Elizabeth Bowles

• Name: Elizabeth Curd
• Gender: Female
• Marriage Date: 2 Dec 1764
• Marriage Place: St James Northam Parish,Goochland,Virginia
• Spouse: John Bowles
• FHL Film Number: 975.5 V2D https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60214&h=10...

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Elizabeth CURD,92, died before 1830.

Married John Bowles 2 Dec 1764.

John Bowles was born 1743 Hanover Co VA; d. 5 Aug 1836 Union District, SC.

Elizabeth CURD and John BOWLES were married on 2 December 1764. John BOWLES, son of ??? BOWLES, was born on 8 June 1743 in Hanover County, Virginia. He died on 5 August 1836 at the age of 93 in Union District, South Carolina.

I do not know for sure that Knight and John Bowles were brothers. They were contemporaries, both married Curd daughters [though not from the same family] and had children baptized about the same time at St. James Northam in Goochland.

John Bowles, married Elizabeth Curd, 2 Dec 1764, The Douglas Register. She was the daughter of John Curd and Elizabeth Price and first cousin of Sarah Curd who married Knight Bowles. On 16 Jan 1759, there was a division of the estate [slaves] of John Curd which named wife Elizabeth and the following children: John, William, Joseph, Mary, Charles, James, Elizabeth, and Ann Curd. [Goochland records. Deed & Will Book 7, p.336]. The estate division assigned to the widow her dower, three slaves, and divided the rest among the eight children. Commissioners were Willm. Miller, Joseph Pollard, and Richd. Pleasants. 3 Sep 1758, the widow Elizabeth Price Curd married Richard Oglesby.

John and Elizabeth had four of their children, Benjamin, Sarah Waddie, Nancy, and Betsy Price, baptized at St. James Northam as recorded in The Douglas Register. The family left Virginia, settling in Union District, South Carolina. John's will names four living children, Benjamin Bowles, Charles K. Bowles, Sally W. Glenn, Betsey Bowles, and two deceased children, daughter Nancy Johnson and John Bowles. This list does not match any particular list of children found online. It is my interpretation of the Will. I believe a Thomas Bowles mentioned in the Will was a son-in-law, the husband of Betsy, not John's son. He would have been eligible for "his part" as the husband of a daughter.

However, the exact dates for the births of all six children were found online and it would seem they have come from a Bible record - they did not come from the Bowles book found on Google Books. Four of the birth dates are found in The Douglas Register, Goochland Co, VA. A son John was not among those baptized and the birth date given for him is a different John Bowles. The list of John's children in the Bowles book included a Mollie [instead of Betsey] who married Thomas Bowles, and did not include a daughter Nancy who had married a Johnson, and had a Betsy who married Robert Glenn which doesn't seem to work unless Betsy was married more than once. An examination of the The Douglas Register shows the only Molly Bowles baptized to have been a daughter of Knight Bowles & Sarah Curd. Given the names of the children in the Will, I believe there was no daughter of John's named Molly and that it was Betsy who was married to Thomas Bowles.

Transcribed to FIND A GRAVE by Patrina Hill Gotcher Perkins.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Nov 12 2020, 14:56:55 UTC