John Bowyer

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Date of Burial: unknown.

Place of Burial: Shepton-Beauchamp, Somerset, England.

The place is given by Manning (3:409).

Relationships

Father: Thomas Bowyer.

Mother: Joan Lambert (died 1539).

These parents are given by the 1623 Visitation of Surrey (Bannerman p. 31, citing Harl. 1561, fos. 29b and 30).

Spouse: Joan Brabant.

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).

Evidence

The Somerset VCH, in its account of the manor of Shepton:

By 1516 it was described as a decayed tenement called Cokers, leased to John Bowyar, and had passed to Henry Daubeney (cr. earl of Bridgwater, 1538), who held it in 1540.

References

Baggs, A P, and R J E Bush, 'Parishes: Shepton Beauchamp', in A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 4, ed. R W Dunning (London, 1978), pp. 210-222. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol4/pp210-222 [accessed 7 November 2022].

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).

Manning, Owen, and William Bray. The history and antiquities of the county of Surrey: compiled from the best and most authentic historians, valuable records, and manuscripts in the public offices and libraries, and in private hands; with a facsimile copy of Domesday, engraved on thirteen plates. (London: J. Nichols, 1804-1814).