Elizabeth Boys

Abt 1539 - 1613  (~ 74 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Boys  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1539  [2]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate death	Between 8 Jul 1612 and 10 Feb 1613	St. Saviour's, Canterbury, Kent, England   [3]
  Death	7 Feb 1613	Canterbury, Kent, England   [2]
  Person ID	I36573	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	William Boys,   b. Abt 1500, of Fredville, Kent, England d. Bef 22 Dec 1549 (Age ~ 49 years)
  Mother	Mary Ringley
  Family ID	F21505	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Richard Ower,   b. Abt 1525   d. 8 Mar 1607, Canterbury, Kent, England (Age ~ 82 years)
  Marriage	14 Dec 1559	St. Andrew, Tilmanstone, Kent, England   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Christian Ower   d. Aft 1627
  Family ID	F21502	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2021

  
  

• Notes

  A paper by Geoff Swinfield, dated 2002 and 2003, "English Research on the Ancestry of Theophilus Wilson and allied Boys and Ower Families," is in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collection of the NEHGS. We haven't seen this paper, and it's not online, but various entries on Wikitree state that "Swinfield reported that he found several large pedigrees of Boys families in the library of The Society of Genealogists in London. He also found them in the Dean and Chapter Library of Canterbury Cathedral. One was George J. Blake’s 'Founder's Kin of Sir John Boys of Canterbury Knight'. The other was compiled by William Boys of Sandwich in 1802, based on the research of Nicholas Brett and his father Dr. Thomas Brett in the late 1700s." In the absence of this paper and these pedigrees, we've consulted other sources for the ancestry of Elizabeth Boys, and we show here what seems plausible and consistent across sources, going as far up as William Boys of Fredville, Kent and his wife Jane Coles (d. 1425), daughter of Richard Coles of Lincolnshire. This Boys line is said, without what seems to us a lot of plausibility, to descend from various people called Bosco in the 11th and 12th centuries.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3924] Kent Marriages and Banns, on findmypast.co.uk. [S6005] Kent Archaeological Society, list of monumental inscruptions at St. John's Hospital, Canterbury. [S6004] Doris Schreiber Willcox, "Massachusetts Descendants of the Rev. Thomas Wilson, Author of the Pilgrims' Christian Dictionarie: Theophilus Wilson, Martha (Wilson) Bachelor, Mary (Wilson) Treadwell, and Their Nephew Samuel Taylor." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 163:5, 2009.