexed by Torrey:^[3]
[Note: I couldn't find the second reference for LBDF&P [LBDF&P 4:110 ,227] Volume 4 did not have a page 227 Cole-12288 17:24, 23 May 2021 (UTC) ]

No mention of first wife:

• Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1862) https://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich/page/222/mode/2up
• Boughton, Willis A. Arnold, Redway and Earle Families: Descendants of Edward Arnold, Born Perhaps in 1730-40, Comfort Redway, Born in 1760, William Earle, Born About 1760; and Other Genealogical Tables. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1948. https://archive.org/details/arnoldredwayearl00boug/page/79/mode/2up
• Plymouth Colony Vital Records. Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, v19 (1917) p 71 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB407/i/12573/71/139441392

Ann(e) ______

• Frost, Josephine C., Ancestors of Frank Herbert Davol and His Wife, Phebe Downing Willits (F.H. Hitchcock, New York, 1925) Page 36 Ann____
• White, Emma Siggins. Genesis of the White Family (Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., Kansas City, Mo., 1920) Page 207. Ann _____
• Bowen, Clarence Winthrop. The History of Woodstock, Connecticut (Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass., 1926-1943) Vol 2, Page 610 (go to online page 655. Ann _____
• Lineage Book of the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America. Washington: Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, 1913 Vol 4, Page 110 Anne _____
• Torrey, Clarence Almon. "Some Ancestral Lines of President William Howard Taft," The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, . v22 (1945) p 206. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/11863/206/134785961 Ann _____

Ann Born

• Boston Evening Transcript: Genealogy Pages, 1911-1940. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016. American Ancestors.org (by subscription) "Genealogical" 21 September 1925 Page 10, Col 3, "Answer from HAFN to Query 2474 .

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Richard LeBaron Bowen Jr., "The Ancestry, Wives and Children of Richard Bowen of Weymouth and Rehoboth, Massachusetts," in The American Genealogist, vol. 76 (October 2001):264. AmericanAncestors.org (by subscriptions).
2. ↑ E.C. Bowen, Memorial of the Bowen Family, Boston: Rand, Avery (1884), esp. pp. 94-103; digital copy (HathiTrust.org).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. v 1, Page 280. AmericanAncestors.org (by subscription)

   BOWEN, Richard1 (-1674/5) & 1/wf Ann [?BORN]; Eng or Wales, by 1627, by 1622; Rehoboth {Bowen Chart; Sv. 1:222; Davol-Willets 36-7; White (,10) 207; Bos. Trans. 21 Sep 1925; Woodstock 2:610; LBDF&P 4:110 ,227; TAG 22:206; Arnold (1948) 79; MD 19:71}

4. ↑ Boston Evening Transcript: Genealogy Pages, 1911-1940. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016. American Ancestors.org (by subscription) "Genealogical" 21 September 1925 Page 10, Col 3, "Answer from HAFN to Query 2474 .
5. ↑ Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree 8531262 NOTE: Dead link as of May 23, 2021