Sunday, March 9, 2014

Our Bowens and the Borens

I just stumbled on a record I had not seen before while working on my tree. It is a marriage record for Jenny Boren, daughter of Mary McClure Boren. It is Aug 22, 1838 to Moses Bradley. The record is under the name Irviney Boren, but if you look closely at the actual handwritten record I think it is Jinney, a transcribing error. That year would make sense because her and Moses had their first child in 1838. Her family's name is recorded in several documents as Boren. Apparently, the family name later was morphed into Bowen, which survives to this day. Update - Over the past year, further work leads me to believe that the family name is Bowen and that other spellings are due to errors made at various times on census records, legal documents, etc.