Family:Richard Bowen and Unknown Unknown (1)

Richard Bowen b. Abt 1594 Wales bur. 4 Feb 1674/75 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States	Unknown b. Bef 1600 d. Bef Nov 1648

m. Est 1619 Wales

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Marriage^[1]^[2]

Est 1619

Children

		Birth	Death
1.	Alice Bowen	Est 1620 Wales	Aft 11 Jan 1695/96
2.	William Bowen	Est 1622 Wales	bur. 10 Mar 1687 Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA
3.	Sarah Bowen	Est 1624 Wales	14 Oct 1676 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
4.	Ruth Bowen	Est 1626 Wales	bur. 31 Oct 1688 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
5.	Obadiah Bowen	Cal 1628 Wales	10 Sep 1710 Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
6.	Richard Bowen	Est 1631 Wales	Bef 25 Mar 1722/23 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
7.	Thomas Bowen	Est 1634 Wales	Bet 11 Apr 1663 and Feb 1663/64 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States

Seven children, all born in Wales; all died in Rehoboth, MA. Looks like they emigrated after 1632.

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bowen/kbowen_boyer.html points out that there is "no shred of evidence" identifying even the first name of Richard's first wife, much less her surname.

References

↑ Sanborn, Melinde Lutz. Third Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., c2003)
page 31.

'BOWEN, Richard1 (c1594-1674/5) & 1/wf _____ _____ (not Ann) (a welsh woman); Wales/Rehoboth [TAG 76:263-77]'
↑ Bowen, Richard LeBaron, Jr. The Ancestry, Wives, and Children of Richard Bowen of Weymouth and Rehoboth, Massachusetts: With Notes on His Sons-in-law Robert Wheaton and Robert Fuller and on Griffith Bowen of Roxbury, Massachusetts. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (October 2001)
76:277.

The name of (Richard Bowen's) first wife, whom he married about 1619 and who was presumably the mother of his children, is not known.