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Sarah (Edge) Bowater (abt. 1657 - 1692)

Sarah Bowater formerly Edge
Born about in Englandmap
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Wife of — married 4 Oct 1686 in Chester, Pennsylvaniamap
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Died at about age 34 in Chester, Delaware, Pennsylvaniamap
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Biography

Sarah was a Friend (Quaker)

Sarah was born in 1657.[1] The daughter of George Edge & Joan Barrow ,[2] Quakers of Cheshire, England. It is believed Sarah came to Pennsylvania in 1683 but this is uncertain.[3]

Sarah married Thomas Bowater on 4 Oct 1686 in Edgemont, Chester Co PA.[4][5][6] They had at least two children, a daughter and a son, before she died 26 Apr 1692[7][8]aged 35 yrs.

It appears from the burial record Sarah was first buried at the Chester Quaker Friends Burying Ground. Originally located at Edgemont Ave between 6th & 7th Streets in Chester, Delaware Co PA, a 1938 picture of this cemetery can be seen online at oldchesterpa.com. Burials there were reinterred at Chester Friends and Chester Rural, both in Delaware Co PA. Could only find a partial listing with 133 names of the total 456 burials that were moved.

Sources

  1. ↑ Society of Friends' Registers, Notes and Certificates of Births, Marriages and Burials. Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, RG 6. The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England. Piece 1035: Quarterly Meeting of Cheshire and Staffordshire: Cheshire (1631-1799), Frame 10.
  2. ↑ GARRETT, Samuel Bond, Bond Genealogy : A history of the descendants of Joseph Bond : born 1704, in Wiltshire, England; Indiana, 1913. Page 16.
  3. ↑ SHEPPARD, WALTER LEE, JR., compiler and editor. Passengers and Ships prior to 1684. (Publications of the Welcome Society of Pennsylvania, 1.) Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1970. 245p. Reprinted by Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1985.
  4. ↑ U.S. Quaker Records, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Chester MM, Men's Minutes, First Marr. Intention 4 Aug 1686, Sec. Marr. Intention 4 Oct 1686 Ancestry Record 2189 #99772148
  5. ↑ Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Men's Minutes, 1681-1721; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: MR-Ph 92
  6. ↑ Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
  7. ↑ Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Register Book, 1681; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: MR-Ph 92
  8. ↑ Quaker Meeting Records 1681-1994 Chester MM, PA, Pg 3, Old Style date: "Sarah the wife of Thomas Bowater Departed this Life the 26'th of the 2'd month 1692."




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Butler-21232 Russell Butler
This profile has a missing project box error.
posted by Russell Butler
Gardiner-1534 Rick Gardiner
Edge-321 and Edge-242 appear to represent the same person because: Clear duplicate.
posted by Rick Gardiner
Glenn York
Edge-321 and Edge-242 do not represent the same person because: These two women were born many years apart and reading the comments it is obvious that there has been confusion between these two people, but they are two different people.
posted by Glenn York
Gardiner-1534 Rick Gardiner
If that is the case why is it that the only verifiable source listed on Sarah (Edge) Beal's profile is the FindAGrave memorial for Sarah (Edge) Bowater? So there are two different Sarah Edges who died on the same day in the same state but are married to two different men. The odds of that are about the same as winning the lottery. Someone has erroneously married her off to Thomas Beal. They are the same people but I have placed them as an unmerged match until someone else also takes the time to figure that out.
posted by Rick Gardiner
Stanton-3574 T Stanton
Currently looking to see if there is actual documentation for the birth date of what is said to be twins, Martha and Rebecca. Their profiles lack sources.

Update: the Cheshire Quarterly Meeting record contains the birth record of sibling twins Rebecca and Martha and is dated 6 (day) 1 (month) 1658/9 (6 Mar 1659). Source has been cited on their profiles.

posted by T Stanton
Stanton-3574 T Stanton
Reply to Seth Moore 3 Jun 2018 entry

I've attached the birth record image to this profile for you and others to study. I see the use both of 7 and 9 in this ledger column for month. The "Sep 1657" came from whomever indexed the document (or horror of horrors it was an OCR program). I'm not competent to judge this as 7 or 9 in context. I have noted in other records the issue of 8 months between two of the siblings. I have not yet looked for an actual birth document of the sibling. Is there one?

posted by T Stanton
Moore-17915 Seth Moore
In reply to T Stanton "birth as Sep 1657"

I have often found that September (7th month in latin) is often written as 7 instead of 9 in some genealogies. I don't know why, but I've seen it often in people from this era, so I'd feel comfortable with that adjustment. Except that there is a sibling born less than 8 months from the new date.

4-8-1685 or 4-10-1685 vs 6-7-1686 or 4-9-1686

either way, off by 11 months which isn't bad. I still don't feel comfortable making that change yet, but perhaps a more experienced genealogist would make the changes after reviewing?

posted by Seth Moore
Stanton-3574 T Stanton
I have added some primary sources to this record which the PMs could use to update. Original MM record of Cheshire lists birth as Sep 1657. Swarthmore College Quaker collection has original marriage intention document with the date 6 Sep 1686. Also see the Samuel Bond Garrett book cited page 16. This book has some errors but I have not found any in this information. Family manuscript (Bond family, dated 1885 which is a copy of a much earlier record kept by Jehiel Bond) in my possession corroborates the cited data.
posted by T Stanton
Moore-17915 Seth Moore
Edge-435 and Edge-242 are not ready to be merged because: I've seen too many instances where these apparent matches are not the actual matches. Where the first name is such a common name and the rest of the information is mismatched, I wouldn't feel comfortable merging these two at this time.
posted by Seth Moore
Holland-5579 Zoiya (Holland) Tate
Edge-435 and Edge-242 appear to represent the same person because: Death date is slightly off but think it is evident they are the same person
posted by Zoiya (Holland) Tate
Athey-67 Darlene (Athey) Athey-Hill
Edge-242 and Edge-477 appear to represent the same person because: same person; please merge
posted by Darlene (Athey) Athey-Hill
Glenn York
Edge-249 and Edge-242 appear to represent the same person because: These two people have the same spouse and same death date. Birth details need to be resolved.
posted by Glenn York
Molier-3 B. W. J. Molier
Can you find a correct date of marriage?

Template:Db errors

posted by B. W. J. Molier
Olsen-3053 Carolyn (Olsen) GiaMarco
there seems to be several different Sarah Edge's whom everyone claims is a daughter of George Beals, but one of them is married to William Bales/Beals, but he died before George's Edges daughter Sarah was born, so how can she be his wife? that Sarah, daughter of George Edge, did marry Thomas Bowater of which there are also several here. We need to search English records for an older Sarah Beals, maybe her grandmother or great cousin, that is the appropriate age for William Bales/Beals, and clear up all these duplicates. I put the info of her ancestors in and it all disappeared after two hours of typing, ? where did it go?
posted by Carolyn (Olsen) GiaMarco

Unmerged matches › Sarah Edge (1668-1692)
Rejected matches › Frances Corbett (1656-1720) › Frances Corbett (1656-1720) › Sarah (Edge) Beals (abt.1637-1692)

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