User talk:Sargenealogist

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Bowley Arnold [8 June 2015]

Hi

Thank you for the very interesting paragraph you have added to my notes on Bowley Arnold. I am a Canadian living in England and do not have access to American archive sources that are not online. The tree could have traced back another generation or two, but the sources I had to hand were too sketchy for WeRelate.

I note that the Rensslaer County census is on the Ancestry website. I uploaded my Bowley Arnold page 2-3 years ago before I decided to move up to a worldwide membership and it's one of those facts that I had not got back to investigating. Do you have any knowledge of the family of the other Bowley Arnold? It's an unusual given name. I know the origins of it and it was used in alternate generations of the family since the beginning of the 18th century, but it must have been adopted in other parts of the tree as well.

Are you new to WeRelate? I haven't seen your name before.

/cheers --Goldenoldie 18:35, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

I have nothing on your Bowley.

I have lots on Bowley and Eunice Griggs Arnold. Parentage of my Bowley has never been established with reasonable proof. The best I have is that he is the illegitimate son of Patina Royce (no father). All of Patina Royce children are listed as illegitimate by Susan Dimock in her book "Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths from the Records of the Town and Churches in Mansfield, CT, 1703-1850" (1898). There is some speculation, based on the naming of one of her sons, Bowley Arnold, that the father was the Bowley Arnold of Mansfield, CT, who was married to Elizabeth Lathrop. While not proof, the dates match up and this is where this researcher has placed Bowley.--Sargenealogist 18:44, 8 June 2015 (UTC)