Charles Bowles of Chathams Family Tree
See
The Bowles of Chatham
Charles
Bowles b. ca. 1612
(of Rochester and Rome House, Chatham, Kent (descended from
The Bolles of Gosberton)
Clerk
to the Check at Deptford 1636, Captain of 2nd Horse
Regiment 1651, Receiver General of the War Tax 1656, High Sheriff of
Kent 1658)
m. Agnes
(called Ann) Cole of Woodbridge, Suffolk (bp. March 5, 1618/19
Woodbridge;
Thomas Cole of Woodbridge)
Oct. 26, 1637 St. Mary, Woodbridge, Suffolk
1.
Charles Bowles (Rev'd.)
b. ~ 1639 (BA Queen’s College, Oxford 1658; Vicar of Shorne,
Kent 1667; Vicar of Cobham, Kent 1668)
m. Elizabeth
(b. ~ 1642) ~ 1662
1.1
John Bowles bp. May 21, 1664
Chatham St. Mary, Kent,
bur. July 19, 1664
Chatham St. Mary, Kent
1.2 Carolina
Bowles
bp. July 19, 1666
Chatham St. Mary, Kent
m. Thomas Rogers of Gravesend 1686
Charles
d. Dec. 16, 1670 bur. Rochester, Kent
Elizabeth m.(2) Rev. Robert Dixon of Stockbury Apr. 25, 1673 St
Sepulchre’s, London (reference above)
2. Agnes Bowles bp. May 31, 1640 Chatham
St. Mary, Kent
3. John
Bowles of Eltham bp. Feb. 27, 1642 (1641/42 Old Calendar)
Chatham St.
Mary, Kent
(of
Mark Lane and Eltham. Set up factory at Ratcliff, Southwark in
1677 to manufacture crown glass. In 1695 he was a Commissioner
for managing the duty on glass. The factory passed down
through four generations until it was destroyed by fire in 1794.
This is the John Bowles mentioned as a friend of Samuel Pepys in his
diaries.)
For the next generations in this line, see
John Bowles of
Eltham's Family Tree
See also
The Bowles of Eltham
and for other famous Bowles in this line see
Caroline Bowles Southey,
Charles
Bradshaw Bowles,the Vicar of Woking,Surrey and
Phineas Bowles of
Kilmainham, Dublin.
4.
William Bowles bp. Apr. 2?, 1644
Chatham St. Mary, Kent (cannot read last
digit of day in registry entry)
(must have died as an infant)
5. William
Bowles
bp. Nov. 7, 1645 Chatham St. Mary, Kent
(a William Bowles bur. Nov. 25, 1665
Chatham St. Mary, Kent; a
plague year; possibly this William)
6.
Phineas Bowles bp. May 3, 1647
Chatham St. Mary, Kent
(of
Weybridge; succeeded Samuel Pepys as Secretary to the Admiralty in
1689)
See Phineas
Bowles, Secretary to the Admiralty
m. Katherine
6.1
Phineas
Bowles (Brigadier General) b. ~ 1679
See Brigadier General
Phineas Bowles
m. Elizabeth
Robinson (widow) 1718
6.1.1
Elizabeth Bowles (living and unmarried in 1750)
Phineas d.
Nov. 15, 1722
6.2
Benjamin Bowles bp. June 29, 1683 St Alfege, London
m. Hannah Barker
Mar. 20, 1706 St Mary, Islington, Middlesex
(“Benjamen
Bowles at ye Wheat Sheaff in Fleet Street. He is a Clerk.”
Benjamin was Clerk to the Secretary of the Admiralty (his father
Phineas)
ref.)
6.2.1 Charles Bowles bp. Apr. 27, 1705 St Bride’s, Fleet Street
Benjamin Bowles bur. Feb. 1707/08 St Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex
6.3
Margaret Bowles
bp.(1) Oct. 15, 1669 Christ Church, Newgate Street, London
and bp.(2)
Oct. 25, 1669 All Hallows Staining, London
d. unm. St. Anne, Westminster
6.4
Katherine Bowles d. unm. March 1743
6.5
another daughter m. ? (possibly Crymes)
Phineas d.
Dec. 14, 1714 Weybridge
Katherine d.
June 1716
7.
Thomas Bowles b. ?, bur. Aug. 20, 1649 St. Margaret of Antioch,
Rochester, Kent
8.
Margaret Bowles b. 1650 Rochester
m. Lieut.
Col. John Seymour (b. 1649 John, Elizabeth Lyte) Nov. 4, 1672 London
(later
Governor of Maryland, USA)
8.1
John Seymour
8.2
Berkeley Seymour
8.3
Jane Seymour
Margaret d.
bef. 1698
John Seymour
m.(2) Hester
Governor
Seymour d. July 30, 1709 Maryland colony
9. Thomas
Bowles
b. ?, bur. Sept. 22, 1657
Chatham St. Mary, Kent
Charles d.
and bur. June 25, 1659
Chatham St. Mary, Kent
Agnes bur.
Sept. 24, 1661
Chatham St. Mary, Kent
Also see
Sorting Out the
Various Phineas Bowles |