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Here is the Marriage Allegation & Bond information on Thomas Bowen & Sarah Gardner's marriage in 1764.

Yes, I found those & have been going through the original parish registers thank you but can't get far enough back (I think Saint Martin's goes back to the mid-1500s & that's what I'd need). And since I live in Canada, I can't take a trip to the Birmingham Library unfortunately. Oh well, will...

Here's the information I gathered about James Bowen's birth in 1812. The parish register says John & Mary Bowen are his parents. I searched through the original parish records around 1812 & can't find another James.

Does anyone know if I can find the parish registers for 1700 on for Saint Martin church in Birmingham? I need to comb through the originals to try & find the baptism of an ancestor.

I'm tracing the Bowen Family tree from Thomas Bowen 1736. & Sarah Gardner 1742 through to the present day & on my family tree there is NO James Bowen born to ANY Jonas descended from Thomas & Sarah Bowen. There IS a James Bowen whose father was JOHN & mother Mary. I'll see if I can find that...

Thomas Bowen & Sarah's MARRIAGE BOND says that he was 28 when he married which makes his birth date 1736. In the same marriage bond Sarah was listed as being 22 making her birth date 1742 or thereabouts.

I'm the 4x great-grand-daughter of Jonas Bowen (1786) & Esther Prime (1783) via their son George (1828) & yes indeed, Jonas was a brass founder. His descendents ended up being "electroplaters" & "manufacturers of silver & plateware". Feel free to contact me if you need any more pieces of the...