Account of the families of Boase or Bowes

THE FAMILY OF BOASE OF PAUL AND MADRON
IN CORNWALL.
The Family of Boase (or Bowes) was settled in the
parishes of Paul and Madron at the end of the sixteenth
century. Ursula, daughter of William Bowes, was buried
at Madron, 14 Dec. 1578 ; Joan, daughter of Edward Bowes,
was buried at Paul, 16 Feb. 160^; and Cresten, daughter of
Kichard Bose, was baptised 27 Feb. 160§, at Paul. The
earlier registers at Paul unfortunately perished when the
Spaniards burnt the place 23 July 1595. The name was at
first usually spelt Bowes, but it is also spelt, like most other
names at that time, in a variety of ways ; and the spelling
Boase became the common one in the eighteenth century.
Two entries, at Paul about the same person run thus :
" Arthur, son of John Boase, bap. 1 Nov. 1652;" "Arthur
Bowes married Florence, 18 June 1686." The present
account is taken from a pedigree entered at the Herald's
Office 1810 by Henry Boase, Esq., and duly recorded by Sir
Isaac Heard, Garter King at Arms. It reaches from 1681
to 1809, and has been supplemented from family informa-
tion, from wills, and from the registers. The following
notes supply additional particulars taken from these sources.
The five marks * f || % § mean throughout "at Paul,
Madron, Penzance, London, Dundee" respectively.
Simon Bowes m. * 8 July 1676 Sara Shutford. He was
probably son of the Simon who d. 1697. Administration of his
effects was granted at Bodmin, 31 Aug. 1723, to his daughter
Sarah, wife of John Bramble, yeoman. The will of his son
John is dated at Chioon (in Paul) 9 Oct. 1721, and the pro-
hate at Bodmin 1 Oct. 1722. By it he leaves to his sisters
Sarah Bramble and Phillis Berryman equal shares of his
lease lands, &c. ; to his sister Ursula Boase £20, to be paid
to John Boson, gentleman, her trustee, within six years, the
executors meanwhile paying him 20 shillings yearly for
her : the executors are his brothers-in-law, John Brambel
and John Berryman ; his aunt, Blanch Shutford, he leaves
to the care of his sisters ; the witnesses are .Roger Robarts,
Relvisa Maddern, Jane Tonkin. Blanch Shutford may
have been Blanch Sampson of Penzance, who married
Robert Shutford 1 May 1704, if Robert was brother of
Philip Shutford, the father of Sara Shutford, who was
mother of John Bowes. The Bosons were then the leading
people in the place, and John Boson was probably the well-
known Cornish scholar, the correspondent of William
Gwavas and others {sec Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, under
Boson and Gwavas). Juliana, who married John Bowes,*
30 Ap. 1686, was probably the daughter of George Boson,
Esq., and this alliance may be the reason of John Boson
becoming trustee for one of the family [see Boson pedigree).
Another Simon Bowes, probably connected with this one, m.
*3 March 1767, Penelope Ladner of Paul ("with her
father's consent," i.e. she was under age : witnesses, Thomas
Hoskin, Stephen Barnes).
John Bowes, of Tredavo in Paul, who died 1681. There
was a family tradition that he came over from Holland and
founded the family in Paul. This must be incorrect, but
he may have been in Holland, and come back in later life to
his native parish. Richard Daniell, one of the chief land-
owners in the district, was Governor of Middleburg, under
Sir Robert Sidney 1612-14 ; and, through bis connections (he
married twice there), the Daniell family may have been
able to forward the interests of a countryman. This con-
jecture rests on the fact that in a rent roll (printed further
on) of Richard Daniell, in 1657, John Boos appears as hold-
ing Tredavo under him at a conventionary rent of £5 — the
highest rent given. The administration of John Bowes'
property was granted at Bodmin, 21 Nov. 1681, to his son
Robert, Jane the widow having renounced. Robert
probably moved to Penzance, having married Mary Rawliag
of that place (see below under Boase of Madron and Pen-
zance) . It is to be noted that there was probably another
John Bowes living at this time in Paul, for an obscure entry
in the register seems to read " (Cisley ?) wife of John Bowes,
buried 11 April 1661." If so, some of the later children
(after Robert and Arthur) here assigned to John Bowes, who
died 1681, may be really children of this second John Bowes.
At the death of the first John Bowes in 16S1, Robert seema
to have been the eldest son living. William, perhaps son
of this second John Bowes, was baptised * 23 July 1648,
P buried * 28 July 16S9, having had a son, William, baptised
* 2 April 1678. John, another son (? of the John who
died 1681) died 1734, and administration was granted at
Bodmin, 17 July 1734, to his son William, and daughter
Jame, wife of Thomas John.
Richard Boase of Newlyn, was witness to his brother
Arthur's marriage in 1760, and Arthur's daughter, Anne's,
marriage in 1783, and died in 1788. Administration was
granted at Bodmin 23 September 1788, to his widow Sarah.
The witnesses to their marriage in 1 754 (by licence) are John
Tonkin and Arthur Boase. Both Richard and his widow
Saiah Berryman, were buried in Paul Church, and a
mortuary paid for them, of 10s. 6d. and a guinea
respectively. The will of their son John is dated 13
December 1794. He leaves to his daughter Phillis £500
to be paid her at the age of 21, or on her marriage, if
she marry before that age, four per cent, interest being
allowed her meanwhile : the same to his daughter Elizabeth
Harvey, both sums being charged on his real estates. His
only son John is made executor and residuary legatee. The
witnesses are Harry and Mary Tonkin and James Pascoe.
On 2 February 1795 administration was granted at Bodmin
to George Glasson, uncle-in-law and guardian of John
Boase, the executor, power being reserved to grant the like
administration to John Boase when of age. Stamp £11 10s.
John Boase's seal is attached.