Elizabeth [Rowden] [Brock] Eayre: A Note By Milton Rubincam In the National Genealogical Society Quarterly for June 1965 was published an article by Lewis D. Cook entitled, "Marriage Intentions, 1685-1730, Burlington County, N. J." Among the declarations of intentions recorded on page 129 appears the following: "Richard Airs and Elizabeth Brock, Oct. 5, 1704." The bride's name is erroneously stated. It was not Brook but Brock, and her family connections are well known. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Bowden or Rawden, and she belonged to a Yorkshire family. Her father's name is unknown, but her mother was Elizabeth Chorley1 who married [1] ...Rowden [Rawden], probably of Wistow, co. York, [2] Joshua Maude, of Wakefield, Yorks [license issued in 1667], and [3] 20.5mo.1676 [by Quaker ceremony] at Rainhill, Lancashire, Dr. Thomas Wynne, the distinguished Welsh Physician who accompanied William Penn on the Welcome in 1682; and subsequently became the first Speaker of the Pennsylvania General Assembly. By Rowden she had one daughter, Elizabeth, the heroine of our story, and by Maude she had Jane and Margery Maude.2 Her union with Wynne was childless, but by his first wife, Martha Buttall, of Wrexham, co. Denbigh, North Wales, he was the father of Mary, Rebecca, Sydney [a girl], Hannah, Tabitha, and Jonathan Wynne. Dr. Wynne's family came to Pennsylvania in successive migrations. His oldest daughter, Mary, her husband, Dr. Edward Jones, and their children arrived in the Lyon of Liverpool, 13 August 1682.3 Dr. Wynne, accompanied possibly by his wife [who, however, may have come on a later vessel] came aboard the Welcome, landing at Upland [now Chester], 28 October 1682.3 his second daughter, Rebecca Wynne, and his young stepdaughters, Jane and Margery Maude, had a stormy, fear-laden voyage in the Submission; it left England on the 6th of the 7th month [September] 1682, and did not drop anchor until the 2nd of the 9th month [November] at Choptank, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.4 Because of the violent storms it entered the Chesapeake Bay rather than Delaware Bay. It is no known when Elizabeth Rowden came to America; she may have been with her stepfather, or her step and half-sisters, or she may have come by herself. She is probably about 16 years old in 1682. Soon after arrival Elizabeth fell in love with a young fellow named John Brock, from Bramhall, Cheshire, who had come to Pennsylvania aboard the 1. Francis James Dallett, F.G.S. P., "Mrs. Thomas Wynne of Philadelphia and Her Family Corrections to the Pedigrees of Wynne and Maude," The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine vol. XXII, no. 4, 1962 pp 222-223. 2. Ibed., p. 224, note 6. 3. Marion Rubincam Balderston, "The Real Welcome Passengers," reprinted from The Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. XXVI, November 1962, p. 52; George E. McCracken, Ph.D., R.A.S.G., "Welcome Notes," Part 2, H. "The Wynne Family," The American Genealogist, vol. 39, Jan. 1963, pp 4-7. 4. "The Sailing of the Ship 'Submission' in the Year 1682, with a True Copy of the Vessel's Log." Publications of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, vol. I [1895-98], p. 10. Becky's Notes: Errors or additional information that may help some one: Information on mr. Rawden: "Mrs. Thomas Wynne of Philadelphia and her family" Corrections to the pedigrees of Wynne and Maude by Francis James Dallett. F.G.S.P., p. 223, #7, 7. Rawden was a well-known Yorkshire name. But the identity of Elizabeth's first husband is unknown. He may have been the John Rawden of Wistow, whose estate was probated 12 July 1667, the year of Elizabeth's marriage to Joshua Maude. "Index of the Wills and Administrations entered in the Registers of the Archbishops at York, being Consistory Wills, &c.," Yorkshire Archaeological society Record Series, XCIII (1936), 60, citing Register Vol. 33, folio 89. More probably, her first husband, Mr. Rawden, was of Drax, her residence at the time of her marriage. When they sailed: "The Rise of Thomas Wynne (A Welsh Quaker)' Geraint H Jenkins PhD in The Journal of the Flintshire Hist. Soc., P. 53, Welcome on 30 August 1682.83 With him he took his wife, Elizabeth. Following the death of his first wife, Martha, Wynne had married for the second time on 20 July 1676, winning the hand of Elizabeth Maude of Rainhill, Lancashire, herself a widow of Joshua Maude of the Cliffs, Wakefield in Yorkshire. His daughter Mary, wife of Dr. Edward Jones, and possibly his son Jonathan, had already sailed on the Lyon and had arrived, after a relatively pleasant eleven-week journey, in the Schuylkill River on 13 August 1682. Another daughter by his first marriage, Rebecca, aged twenty, and his two step-daughters, Jane, aged fifteen, and Margery, aged eleven, travelled on the Submission, which left Liverpool on 5 November 1682.84 Wynne's other step-daughter, Elizabeth Rowden, brought two other daughters, Sidney and Hannah, on the Morning Star, which sailed from Liverpool in September 1683 and arrived in Philadelphia on 14 November. His one remaining daughter, Tabitha - the black sheep of the family - did not emigrate. And Also: Extracts at Devonshire House and from the original book at Somerset House, Lancashire Meeting Records, Monthly Meeting at Hardshaw East, "Thomas Allen Glenn "Merion in the Welsh Track with sketches of the Townships of Haverford and Radnor, Printed for Subscribers, Norristown, 1896", " Thomas Wynne, of Carwis, in the County of Flint, in Wales, Chirurgeon and Elizabeth Maud, of Rainhill, in Lancashire, were joyned together in marriage ye 20th day of ye 5th month 1676 at John Chorley's house in the presence of Alexander Chorley, ffaith Chorley, John Chorley, Alice Southworth, John Barnes, Ester Sixsmith, Bruen Sixmith, Sarah Gandy, Sam: Dunbabin, Bridget Wilson, John Southworth, Alice Dunbabin, William Crowdson, Margaret Dunbabin, James Wright, Mary Southworth, William Sixmith, Alices Barnes." Carwis is intended for Caerwys, which was the place of residence of Thomas Wynne at the time of this marriage. It is very doubtful whether any of the witnesses were related to him. They may have been to Elizabeth Maud. Alexander Chorley and John Chorley were brothers. The latter married Ellen, daughter of John Barnes, of Warrington. Bruen or Bryan Sixmith (Sixsmith?) has already been mentioned. He was at one time a draper in Wrexham. He had a shop in High Street, next to the Golden Lion. At the time of his death in 1692 he was a resident of Great Sankey. His brother, William, who died in 1698, was living in Ashton, both places near Rainhill, southern part of Lancashire, east of Liverpool. He may have been a connection of the Buttalls, as certain given names are used in both families. ["This Elizabeth Rowden is one of the witnesses to the will of Richard Thomas, late of Whitford Garne, County of Flint"] [Page 265] Joshua Maud, of Wakefield, Yorkshire, believed to have been a son of John Maud, of Alverthorpe, was the first husband of Elizabeth. [Error here he says her maiden name was Parr. This is wrong.] By him she had a son named Joshua, who remained in Wakefield; a daughter Jane, who removed to Pennsylvania and was married to a man by the name of Willbank, [Is this an error for Wiltbank. Helminus Wiltbank, a Swede, was a very early settler new Lewis. His descendants are numerous. T. A. G.] but died without issue, and a daughter Margery. The latter married. "Paver's Marriage Licenses, Vol. II", Yorkshire Archeological Society Record Ser. VOL. XLII (1909), pg. 110, "Paver's Marriage Licenses, Volume II" in the Yorkshire Archeological Society Record Series, Volume XLIII (1909), page 110, publishes an abstract of the license issued in the year 1667 to "Joshua Maude, gentleman, 38, Wakefield," and "Elizabeth Rawden, widow, 34, Drax." 6 >From this it is evident that when the Widow Maude married Dr. Wynne in1676, she herself had been married not once before, but twice; her first husband had been a Mr. Rawden 7 and her second Joshua Maude. Thus she, not the other vague and actually non-existent second wife of Dr. Wynne, was the mother of Elizabeth (Rowden Rawden) Brock. Thomas Wynne's supposed third wife was in fact identical with his second wife, but he was her third husband. "Maude of West Riddlesden, Yorkshire", Alfred R. Justice Collection Vol. 16, 5, Collections of the Genealogical Soc. of PA., Alfred R. Justice, one of Philadelphia's leading genealogists a generation ago, states unequivocally in a genealogical study, apparently never heretofore noticed in print, that Elizabeth Rawden Maude Wynne was born Elizabeth Chorley, one of ten children of John Chorley, armiger, of Rainhill, Lancashire, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh Ley of Liverpool .12 Mr. Justice extensively developed the Chorley pedigree. In view of the fact that Elizabeth's marriage to Thomas Wynne took place at John Chorley were witnesses (Justice's theory would make the men her brothers), this statement is quite possibly correct. "Chorley of Chorley, Lancashire," Justice, GSP, Vol. 5, 75, In which she is #43 of that record. "Maude of West Riddlesden, Yorkshire", Alfred R. Justice Collection Vol. 16, 5, Collections of the Genealogical Soc. of PA.. Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, VOL. XXIII, William Penn's Twenty Three Ships, with notes on some of their passengers., Pg. 47, (75) John Brock of Bramhall, according to the certificate mentioned in Note 74 above, was single. "The good he hath are his own being given him by his parents as his portion," the certificate noted. He contracted with Charles Pickering in Liverpool "in the yeare 1682" for Pickering to "bring [over] a passenger for this province," but was "dispointed of the sd passenger as he was not brought as above." As a result, Brock brought suit in Bucks Co., in 1686 to recover the L5 12s 6d. he had paid Pickering for the passenger's fare, and which William Yardley and Thomas Phillips, arbitrators, had awarded Brock in 1683, but which Pickering had so far neglected to pay. Bucks Court Records, 35, 36. Brock m. Thomas Wynne's step daughter Elizabeth Rawden in 1684, when he was sheriff of the county. Ibid., 9. Job Houle and Eliza Eaton (Heaton?) came on the Friends Adventure as servants to John Brock. Houle (howell) appears to have been the son of Thomas Howell (Hould) who settled in Southamton Twp., Bucks Co. See Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 58 675; Bucks Court Records, 177, 203, 274, 378. Hugs Cuz Becky ttg-inc@comcast.net http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ttg13/