Another line to chase for pinnacles

Having reached the end of the lines of the Sylvester family ancestors, let's see where we can go by looking at their offspring and then back up to more ancestors on my line.  Captain Nathaniel Sylvester and Grisselle Wase Sylvester's daughter, Ann Sylvester Bowers (1669-1745) married Captain Jonathan Bowers (1673-1750) in Boston in 1695.  They had both been born in America, but of their parents, only his father had also been born in America.

To go back along the Bowers line, Jonathan's father was Benanuell Bowers (1627-1698) who was born and died in Cambridge Massachusetts. He was my 7th great grandfather.

He is a character, a Harvard graduate, and had a lot of documentation about his life as a Quaker, vs. the Puritans of early Cambridge MA.  I dedicated a whole post to himself and his wife's life HERE.

His father George Bowers (1590-1656) was born in Lincolnshire, England.  The English Origins of New England Families, Second Series, Vol. 1, including additions and corrections in a footnote, gives excellent information on George Bowers. He had arrived in Scituate with the Plymouth Colony by 1639, but moved to Cambridge for the rest of his life. He had married Barbara Smith of Brythwell, in Brythwell England in Feb. 1614/15.

Going on up the tree's branches his father was Thomas Bowers (1565-1659) who was born in Yorkshire and died in Lincolnshire, England.  I don't really believe that he and his wife lived into their late 80s and 90s... as their death dates could have been misleading...in all probability.  His wife was Iwerner Elizabeth Minster (Minister) Bowers (1570-1659).  If you are interested in these dates, you will probably notice she had 2 children, George and Richard, in 1590 and 1600 respectively.  I'm pretty sure these are "approximately" dates.

One source (recent, not a primary source) speaks as if Irwirner Minster was a place...and that George was the third child of Thomas' third wife.  That doesn't help much. And the same source thinks Thomas may have been a descendent of Richard de Bures, Normandy to England.

I'm not changing my tree yet based on that information.  So today I've gone as far as Thomas Bowers, who was 9th great grandfather.  But wait, there's also a father and mother just listed on the tree for him.

How about Edmond Bower, Gentleman (1513-1570) and wife, Joan Moggeridge Bower (1509-1565)?  They are the 10th great grandparents in this line, but these dates are difficult to cope with.  They may have married in 1558, probably in Lincolnshire, or maybe Norfolk.  The hardest date of all to believe is the birth of their son, Thomas, when Joan was 55 years old.  She could not have been born past 1509, since that's the year her own father died.

As often seems to happen, there is a possibility another generation has been lost to time, with the same names.  But here are the end of the Bowers line.

No, I'm wrong again....more tomorrow. There are more Bowers ancestors.