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Families covered: Boles of Kilbree, Bowles of Mountprospect, Bowles of North Aston

                               
BLG1886 starts its article on the following family with "This family, the name of which has been variously spelt, is, according to an old tradition, descended from a branch of the same family as that of Colonel Richard Boles who fell in 1643 whilst gallantly defending himself in Alton Church, Hants". BLG1866 & BLG1912 start with 2 brothers whom we show as sons of ...
?? Boles
1. Thomas Boles of Cork (b 1608, s 26.06.1683, Captain)
  m. Anne
  A. John Boles of Kilbree then Inch (d before 08.05.1702)
  i. Elizabeth Boles
  m. (1694) Samuel Hodder of Fountainstown
  ii. Anne Boles
  m. (1700) Randal Warner of Liscremin
  iii. Mary Boles of Kilbree then Inch (d unm)
  B. Thomas Boles of Ballinacurra (b 13.04.1646, a 11.1698)
  m. (1682) Elizabeth Downing (dau of John Downing of Broomfield)
  i. Thomas Boles 'of Youghal'
  a. Thomas Boles of Kilbree & Carrig
  (1) Anne Boles
  m. Henry Bowles of Glenaboy & Youghal @@ below
  (2) Mary Boles
  m. William Peard of Peardmount
  ii. John Boles of Woodstock then Carringnashinny (d 1739) had issue
  m. Margery Colborne (dau of John Colborne of Ballintubber)
  iii. Robert Boles of Springfield
  m1. (1716) Elizabeth Croker (dau of John Croker of Ballyanker)
  a. Jonathan Boles (dspm)
  m2. (1731) Katherine Benjer (dau of Richard Benjer of Springfield)
  b. Spotswood Boles (dsp, Colonel)
  c. George Boles, later Bowles of Mountprospect
  m. (1764) Dorothy Hunt (b c1744, d 1838, dau of Henry Hunt of Friarstown)
  (1) Henry Bowles of Glanaboy & Youghal (dspm 1824)
  m. Ann Boles (dau of Thomas Boles of Youghal) @@ above
  (2) George Bowles of Mountprospect (Major)
  m1. Elizabeth Nason (dsps, dau of John Nason of Newtown)
m2. Catherine Jones Hall (dau of William Hall of Bath)
  (A) George Bowles of Mountprospect (d 15.05.1879) had issue
  (B) Harry Bowles (d 14.09.1864) had issue
  (C) William Bowles (d unm 1879)
  (3) Spotswood Bowles of Ahern, co. Cork (b 1784, d 02.02.1864) had issue
m. (1812) Jane John (d 24.12.1885, dau of Thomas John of Youghal)
  (4) Anna Christina Bowles
  m. Francis Woodley of Leades
  (5) Catherine Bowles
  m. John Creighton (Lt. Colonel)
  (6) Dorothea Bowles
  m. Sir Henry Oakes, 2nd Bart of Mitcham (Lt. General)
  (7) Margaret Bowles
  m. Rev. Ralph Wartar Wilson of Kilcummer
  (8) Charlotte Bowles
  m. Henry Palmer
  (9) Maria Bowles
  m1. _ Browning (Lt. Colonel)
  m2. _ Bradich (Lt. Colonel)
  (10) Sophia Bowles
  m1. Robert Corban
  m2. John Benjamin Bloomfield
  (11) Harriet Bowles
  m. James Alexander (Major General)
  (12) Isabella de Vere Bowles
  m. William Woodley of Cork
  d. Anne Boles
  m. Charles Nixon Green of Youghal
2. Richard Boles (b 1614, d 1693)
  m. (1645) Abigail Ende of Cork
  A. Thomas Boles

 

 

William Bowles of Windsor, Berkshire
m. Elizabeth Modyford (dau of Sir Charles Modyford, Bart)
1. Charles Bowles of New Windsor (Jamaica), later of North Aston (Oxfordshire) (b 1707, d before 23.03.1780)
m. Jane Clarke (widow of Martin Fellowes) ## see here ##
  A. Oldfield Bowles of North Aston (d 1810)
  m1. (1768) Gertrude Bamfylde (b 1743, dsp 1769, dau of Sir Richard Bamfylde, Bart)
  m2. Mary Elton (dau of Sir Abraham Isaac Elton of Clivedon Court, Bart)
  i. Charles Oldfield Bowles, last of North Aston (b 30.08.1785, d 03.07.1862) had issue, dates from ancestry.co.uk
  m. Elizabeth Montagu (dau of Matthew Robinson, later Montagu, 4th Lord Rokeby)
ii. Jane Bowles (d 1812) probably of this generation
  m. (1791) Richard Palmer (b 1765, d 1806)
  iii. Mary Bowles (b 28.03.1773, d 25.07.1834) probably of this generation
  m. (06.12.1791) Sir George Armytage, 4th Bart of Kirklees (bpt 1761, d 1836)
  iv. Elizabeth Bowles (d 1841) probably of this generation
  m1. (20.08.1795) William Markham, later of Becca Hall (b 1760, d 1815)
  m2. Alexander James Mure (b 1793, dsp 1828)
  v. Emma Bowles probably of this generation
  m. (12.04.1796) Ralph Henry Brandling of Gosforth House, etc. (b 1771)
  vi. Lucy Bowles (d 07.11.1835) probably of this generation
  m. (18.04.1805) William Holbech of Farnborough (b 1774, d 1856)
  vii. Anne Bowles probably of this generation
  m. (1808) William Sturges, later Sturges-Bourne of Testwood (b 1769, d 1845)
  viii.+ 2 other daughters (8 in total)
  B. Ann Bowles
  m. _ Graham

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section (launched 30.10.19) : BLGI1912 ('Bowles of Ahern'), BLG1866 ("Bowles of Ahern')
(2) For lower section (launched 23.07.24) : ucl.ac.uk ('Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery', 'Charles Bowles of New Windsor' & 'Oldfield Bowles'), Wikipedia ('North Aston') with cross-references from elsewhere in the database
[The original lower section, launched on 30.10.19 being based on 'The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton', was absorbed by Bowles3 on 10.06.24.]
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