: As of March 29, 2004 our most recent notices and additions :
Advertisement from Bowen Airlines.
A Bowen busline matchbook cover
from the Bowen family archives
Cover from a 1959 product catalog
from the Bowen Company of Texas
The mineral Bowenite
Bowen named soldiers of North Carolina in the Civil War
Estate of of Green Bowen (1837-1869) / Adminisrator's Bond
Sale Bill for the estate of Green Bowen 1869
Bowenshire is an area that may be of interest to the members of Bowen clans worldwide.
Inside Bowenshire is placed information pertaining to Bowen family history, related historical persons,places and events as well as contributed information.[ Bowenshire Table of Contents ]
Bowenville is is an area that may be of interest to the members of my specific Bowen clan. Bowenville contains information related to the research of my family lineage and some collateral lines.
Bowenville contains both original research materials as well as materials donated and reseached by those that are associated with my line.[ Bowenville Table of Contents ]
These two features are works that are on-going and incomplete. I have placed them on line in the hope that those that have information will contibute to the work.
The first is :
Bowen's to Americathe second is
The Exploits of Waul's Texas Legion.
Aquilla Adams : Texas Frontier Regiment Discharge Papers July 1,1862 - February 14,1863The Bowen's of Camrose, Pembrokeshire County Wales
Contributed by Jon HudsonInfo and photo of Major John A. Vernon of Company A of Hobbys 8th Texas Infantry Regiment C.S.A. ( Green Bowen served in Company "C" of this regiment.)
1862 Muster Roll of Captain J.J.Dix Texas Frontier Regiment of Mounted Volunteers
About Texas Frontier regimentsBowens on the 1800 Federal census
A compiled narrative of American Bowen references ca 1700-1900Archaeologists digging into the past of enslaved blacks
at the old William Bowen plantation ( The Bowen - Campbell house) have discovered what is believed to be the kitchen of a slave cabin.A Short history of Wales by Owen M. Edwards
Thomas McClure Rice Bio. by Earline Rumsey
The Duke family files : The descendants of David Dukes
1790 Bowens on the first census
John Sevier Tennessee's first governor 1810 letter concerning "Welsh Indians"
Accounts of The Battle of Kings Mountain and the over mountain men October 7,1780
e-mail notepad # 3
Notes and e-mails sent to the Bowen family web from persons looking for their hard to find Bowen connections.Monument Hill's list of casualties of The Dawson and Mier Expeditions : Salado creek
Of Bowen & Rice clans in Texas :
The name and family of Bowen :
From the media research center Washington D.C.Family group sheet for Solomon D. Blue & Nancy C. Graham,
parents of Albina S. Blue who married Green Bowen 12-27-1860 in Illinois.
Updated information concerning the family group of David Bowen & Maggie Rice
Includes a 1943 WWII letter From J.R. Bowen to Mrs. Dedie Bowen ,
Maggie Bowen's obituary & David & Maggies marriage certificate.Bowen family Coats of Arms
An account from Allen James Walker's( Union Soldier) civil war pension file.
Mentions Wauls Texas Legions/Willis's battallonWaul's Texas legion :A record of events.
Bowens' killed in the Vietnam war.
Illinois federal land grants issued to Bowen's
Republic of Texas land grants issued to Bowens' ca.(1836-1851)
New images of,and information about the USS Bowen FF-1079
The Description of Wales by Geraldus Cambrensis written in 1194
Bowens of Texas in the Confederacy
From Ron Bowen, a Cherokee Native American Bowen.
Includes some facts & links concerning the Dawes roll listings and the Dawes act.
Bowen / Bowin soldiers in The Blackhawk wars of 1831-1832
Green, Joshua & William Bowin are listed from White County, Illinois.The Muster Roll of Detached Militia of Bertie County North Carolina 1814
I Have re-opened the Joshua Bowen & Margaret Cobb files to try to answer the questions and clarify our understanding of this important family group.
Help us clear up the questions if you can
Family group sheet for Helen Hester Gann and Lincoln Hays.
Joshua Bowen & Margaret Cobb > Green George Bowen & Elizabeth Fobar > Elizabeth Bowen & Alfred (Alford) Gann > Helen Hester Gann & Lincoln Hays.
Info sent by Patsy Becker beckep@earthlink.net
August 29,1872 Richmond Daily Whig of Richmond, Virginia.
A small bio of general Rees T. Bowen of Tazewell County, Virginia with a transcription of 1872 newspaper article.We have been contacted by the team at the Bowen Depository, who is continuing the work done by Ken Bowen. We are working on an information sharing venture.
Visit their site and see the work they have done : http://bowendepository.netI have added two new Bowen family web Search tools which searches the pages of the Bowen family web site. Also included is a web search tool from Google.
I have added a Directory of the main pages in the Bowen family web.
Made a web site for Grandma Ruth's garden
Placed online my edited version of
A Welsh history synopsis by David Fortin
The Bowen family web was created and is maintained by
Benjamin Bowen.

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