Thanks for all the suggestions Most BOWNEs are related 2 BOWNEs came to the USA in 1635. I am trying to find their common ancestor. They were from Matlock and Yorkshire I have 200 BOWNEs born England before 1595 and I am trying to find how they are related. My project (15 Years) has been gathering info on the BOWNE family. I have 5,000 BOWNEs and 250,000 allied families related to a BOWNE born all years and all countries I will help with Seattle info Thanks Audrey Bowne Seattle State of Washington USA acbowne1@yahoo.com   check out the BOWNE family website   http://www.bownehouse.org Flushing NY built 1666

From: Audrey Bowne <acbowne1@yahoo.com> > Thanks for all the suggestions > Most BOWNEs are related > 2 BOWNEs came to the USA in 1635. I am trying to find their common > ancestor. They were from Matlock and Yorkshire > I have 200 BOWNEs born England before 1595 and I am trying to find > how they are related. > My project (15 Years) has been gathering info on the BOWNE family. I > have 5,000 BOWNEs and 250,000 allied families related to a BOWNE > born all years and all countries< With the greatest respect, it might have been better if you had told us this in the first place, Audrey. Your initial query came across as that of a beginner - well, it did to me anyway, and I endeavoured to answer you with that in mind. It does help if you give the fullest information first time round! > check out the BOWNE family website >   > http://www.bownehouse.org < Very impressive. However, though of course I haven't had the time to search your website thoroughly, nowhere did I see any mention of variants. Are you restricting your researches to just one spelling of the name only? In my humble opinion, as a member of the Guild of One-Name Studies and formerly editor for 10 years of the Journal of One-Name Studies, this is somewhat restrictive. As I am sure you know, the name originated from Bohun in La Manche, France. Variants include BOON, BOONE, BOWN, BONE and BOHUN. Who knows, you may be distantly related to the legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734-1820), whose grandfather was a weaver from Exter who migrated to Philadelphia circa 1717. And, of course, the name De BOHUN is prominent in the aristocracy. One Humfridus de Bohun appears in the Domesday Book, William the Conqueror's great survey of England in 1086, and I note you say on your website that the "Bownes of England could trace their ancestry back to William the Conqueror's time and were connected to many titled and powerful families". Do you have the actual documentary evidence that John Bowne, who migrated to Boston from Matlock in 1649 was a direct descendant of the de Bohuns? From 1086 to 1627, when you say John was born, is a very long time and there would have been a great many links in between to prove. I am not questioning your researches, you understand, just being curious because one hears so many times how someone is descended from William the Conqueror or from that time but very often the evidence isn't there and it's pure speculation or wishful thinking! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

Dear Audrey, I am willing to stand corrected by someone from Yorkshire, but Matlock is in Derbyshire. On streetmap.co.uk there is not another Matlock in the UK. What you are attempting is a mammoth task and given that lots of our ancestors could not read and write let alone spell, nigh on impossible. Chris ________________________________ From: Audrey Bowne <acbowne1@yahoo.com> To: "yorksgen@rootsweb.com" <yorksgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 0:43 Subject: [YORKSGEN] BOWNE in Yorkshire Thanks for all the suggestions Most BOWNEs are related 2 BOWNEs came to the USA in 1635. I am trying to find their common ancestor. They were from Matlock and Yorkshire I have 200 BOWNEs born England before 1595 and I am trying to find how they are related. My project (15 Years) has been gathering info on the BOWNE family. I have 5,000 BOWNEs and 250,000 allied families related to a BOWNE born all years and all countries I will help with Seattle info Thanks Audrey Bowne Seattle State of Washington USA acbowne1@yahoo.com   check out the BOWNE family website   http://www.bownehouse.org Flushing NY built 1666 ..... Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message