This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wJB.2ACE/921.1.1.2.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: My line also is of Wales (as far as I have researched). I have that my line was in Westmoreland County, VA in 1780 (John Bowen married Rachel Drake, 1787) and his son lived in Prince William County, VA. (son John Bowen married Nancy Johnston, 1811). John died and widow Nancy and family migrated to Kentucky in 1827 or later. They had seven or possible 8 children. The names I have of this family, Burkett Johnston Bowen, James Bowen, Ann Bowen Suddith, Mary Bowen Ransdell, and Lucinda Bowen Berry (also in my searching, I have another sister (no name as yet) married to Benjamin McPike). Several of this family is buried in Cane Run Baptist Cemetery (now Port Royal) in Henry County, Kentucky. Could your Thomas Bowen be of this family? I know that Burkett was born in 1812. Perhaps Thomas was a brother to John. Haven't found out very much about John Bowen (either one of them), I have no birth dates on these two. If I can answer anything else, let me know. Mary