Lizzie Borden Society Forum

We had a Hurricane go over us today, and in the early morning hours before dawn, I decided to dig into my papers on the (Fall River) Bowen family and create a "tree" to show the Bowen in Andrew Borden's family.

I used the book "Representative Men...of Southeastern Massachusetts"- the title is written on the "tree" I made- I usually just call the book "Southeasten."

Notice the Martha "Patty" Bowen.
She is where the old Bowen line comes into our Borden line.
The rest of her siblings whose marriages I have not shown (other than Abraham), would be found in a different chapter than the one I had copy of. Patty Bowen was included in a Bowen line out of John, but the focus is toward following her brother Abraham's descendents.

Dr. Seabury Bowen is out of Attleboro, Mass.
I would need further chapters on the John Bowen line to see if any of Patty's siblings created him.

I don't consider this finished, tho- I need more resource and more paper- and I'm not sure my power will stay on, so I'm posting this so far.

Please Click on the Boxed picture to make it bigger.

This is the way I do trees. Do they make sense? Is it legible?

It's definitely legible -- and your diagramming method makes the relationships easy to follow. Thanks, Kat.

I appreciate the input.
I've been doing it this way for tons of Bordens so far, so if it stinks as a format, I wanted to know now!
Thanks, Diana.

Kat,
Do you belong to Ancestry.com, that money grubbing outfit that has everything we want?
It has the Descendants of John Bowen there wich includes a great lineage of the Bordens as well as the Davis family, not to mention going into the Fish family and Morse and Hart and Wilcox and Manchester and Durfee and Hood, etc, etc, etc. Just fascinating!
I had thought our Benjamin Bowen might be a son of Nathan but apparently not. I did find my "Uncle" George Tew was a direct descendant of John Bowen, Jr. He and his wife, "Aunt" Fannie were friends of my grandmother and grandfather and I remember visiting them on their third floor apartment on Pear Street (hahaha). That went on until I was a teenager. I remember being terribly bored as my mother took care of Aunt Fannie once. I laid on the floor by the casement window and wished so hard that the boy next door would come out so we could play. I did love the two of them, though.

Gramma

Ancestry dot com? Not anymore.

But I've got plenty of Bordens and Morses.

Have you got Fish? Connecticut Fish?
We were looking for them.
I maintained that Priscilla Gray had no children with her Mr. Fish- that the children were his from a prior.
Do you know?

Thanks, Kat.

Boy, am I dumb! I looked for the Borden family under Borden; I looked for Morses under Morse, Anthonys under Anthony...and when I got to Bowen I came up with a blank.

"Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts". Who knew? Kat, that's who!