Thomas Bowne
Shearman, or cloth-worker, of Matlock, Derbyshire, of the family at the Lime Tree there, and probably the youngest son of Anthony Bowne. In 1649 he came to Boston with his son John and his daughter Dorothy, later the wife of Edward Farrington, and lived at Flushing, Long Island, where he died in 1677, aged upwards of 82. Father of John Bowne of Flushing.
Life
- 1595Bornbp. 25 May 1595, Matlock, Derbyshire, England
From his son John's journal, since "The Matlock registers do not commence till 1637" (Field, pp. 112, 115). The Frost Genealogy has "July 25, 1595."
compiledprobableSources
- Osgood Field, The Fields of Sowerby, near Halifax, England, and of Flushing, New York, with some notices of the families of Underhill, Bowne, Burling, Hazard and Osgood (1895)
- History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family (1914)
- John Insley Coddington, "A Bowne Problem," The American Genealogist 19 (January 1943), reprint
- Josephine C. Frost, The Frost Genealogy: Descendants of William Frost of Oyster Bay, New York (1912)
- 1677Died18th of 7th mo. 1677, Flushing, Long Island, New York
The Friends' register, as quoted by Field (pp. 113-114), "which adds, 'aged upwards of 82.'" The 7th month, before 1752, is September: 18 Sept 1677, as the Frost Genealogy has it on p. 352 (on p. 22, "July 18"). Coddington has 18 Aug 1677.
documentedprobableSources
- Osgood Field, The Fields of Sowerby, near Halifax, England, and of Flushing, New York, with some notices of the families of Underhill, Bowne, Burling, Hazard and Osgood (1895)
- Josephine C. Frost, The Frost Genealogy: Descendants of William Frost of Oyster Bay, New York (1912)
- John Insley Coddington, "A Bowne Problem," The American Genealogist 19 (January 1943), reprint
Family
- Father
- Anthony Bowne
"Anthonie Bowne of the Lime Tree in the psh of Matlock, yeoman," whose will of 1 Dec 1619 names his "youngest son, Thomas Bowne." Field: "there is hardly a doubt" that this was the Thomas who sailed in 1649; Thomas's own will of 1675 names "his brother John," who administered Alice Bowne's estate in 1634.
compiledprobableSources
- Osgood Field, The Fields of Sowerby, near Halifax, England, and of Flushing, New York, with some notices of the families of Underhill, Bowne, Burling, Hazard and Osgood (1895)
- Reasoning:
research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md
- Mother
- Alice (Ales) Bowne
"my wife Ales Bowne," executrix with Thomas of Anthony Bowne's will, 1619; administration on "Alice Bowne, late of the Lyntree near Matlocke," 12 Sept 1634, to "John Bowne of Matlocke, yeoman, son of the deceased." That she was Thomas's own mother, not a stepmother, is not shown.
- Children
Pedigree
Notes
Father of John Bowne of Flushing. A shearman, or cloth-worker, of Matlock in Derbyshire (source), of the family at the Lime Tree (the Lintree), a house in Matlock whose lane was still called Lime Tree Lane in 1873 (source, p. 114).
Of John Bowne, Yarnall writes: “He was the son of Thomas Bowne, of whom little is known, except that in the year 1649, he, with his daughter, Dorothy, accompanied his son John on his voyage to Boston, and that he subsequently lived and died at his house in Flushing” (source, p. 45). Dorothy married Edward Farrington, a magistrate of Flushing who signed the Flushing Remonstrance in December 1657 and was arrested for it on 1 January 1658 (record, pp. 403-404). Thomas made his will in 1675, naming “his brother John,” and died at Flushing in September 1677 while his son was in England with his wife Hannah, “aged upwards of 82” (source, pp. 113-115).
His wife is unknown. WikiTree’s suggestion that she was a Ludlam comes from a novel and is not used. Field (p. 116) wondered whether the name was originally Bohun, from a resemblance of arms, and said “the author cannot say”: unsupported.
Research: research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md.
Open questions
- His wife’s name.
- The 1619 will of Anthony Bowne and the 1634 administration of Alice (Lichfield), and Thomas’s own will of 1675.