Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Burial: 16 July 1572.
Place of Burial: Moreton Valence, Gloucestershire.
The date of burial recorded in the register conflicts with the date recorded in the will. Probably the error is in the register.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Eleanor.
Eleanor’s burial is recorded in the parish register.
Spouse: Margery.
John named his wife Margery in his will.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
John Bower married Joan.
Thomas Bower
Annes Bower
Alicia Bower
Eleanor Bower
Catherine Bower
William Bower (baptized 17 March 1570/1 in Moreton Valence)
Elizabeth Bower (baptized 23 November 1572 in Moreton Valence)
Evidence
from the Moreton Valence parish register:
[1569]
The same yere the xxvij day of June was Buried Elyner Bower the wyffe of John Bower.
[1570]
The same yere xvij Daye of Marche was Christened Will’m Bower the sone of John Bower./
[1572]
The same yere the xxiijt Daye of november was Christened Elizabeth Bower The daughter of John Bower./
The same yere the xvj day of Julye was buried John Bower his sone John beinge executor payed to the p[ar]sons for a mortuarie or corps ruts[?] xs
John’s will:
In the name of god Amen the xxviij daye of Marche Anno d’ni 1572 I John Bower of the p[ar]ishe of Moreton in the Diocis of Gluc/ beinge Sicke in Bodeye but whole in mynd and [...] memori thankes be to god do make this my testament and Laste well in mann[er] and forme foloinge viz/ Ferste I Bequethe my soule in to the hands of Almightei god by whome I hope to be saued throught Jesus Christ my saueoure and my Bodey to be bured at the discresion of my frendes It’m I geue and bequethe to Thomas Bower my sonne ij yong hayfers of the age of iij yeres and x shepe vj pounds of good and lawfull of England to be payed to him when he shall accompleshe the Age of xvj yares and 1 bollocke of the age of iij yeres to be delyuered to him at the age aforesayd It’m I geue and bequethe to Annes Bower my daughter one cowe and one hayfer to be deliuered emedeatlie after my deces and xxs. & xxd in money wige must be payed to here by the hands of Lawnres[?] her sonne and one flocke beed & one couerled and iij shepe one brease panne one brease potts It’m I geue & bequethe to Alicia Bower my doughter one cowe & one heyfer and iij shepe xxs & xxd in monne to be payed by the hands of the foresayd Lawrnce her sonne one brase potts & xiijs iiijd in monnie to helpe to make her a beed at the tyme of here maraegge/ It’m I geue and bequthe to Elenoire Bower my Daughter ij keyne and v shepe and xxxiijs iiij d in monnie to be deliuered to here when she shall accomplehse the age of xiiijth yeres It’m I geue and bequeth to Katrene Bower my daugter ij leyne and v shepe and xxxiij s iiij d in monie/ to be delivered to here when she shall accompleshe the age of xiiij yeres It’m I geue & bequethe to margerey my wyffe iiij keyne. x. shepe and the goods and household stufe wiche I had with here at ower marregge. and . xx bords sawed of beche with the one halfe of my crope of corne wiche is noew showen[?] upon my grounds./. It’m I geue & bequeth to Willim Bower my sonne one hayfer iiij shepe to be delivered to margerey my wyfe at here[?] departure After my discis ./s It’m I geue & bequeth to Elizabethe my daughter iiij shepe and one hayfer to be diliuered to margeri my wyife at here daparture After my decis ./. All the Riste of my goods and cattels moveable and unmovable unbequethed my detts and Legacies payed & discharged with my buriall /. I geue and bequeth to John Bower my Eldiste sonne whonne I doe ordayne constetude and make my whule Executer to see this my testament & laste well faythfully & trulie fulfilled / these[?] I do make my over seeres of this my last well John Bower of Durslay Richard Frome the elder John Hernagge[?] my neybures and to hand evere one of them xxd for thuyere paynes these baringe wittnes
John Day clakr
Writer hereof
William Keyre
[...]
It my mynde & will is that yf it happen that aney of my saide children do deye before they come to the agis before menconed that then my well is that the grads[?] [...] to them bequethed shall Ramayne amongest the Rest of my children then leveinge and the longest levere of them [...] to be devided by my over seers ./.
It’m I geve [...] to [...] Willm Bower my sonne one cowe v shepe to be delivered to him when he shall happen to acomplishe the age of vj yeres
It’m I geve and bequethe to Elizabeth my daughter one cowe [...] shepe to be delivered when she happen to acomplishe the age of vj yeres.
[Proved 26 September 1573]
References
Parish registers of Moreton Valence, Gloucestershire. Digital images on Ancestry.com.
Will of John Bower. Proved 1573 in the Consistory Court of Gloucester. Digital images on Ancestry.com.