Ruth BOWER

[26976]

1620 - 1687

Family 1 : Richard KNOWLES
  1. +Samuel (Esq.) KNOWLES
  2. +Barbara KNOWLES
  3. +Mercy KNOWLES
  4. +John KNOWLES
  5. +Ruth Duty KNOWLES

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[26976] http://www.murrah.com/gen/bower.htm states that Ruth is daughter of George Bower and offers: "George Bower was born in Manley, Yorkshire, England, the son of Thomas Bower. Most report that Thomas' wife was Iwerner Minster, but that appears to be the name of the place where the family originated. Before 1620 George married Barbara Smyth of Braithwell, Yorkshire, Eng. He was in Plymouth Colony before 1637 where he was a planter. He lived initially at Scituate and the moved to Plymouth in 1639. He later moved to Cambridge. ... Barbara died in 1644 at Cambridge, and George married next Elizabeth Worthington...." Ancestry.com offers: "Bower Name Meaning - Scottish: occupational name for a bow maker, Older Scots bowar, equivalent to English Bowyer. English and Scottish: from Middle English bur, bour 'bower', 'cottage', 'inner room' (Old English bur), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in a small cottage, an occupational name for a house servant who attended his master in his private quarters (see Bowerman), or a habitational name from any of various places, for example in Essex, named Bower or Bowers from this word."

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Cornelius BROWN

[39600]

CA 1781 - 1 APR 1869

Family 1 : Mary Elizabeth BURN
  1. +Albert BROWN
  2.  David B. BROWN

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[39600] This person is from the unverified Kaech/O'Donnell Family Trees in Ancestry.com in 2015.

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Jan Gerretse DORLANDT

[34974]

1629 - 1711

Father: Gerret Janssoon DORLANDT
Mother: Annitjen Dirksdockter DIRK

Family 1 :
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[34974] This person is from the unverified Wood Family Tree in Ancestry.com in 2013 which states he arrived in New York, NY ca 1655.

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Elizabeth LANE

[27416]

CA 1665 - 21 OCT 1764

Family 1 : Robert AVERY
  1. +John AVERY

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[27416] "Colonial Families," Vol. 7, p. 32, posted on Genealogy.com, states Elizabeth is daughter of John Lane (of Malden, MA) and Sarah ____. "Lane Name Meaning - English: topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin 'descendant of Laighean', a byname meaning 'spear', or 'javelin'. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain 'descendant of Luan', a byname meaning 'warrior'. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Liatháin (see Lehane). Southern French: variant of Laine. Possibly also a variant of Southern French Lande." - Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press.

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Rebecca NICKERSON

[58799]

3 JUN 1746 - 10 NOV 1842

Family 1 : Winthrop SMART
  1. +Joshua SMART

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[58799] The unverified file LQ5N-Z1L in familysearch.org offers: "When Rebecca Nickerson was born on 3 June 1746, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Rev. Joshua Nickerson, was 26 and her mother, Thankful Eldredge, was 18. She married Winthrop Smart in 1768, in New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 10 November 1842, in Searsport, Waldo, Maine, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Searsport Village Cemetery, Searsport, Waldo, Maine, United States."

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Humphrey PINNEY

[44072]

20 NOV 1605 - 20 AUG 1683

Family 1 :
  1. +Isaac PINNEY

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[44072] The unverified Churchill Family Tree in 2018 in Ancestry.com offers: "Humphrey Pinney was born on November 20, 1605, in Hardington, Somerset, England. He married Mary Hull on May 14, 1634, in Norfolk, Massachusetts. They had one [known] child during their marriage. He died on August 20, 1683, in Windsor, Connecticut, having lived a long life of 77 years, and was buried there. Mary Hull was born in Crewkerne, Somerset, England. She married Humphrey Pinney on May 14, 1634, in Norfolk, Massachusetts. . . . She died on August 20, 1684, in Windsor, Connecticut."

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