Another fun connection.

 

Patsy Cline the singer

 Myrtle Hensley Bowen was my grandmother. Her Hensley family has some interesting history. Just for fun, the singer Patsy Cline was born Patsy Patterson Hensley. She married a Cline.

John Dorsey Boren

 John Dorsey Boren (1750-1838) left Maryland. He may have first gone to Alabama. A John Borin is listed on a 1785 map of land plats in what is now Huntsville, Al. His son James Boren is believed to have been born in Alabama in 1773. The family apparently relocated to Huntland, Franklin County, Tn., which is just across the state line from Huntsville.

Nicholas Boren

 There is a Nicholas Boren that shows up in some Boren trees. He is often said to be from Irealand. I doubt that is correct. Many of the names of his decedents reflect the family that was in Washington County, Md.

Tracking Generations

The numbers after some names are a system I use to track generations.

Borens also settled in Washington County, VA

 I am continuing to research the Bowen/Boren/Boring/Boreing line. I have found information indicating the following.

The Boering clan apparently arrived from England, at Norfolk, Va. From there, a portion moved north to the Baltimore, Washington County, Md. area and claimed land being granted to new settlers. This was in the 1600's. 

Another portion of the immigrants moved south, first to Currituck County, NC, later to Orange and Caswell and Rowan counties, all further west in NC. Some of that group eventually went to SC and from there to Tennessee.

Borens also settled in Washington County, VA, a county in the southwest tip of Va. Those then moved into NE TN, Kentucky, and central TN around the Nashville area.

Here is a link to an article describing much history of this group.

Boren Family of SW VA

Bowring to Bowen

 John Bowring was born in 1590 in Somersal Herbert, Derbyshire, England. He had one son with Elizabeth Bowring Fraser in 1615. He died on November 20, 1635, in Chellaston, Derbyshire, England, at the age of 45.