Born about in Gower, Gower, Glamorgan, Wales
Ancestors 
Daughter of Griffith Bowen
and Margaret (Fleming) Bowen
Sister of
Margaret (Bowen) Weld, Francis Bowen, William Bowen, Henry Bowen, Elizabeth (Bowen) Addington, Esther Bowen, Abigail Bowen, Penuel Bowen and Doriah Bowen
Wife of
Benjamin Childe II
— married
about 1652 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Mother of
Ephraim (Childs) Childe, Benjamin Child III, Joshua Child, Mary (Childe) Chamberlain, Joseph (Child) Childe, Elizabeth Childe, Margaret Childe, John Childe, Mehetabel (Childe) Perrin, John Childe, Joseph Childe and Joseph Child
Died
at about age 72
in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Profile last modified
| Created 16 Sep 2011
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Biography
Mary (Bowen) Child immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
MARY BOWEN, daughter of Griffith, was born in Wales about 1636, and she died in Roxbury Mass Oct. 31, 1707. She was the Widow Child remembered in the division of her father's farm at Muddy River. It is supposed that she married Benjamin Child of Roxbury EAB late from Bury St Edmonds, Lincolnshire, England. Morris Reg Their son Benjamin Child born in Roxbury in 1656 died Jan 21 1723 married March 7 1682 Grace Morris born in Roxbury Feb 7 1661 bapt Feb 17 1661 admitted to the church August 21 1681 on the same day with Elizabeth Bowen daughter of Henry and afterwards wife of Dea Edw Morris brother of Grace Benjamin and Grace had 12 children and 77 grandchildren Six of the eight sons removed to Woodstock where their families became among the most numerous and prominent The second son Benjamin was grandfather to Rev Jedediah Morse of Charlestown Mass father of American Geography and father of Prof Sam l FB Morse the inventor of the electric telegraph P. 31 Griffith Bowen Book
Sources
- U.S & Marriage Records, Yates Publishing
- Bowen, Edward Augustus. Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut. Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1897.
- Family history as told by Elizabeth Roe Child Hall, Roe family records, Albany library geneology on Stickney family
- New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.)
- Benjamin CHILD 1658 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States ::CHILD, Benjamin (?1620-1678) & Mary [BOWEN] (-1707); ca 1652?, 3 ch bpt 1658; Boston/Roxbury {Paine Anc. (1936) 33; Davis (1932) 53; Woodstock 2:503, 3:472; Rathbone (1941) 64; Reg. 47:459; Sv. 1:377; Child 69; Bowen 31, 195; Parker (,9) 377; Davis (,1) 7 Marriage
- Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016)
- Mary CHILD
- 1707 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
- Mary, wid., Oct. 31, 1707. Death
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