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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Other Bower ancestors...


What about Joan Bridmore Bower?

Just because she was married to one of the John Bowers, there are a ton of hints about her...maybe some will be about the Bridmore family. All the hints available (including other trees) didn't have any parents listed. And the majority of them were about people in different centuries.  I am getting so tired of this.

She was a 12th great grandmother.

BIRTH 1451  Tisbury, Wiltshire, England

DEATH ABT 1588  Mere, Wiltshire, England


She and her husband John Bower Jr. (1478-1498) had one son, Robert Bower (1493-1517).  That was enough to keep my line going!

But John Jr.'s mother was interesting, and I don't think we chased her line back yet.

Dame Edith Elizabeth Gresley (Bower)


BIRTH 1462  Drakelow, Derbyshire, England

DEATH 1523  Mere, Wiltshire, England


Some ancestor trees say she was born in Colton, Staffordshire.  She married in 1477 to John Bower Sr. and a year later gave birth to John Jr. (my suffixes to names to try to keep them straight). John Sr., her husband died the next year.

She remarried Sir John Gifford, who's not in my line. She had probably had a daughter by him 15 years prior to the marriage.  At least that's what the tree says.    There's also another daughter she may have had at age 13, and there's no marriage date with Sir John Montgomery.

She died in 1523, after her son John Bower Jr. had died in 1498.

Her father was:

Sir Thomas de Gresley Baron of Chartley-Sheriff of Staffordshire


BIRTH 1435  Derby, Derbyshire, England

DEATH 26 APR 1502  Colton, Staffordshire, England


his wife was

Lady Anne Ferrers, Lady of Tamworth Castle, Baroness Gresley of Chartley 

BIRTH NOV 1445  Tamworth Castle, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England

DEATH 9 JAN 1499  Colton Hall, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England


I'll go further into her lineage, but one footnote said her father's line goes back to Edward I.  This isn't the first time I've found Burke's to say one of my ancestors derived from royalty.


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