Margery (Dunn) Clowes (abt. 1634 - abt. 1698)

Born about 1634 in Gawsworth, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of John Clowes — married about 1656 in Cheshire, England

Descendants

Died about 2 Apr 1698 at about age 64 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania

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Biography

mtDNA = H (haplogroup) 27 (subclade)

Margery Dunn was born about 1630 in Cheshire, England.

She married John Clowes about 1655.

On 29 July1683, she arrived in Pennsylvania with her husband and children on the Ship Endeavor and settled in Makefield.

Known Children:

1. Margery 1657-1719 married Richard Hough
2. Rebecca 1664 Cheshire, England married John Lambert?
3. William 24 Jan 1667/8 England - married Sarah Stanfield
4. Sarah Clowes 27 Oct 1660 cheshire, England – 1690
5. Joseph Clowes 28 Mar 1662 Cheshire, England – married Elizabeth Pownall in 1692
6. John Jr

Death 1698 Bucks County, Pennsylvania

John Clowes Immigration

List of goods shipped. John Clows, FP of 100 acres , late of Gosworth, Cheshire, with his wife Marjory and children Marjory, Rebecca, and William Clows, were included in the Congleton Monthly Meeting certificate 2 3m 1683, cited above. John Clows had shipped goods on the Friend's Adventure in 1682 in the care of his other children for which see PGM, XXIII, 47. His land was laid out in Makefield Twp. Bucks Co., on the Delaware where he died 4 7m 1687, and his wife 2 2m 1698. for abstract of his will, see PGSP, I 219, recorded in Bucks Co. Will;; Book A-1, 44. See also sketch of Richard Hough, who married Marjory Clows, PMHB, XVIII, 32 cited above. (It continues to say more about the servants).

Sources

• #W. W. H. (William Watts Hart) Davis, History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time (Volume 3), Publisher: New York ; Chicago : The Lewis Pub. Co.
• England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837
• Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1700-1821
• U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935

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