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Margery (Bowen) Kelley (abt. 1720)

Margery Kelley formerly Bowen
Born about in Bristol County, Rhode Islandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 9 Aug 1739 in Barrington, Bristol County, Rhode Islandmap
Descendants descendants
Died [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Biography

Margery was born probably about 1720,[1] probably either in Bristol County, Rhode Island or Bristol County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Josiah Bowen and Margaret Child.

Margery married John Kelley at Barrington, Rhode Island in 1739.[2] Their children, recorded at Warren, were:[3]

  • Hannah b. 24 November 1739
  • Molly b. 12 April 1746
  • William b. 13 November 1748
  • Jonathan b. 28 October 1750
  • Patience b. 23 March 1753
  • Sarah b. 4 August 1755
  • Naomi b. 29 August 1757
  • Susanna b. 3 July 1759
  • John b. 27 March 1761

"John Kelly and his wife" were named in the division of Margery's father's estate in 1749.

Sources

  1. assuming she had children from age 19 until age 41
  2. Rounds, page 84 -- this is a correction to Arnold's VR entry, which gives her husband as "John Healey". The corrected version given by Rounds says "Kelley, John, of Swansey, and Margary Bowen, of Barrington, Aug. 9, 1739".
  3. Arnold: Vol. 6, Warren Births, Page 73
  • Rounds, H. L. Peter. "Corrections and additions to Arnold's published Barrington, R.I. vital records" in Rhode Island Roots 10 (1984) pp.83-86.
  • Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016).




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posted by Kim Williams
Can you clarify? The vital records cited here can also be found indexed on Family Search. Margery also has a profile on the FamilySearch global tree:

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/vitals/MKT3-BZR

I just never link tertiary sources like those when the secondary or primary sources they cite are freely available instead.

posted by Barry Smith
I mean when I do a search on Familysearch.org for "records" using the data from her profile nothing at all comes up. [Using Rootsearch]. Just a few unrelated "Kelly" records. I don't rely on trees as they are usually not, or poorly, sourced. I tried the link for the Arnold source and it goes to a paid site I don't have access to. I was able to find the Arnold sources for RI in archive.org but page 73 of volume 6 brings me to Bristol County Marriages in the "S" surnames, not to births.

The only reason I'm looking at data for these profiles is I am trying to resolve two different Patricia Bowens that may or may not be duplicates. They have similar data but different parents. Therefore trying to investigate this family and validate the parents of the children.

My point is only that if the data is accurate I would think a state record (birth, death or marriage) could be found. Thanks for the reply.

posted by Kim Williams
Trees sometimes do not have sources, but the profile I linked includes 28 sources, including several for the marriage of John and Margery in 1739. Two of them were indexed as "Killey". Perhaps that is the problem? And it was indexed as happening in Swansea, rather than Barrington. Both of those towns were part of Massachusetts at the time, and Swansea still is, so perhaps the Rootsearch is getting confused about the state?

Another record can be found by searching FamilySearch for "Healey", since someone went and indexed Arnold's works and included them in the Rhode Island Marriages database, and Arnold had mistranscribed the groom's name.

Here are free copies of the pages from Arnold:

https://archive.org/details/cu31924098819984/page/72/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/cu31924098819984/page/10/mode/2up

Here is another version in a transcription of the Barrington town record:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8984-9XJ5?i=58&cat=102253

The children can be viewed in images of the original town books of Warren, starting here:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DTGS-TRK?i=15&cc=2146229&cat=701896

with Hannah as the first entry on the left. The other children, chronologically, are on pages 31, 55, 24, 40, 49, 35, 50, and 24, in that order.

Have you consulted William Saxbe's extensive genealogy of the Bowen family? If there were multiple Patricia Bowens, he probably has the documentation to sort them out. He is an FASG and this work is very well researched. But he only did the first 5 generations from Richard Bowen, so it might not go down far enough. And the 4th and 5th generations are not freely accessible, but it may be possible to get a copy of a few pages.

posted by Barry Smith

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