Joan Brabant

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: William Brabant.

Mother: Alice Boys.

These parents are given in the 1623 Visitation of Surrey (Bannerman p. 31, citing Harl. 1561, fos. 29b and 30). The arms of Brabant and Boys are impaled, quarterly, by the arms of Bowyer in a shield in stained glass dated 1599. They also appear with Bowyer in a second shield dated 1596 (Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 3:154). The shields come from a house in Norton Folgate which had been granted to Robert Draper (the father-in-law of Joan’s son, John Bowyer) after the dissolution of the monasteries. Ellis gives a sketch of the arms opposite page 193.

Spouse: John Bowyer.

This relationship is given by the 1623 Visitation of Surrey (Bannerman p. 31, citing Harl. 1561, fos. 29b and 30), and Ellis (p. 329).

Children:

John Bowyer (died 10 October 1570) married (1) Ann Jenes 29 April 1540 at Camberwell, Surrey, England; married (2) Elizabeth Draper 17 June 1550 at Camberwell.

William Bowyer. Died without issue (Blanch p. 32).

John Bowyer. Died without issue (Blanch p. 32).

Agnes Bowyer married John Browne (Blanch p. 32).

References

Bannerman, William Bruce (ed.) The Visitations of the County of Surrey made and taken in the years 1530 by Thomas Benolt, 1572 by Robert Cooke and 1623 by Samuel Thompson and Augustin Vincent (London: [Harleian Society], 1899).

Blanch, William Harnett. Ye Parish of Camerwell. (London: E.W.Allen, 1877).

Ellis, Henry. The history and antiquities of the parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch, and liberty of Norton Folgate, in the suburbs of London. (London: J. Nichols, 1798).

“Extracts from the Parish Registers of Camberwell, Surrey” in Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Volume 3 pages 142 - 168.