Barbara (Aubrey) Bevan (abt. 1637 - 1711)

Born about 1637 in Pencoed, Glamorgan, Wales

Ancestors

Wife of John Bevan — married 1665 in Llantrisant, Wales [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 26 Jan 1711 at about age 74 in Llantrisant, Glamorgan, Wales

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Biography

Barbara was a Friend (Quaker)

Barbara Aubrey was born about 1637, daughter of William Aubrey of Pen Coed, Glamorgan, Wales and his wife, Elizabeth Thomas.^[1][2]

Barbara married John Bevan, and they immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1683.^[1][2] They owned a tract of land in Philadelphia county and another in Chester county. ^[1][2] They had one son, Evan, and four daughters, Jane (wife of John Wood), Anne (wife of Owen Roberts), Elizabeth (wife of Joseph Richardson), and Barbara.^[1][2]

John was a wealthy Quaker and traveling minister. He served in the Provincial Assembly and as Justice of the Peace.^[1][2]

Barbara and her husband returned to Wales in 1704 with their youngest daughter Barbara, and never returned to America.^[1][2][3]

Barbara Bevan died 26 January 1710/1 in Wales,^[1][2] aged about 73 years and 4 months.^[3]

Research Notes

Children

Two profiles for unsourced children who died young are likely theirs also:

• Ann (born/died 1666)
• Katherine (1675-1683)

In John's writings he relays his wife's words at the end of her life, in 1710/1, that they had been married "upwards of forty-five years", notes that they saw four children married and with children in Pennsylvania, and talks about the passing of Barbara, their youngest daughter (during or shortly after their 1704 return voyage).^[4]

While only five children are listed by Richardson,^[1][2] looking at the Family Group Sheet for John: first child, Jane, shows birth year of 1668, eldest son Evan, born 1672, and next child born 1676, it's likely they had several other children who did not survive to maturity as well. ~ Liz Shifflett, 19 June 2018

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol I, p 199 AUBREY #21.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol I, p 75 AUBREY #18, p 192 BREVAN #21i.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} US Quaker Meeting Records, Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, 1646-1757, Ancestry.com
4. ↑ See Thomas Allen Glenn's Merion in the Welsh tract... (starting p 170).

• Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013).
• Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011).
• Thomas Allen Glenn, Merion in the Welsh tract with sketches of the townships of Haverford and Radnor, historical and genealogical collection concerning the Welsh barony in the province of Pennsylvania... (1896)
• "Index to Certificates from Wales and other places to Haverford Mo. Meeting Vol 1st," pg 27, items 2, John Bevan and Barbara his wife, 1683, received from " ... the monthly Meeting of Cardiff and Treverig Glamorganshire in South Wales ... "; Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Index, 1683-1730; Collection: Quaker Meeting Records; Call Number: MR Ph:537; Ancestry, database with images, "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935" (https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2189 : viewed 20 June 2018) > Pennsylvania > Montgomery > Radnor Monthly Meeting > Index, 1683-1730 > John Bevan [search criteria John Bevan 1693 +/- 10yrs].
• "Index to Certificates from Wales and other places to Haverford Mo. Meeting Vol 1st," pg 27, items 3, John Bevan and Barbara his wife of Pennsylvania, 1697/8, received "after a visit to his friends in his native country from our Meeting at Traverg in Glamorganshire ... "; Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Index, 1683-1730; Collection: Quaker Meeting Records; Call Number: MR Ph:537; Ancestry, database with images, "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935" (https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2189 : viewed 20 June 2018) > Pennsylvania > Montgomery > Radnor Monthly Meeting > Index, 1683-1730 > John Bevan [search criteria John Bevan 1693 +/- 10yrs].

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Magna Carta Project

Barbara Aubrey is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry as a Gateway Ancestor (vol. I, pages xxiii-xxix) in a Richardson-documented trail, through her father, to Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert de Vere (vol. I, pages 73-75 AUBREY). However, this trail goes through Beaufort-6 who in 2019 was disproved as being the daughter of Alice (FitzAlan) de Arundel, thereby breaking this trail. See 2019 soc.genealogy.medieval post for more information.

The Magna Carta Project has identified alternate trails from Barbara Aubrey, through her father, to surety baron William de Mowbray. That trails is set forth in the Magna Carta Trails section below and needs further development against the project's checklist.

Richardson has documented a Royal trail for her mother in Royal Ancestry, V:149-150 THOMAS. And an ancestor on that trail, Eleanor Holand, is shown in WikiTree to be a descendant of Saher de Quincy. WikiTree's Relationship Finder also shows Barbara descended from Maud Chaworth, who is a descendant of the Bigods. ~ Noland-165 21:54, 5 August 2019 (UTC) The trails through Barbara's mother have not yet been developed in WikiTree.

• Needs Development: This profile needs development against the project's checklist to bring it up to current project standards. ~ Thiessen-117 17:35, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".

Magna Carta Trails

Unbadged Richardson documented trail to de Vere (MCA I:73-75 AUBREY) is BROKEN at Joan Beaufort:

Gateway Ancestor Barbara Aubrey (trail pending/needs development)

1. Barbara is the daughter of William Aubrey (trail pending/needs development)

2. William is the son of Jane Mathew (trail pending/needs development)

3. Jane is the daughter of Humphrey Mathew (trail pending/needs development)

4. Humphrey is the son of Miles Mathew (trail pending/needs development)

5. Miles is the son of Alice Ragland (trail pending/needs development)

6. Alice is the daughter of Anne Dennis (trail pending/needs development - continues below)

7. Anne is the daughter of William Dennis (no trail)

8. William is the son of Walter Dennis (no trail)

9. Walter is the son of Katherine Stradling (no trail)

10. Katherine is the daughter of Joan Beaufort (no trail)

11. Joan is the daughter of Alice (FitzAlan) de Arundel (DISPROVED 2019)

An alternate unbadged trail to Mowbray as follows:

7. Anne is the daughter of Anne Berkeley (trail pending/needs development)

8. Anne is the daughter of Maurice Berkeley (trail pending/5-star needs development)

9. Maurice is the son of Isabel Mowbray (trail pending/5-star needs re-review)

10. Isabel is the daughter of Thomas de Mowbray (badged/100% 5-star)

11. Thomas is the son of John de Mowbray (badged/100% 5-star)

12. John is the son of John de Mowbray (badged/100% 5-star)

13. John is the son of John de Mowbray (badged/100% 5-star)

14. John is the son of Roger de Mowbray (badged/100% 5-star)

15. Roger is the son of Roger de Mowbray (badged/100% 5-star)

16. Roger is the son of Magna Carta Surety William de Mowbray