Edmund Bowker

Edmund Bowker was born on 6 Jan 1610 in Dorchester. He arrived in America about 1646. He married first Ellen Smyth, daughter of Thomas and Ann Smyth of London, about 1647 in Massachusetts.

Children: John (married Mary How).

After Ellen died in 1659 he married Mary Margaret Potter about 1660 in Massachusetts.

Children: Elizabeth, Edmund, Mary. He died on 14 Mar 1666 in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

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Individual: MARRIAGE: 1st marriage from "First Bowkers in New England", by Edgar M. Bowker; National Genealogical Society Quarterly; Vol. 4; No. 3, 1915; pg41-43. Marriage (2) from Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlersof New England Before 1692; Savage; Pg 223.

DEATH: RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project, Doneva Shepard's family. Same from "Rosine Sarah Buker Genealogy".

FOOTNOTE: The "Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England before 1692, says "Edmund arived in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1646. He married Mary Potter, removed to Sudbury, Massachusetts, diedMar 1666." He was a Member of the Artillary Co. in 1646.

DESCENDANTS: Gordon Bowker; RR 1, Sawyerville, Quebec, Canada JOB3A0; gbowker@

8 Jun 1667. Undated: "An addision to the Inventarie of the [e]state of Edmund Bowker ateste by me Daniel [Bouchr?] administrator"

[Note: this file is very sparse containing nothing more than the three items shown. It shows his wife is Margaret, but also appears to suggests she was not his only wife...]

From https://emptybranchesonthefamilytree.com/2018/07/edmund-bowker-died...

He was born c1619 in England, but his birth place has not yet been proven.

The Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England before 1692 says that Edmund arrived in Dorchester in 1646, married Mary Potter, removed to Sudbury, Massachusetts and died in March 1666. However, Torrey’s New England Marriages to 1700 questions the identity of Edmund’s first wife as Elizabeth Smith/Mary Potter?, leaving the question unresolved.

Edmund is thought to have had two wives, which makes sense for a man born c1619 and living in the Boston area in 1646. There is an Ellen Bowker who died on 21 January 1659/60 in Boston. No other information is given about her or her age and her maiden name is unknown, if she was an adult.

Edmund’s widow, named in the probate administration, is Margaret. She remarried to Thomas Holbrook Sr. of Sherborn on 26 January 1668/69. Margaret died 9 April 1690, also in Sherborn.

There are three who are named as children of Edmund Bowker in their birth records:

1. Elizabeth, born 5 March 1659, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts; married Thomas Lund, 28 March 1679, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
2. Edmund, born 13 December 1661, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died 1706; married Sarah Paramenter, 29 March 1688, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
3. Mary, born 15 April 1665, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died 1692, Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; married Thomas Holbrook Jr., 20 January 1684, Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts

References

• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Edmund_Bowker_%282%29