I'm glad to not be an archeologist, who would literally get dirt under her fingernails. At least my digging is all digital and I'm glad to spend hours doing it. The actual records are often available and very interesting, showing much more than the Ancestry highlight often.
We've been looking at my grandmother's line, Ada Swasey Rogers, with a lot of her ancestors from New England. Are there any more that go back 12 or 13 generations?
Ii just posted about Ammi Ayers and her husband Samuel Swasey Their son, Joseph Swasey married Mary Bowers. Let's go up to the top the branches of her family tree today.
At the top there's Elizabeth Iwerner Minster Bowers, (b. 1570 in First (Manby), Lincolnshire, England, d. 1659 in Manby Lincoln, Yorkshire, England.) Iwerner is my eldest matriarch for this branch of my tree, and a 9 times great grandmother.
She married Thomas Bowers in 1590 in Lincoln, England.
So I could look for Manby, Lincolnshire. And then Manby Lincoln, Yorkshire. These are not the same county again, and I can't persue it unfortunately. I'm glad someone left records of their births and marriage and deaths.
Iwerner and Thomas Bowers had a son, George Bowers, in 1590 in Manly, Lincolnshire, Eng. And Iwerner died in 1659 in Manby Lincoln, Yorkshire, England as well. She is the first of my matriarchs who didn't even come to America. I am handicapped by not understanding the Lincoln vs. Lincolnshire counties of England. If anyone wants to give me better information (from the16th century) please comment!
George Bowers first married Barbarie (Barbara) Smyth (b.1596 in Braithwell, Yorkshire, England, d. 25 Mar 1644 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts) They married in Braithwell, Eng. in 1614. I did try to find information about Braithwell...
"Braithwell Facts
Well, apparently all the fun people moved away from Braithwell. There must have been some good farming at any rate.
The George Bowers had one or two children in England, then their next children were born in Connecticut or Massachusetts. Their son Benanuell Bowers was born in 1627 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, and died on 28 May 1698 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
Benanuell Bowers married Elizabeth Marie Dunster (1632-1692),
Their son Jonathan Bowers (1673- 1750) was born in the American colonies, and he and his wife Ann Sylvester (1669-1745) had a daughter, Mary Bowers (1719-) who married Joseph Swasey, (1714-1801) as mentioned above.
But soon I'll climb further out on the branch of our tree to see about the earlier Bower ancestors.
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