Born about in Province of Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Daughter of Melatiah Gifford
and Hannah (Claghorn) Gifford
Sister of
Elizabeth Gifford [half]
Wife of
Silas Bowerman
— married
25 Dec 1759 in Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Mother of
Anna Bowerman, Jane (Bowerman) Braley, Lydia (Bowerman) Powell, Macy Bowerman, Mary (Bowerman) Cornell, Phebe Bowerman, Sarah Bowerman, Hannah (Bowerman) Wing, Melatiah Bowerman and Silas Bowerman
Died before
before about age 62
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Jan 2011
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This person was created through the import of MASTER2011WIKITREE.GED on 27 January 2011. The following data was included in the gedcom. You may wish to edit it for readability.
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Name
- Name: Lydia /Gifford/
- Name: Lydia /Bowerman/
Found multiple versions of NAME. Using Lydia /Gifford/ .
Birth
- Birth:
- Date: ABT 1738/39
- Source: #S421
- Page: 129:233
- Source: #S424
- Page: http://hawkshome.net/
Removed ABT from Birth Date and marked as uncertain.
Could not parse date out of Birth Date (ABT 1738/39).
Death
- Death:
- Date: BEF 1797
- Note: as she is not mentioned in her husband's will. Her husband, Silas, was a brother to her stepmother, Melatiah Gifford's 2nd wife, Sarah (Bowerman) Gifford, d/o Thomas(3) & Jane (Clifton) Bowerman. Lydia's father's will refers to both daughters only by their given names, yet there is proof that the second daughter, Elizabeth, was also married at the date of the will [DCW 13:389-91, LDS Family History Library #913660].
- Source: #S441
- Page: #913660
- Source: #S314
- Page: DCWB 13:389-91
Data Changed
- Data Changed:
- Date: 23 AUG 2009
Prior to import, this record was last changed 23 AUG 2009 .
Marriage
- Husband: Silas Bowerman
- Wife: Lydia Gifford
- Child: Lydia Bowerman
- Child: Sarah Bowerman
- Child: Phebe Bowerman
- Child: Jane Bowerman
- Child: Melatiah Bowerman
- Child: Macy Bowerman
- Child: Anna Bowerman
- Child: Mary (Mercy) Bowerman
- Child: Hannah Bowerman
- Child: Silas Bowerman
- Marriage:
- Date: 25 DEC 1759
- Place: Barnstable, Mass. Bay Colony, MA
- Note: according to GNBF 1:83; 25 Jul 1759, according to Doherty.
- Lydia's husband, Silas, was a brother to her stepmother, Sarah (Bowerman) Gifford, d/o Thomas (3) and Jane Clifton) Bowerman and Melatiah Gifford's second wife. Lydia's father's will refers to both daughters only by their given names. (Interesting note here: Hannah's stepmother, Sarah (Bowerman) Gifford, was an older sister to Silas, her husband.)
- Source: #S439
- Page: 137; "Silas (Bormaman, Bormand, int.), and Lydia Gifford, 25 Dec 1759"
- Source: #S445
- Source: #S455
- Page: 1:83
Sources
- Source S314
- Title: Will
- Abbreviation: Will
- Source S421
- Title: New England Historical and Genealogical Society Register
- Abbreviation: NEHGS Register
- Source S424
- Title: Web page
- Abbreviation: Web page
- Publication: various
- Source S439
- Title: Falmouth Vital Records
- Abbreviation: Falmouth VR
- Source S441
- Title: Family History Library Microfilm
- Abbreviation: FHLMF
- Source S445
- Title: Ron Lahti skyhawk@hawkshome.net
- Abbreviation: Ron Lahti
- Publication: April 2002
- Source S455
- Title: Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families
- Abbreviation: GNBF
- Author: Amos Otis, rev. by C.F. Swift
- Publication: Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, MD, 1888 rev 1979
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lydia by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lydia:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lydia by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lydia:
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~0.39%
Doris (Muller) Wheeler
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23andMe, GEDmatch M277130 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A206179 [compare], Ancestry member dorisw
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