Katherine, wife of Michael Bowditch -- her maiden surname is not known -- was presumably, based on her giving birth to a child by 1613, born in about 1590 in Thornecombe -- which was part of Devon until joined to Dorset in 1843. Katherine and Michael married by 1613; both G.A. Moriarty in NEHGR 72-73 (1918) and descendant genealogist Harold Bowditch (1936) record that she passed away in Thorncombe in 1643.
Sources
General biographical: The Bowditch family of Salem, Massachusetts, a genealogical sketch prepared for distribution on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the family Christmas party, Christmas day, 1936; by Harold Bowditch (Boston, Mass., Press of Recording and Statistical Corporation, 1936); https://archive.org/details/bowditchfamilyof00bowd/page/2
G. Andrews Moriarty, "Genealogical Research in England - Bowditch," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1918, [1]
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