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Barbara Aubrey;Barbara Awbrey or Catherine Awbrey
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birth: Jul 1637 Pencoed, Wales
death: 26 Nov 1710 Treverigg, Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, Wales
burial: Treverigg, Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, Wales
marriage: 26 Nov 1665 Treverigg, Wales
immigration: Nov 1683 to Philadelphia on ship ""Morning Star""
parents: William Aubrey;Sheriff of Glamorganshire, Elizabeth Thomas
spouse: John (ap Evan) Bevan;John of Treverigg
children: Katherine Bevan, John Bevan Jr....
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name: Barbara Aubrey
gender: Female
birth: Jul 1637
Pencoed, Wales
death: 26 Nov 1710
Treverigg, Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, Wales
burial: Treverigg, Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, Wales
AFN: 5FTK-DCB
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father: William Aubrey (AFN: 5FWC-XH9 )
mother: Elizabeth Thomas (AFN: 5FWD-1RF )
Marriages (1)
spouse: John (ap Evan) Bevan (AFN: 5FTK-1FT )
marriage: 26 Nov 1665
Treverigg, Wales
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submitter: mbwinter2768545
submission date: 11 Sep 2003
submission id: MM9R-3VZ
person count: 4,655
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p. 170 The mother of his (John Bevan's) children was named Barbara. He married her in 1665. According to tradition, and the statements of some of her descendants, she was the daughter of William Awbrey, of Pencoed. In one pedigree she is called "Barbar
p. 170 The mother of his (John Bevan's) children was named Barbara. He married her in 1665. According to tradition, and the statements of some of her descendants, she was the daughter of William Awbrey, of Pencoed. In one pedigree she is called "Barbara of ------Wenvoe"; in another genealogy "Catherine, the daughter of William Awbrey, of Pencoed," is given as the wife of John Bevan, Senior, of Treverigg. There can be no question of the fact that John Bevan did marry a daughter of William Awbrey, of Pencoed (see his will), and if he was not married twice, then the name Catherine is a misprint or clerical error for Barbara, or else she was baptized Barbara Catherine.
Member of Church of England but changed to Friends when married to John Bevan of Treverigg. Was a major force iin Quaker religion of the time. This book gives her death date as November 26, 1710, aged 73 years and 4 months.
The ancestry of Barbara Aubrey, back to the dark ages, is in a separate database: Bevan-Aubrey Royal Lineage Barbara Aubrey's father, without doubt, was William Aubrey. Some genealogists, using JORDAN as a reference, claim that Barbara's mother was Letitia Penn, daughter of William Penn. Based on the following references, that is not proven. Jordan, in Colonial and Rev. Families, p. 140, states: "Wiliam Awbrey married as *his second wife, Letitia, dau. of William Penn, the founder. A daughter Martha* became a member of the Soc. of Friends and emigrated with John and Barbara Awbrey Bevan to PA and was married to Rees Thomas at Haverford Meeting, June 18, 1692. The exact relationship between Barbara ... and Martha...who married Rees thomas, has not been determined." {Willliam's first wife was Elizabeth Thomas.} T. A. Glenn, in Merion in the Welsh Tract, Appendix. p. 386,387, discusses the relationship of John Bevan and his nephew, Rees Thomas. He quotes a note by Howard Williams Lloyd, as follows: "In a letter writter by Rees Thomas, dated 2/29/1695, addressed to his father-in-law William Awbrey {his wife Martha's father}, ....'My unkle John Bevan came over ....' If this relationship was the same as we now {Jordan published in 1911} understand to exist between uncle and nephew, it could have been in only one of two ways. Either Barbara, wife of John Bevan, being sister to the father or to the mother of Rees Thomas. It could not have been through the father of {Rees Thomas} being a brother of John Bevan. This needs no argument. Rees had cousins whose father used Thomas as a fixed surname. William, John, and David Thomas of Radnor,....(Will of David Thomas .. 4/29/1732, proved 6/11/1737 at Phila.) Neither could it have been by the mother of Rees Thomas being sister to John Bevan. The only sister of {John Bevan} died young. *There could be no possible relationship through Martha, wife of Rees Thomas. {Rees Thomas} distinctly writes 'my' uncle, not ' our' uncle. Elizabeth, the mother of Martha, was an only child. William, the father of Martha, was of Llanelieu, Breconshire, and son of Thomas Awbrey. Was John Bevan married twice? First to Barbara (perhaps Thomas) of Wenvoe, second to Catherine, daughter of William Awbrey, of Pencoed, near Llaniltern, Glamorganshire.* Howard Williams Lloyd. Glenn contiues: "The above note (by Lloyd) needs some little explanation. Lloyd seems to be of the opinion that John Bevan was married twice, and that Rees Thomas was his nephew through the Thomas family of Wenvoe. Lloyd gives his opinion, first, upon the statement of Mr. Clark, in his Glamorganshire Families, that John Bevan, Sr., {Senior?} of Treverigg, married Barbara, of Wenvoe, and the statement by the same authority, in the pedigree of the Awbreys, of Pencoed, that Catherine, daughter of William Awbrey, of that place, married John Bevan, of Treverigg. "Now, in the first place we know positively, from the will of John Bevan, that he did marry a daughter of William Awbrey, of Pencoed, and that she did not survive him. We also know that his children named their sons Awbrey before the death of Barbara Bevan, and we have the statement of Rees Thomas, {husband of} Martha Awbrey, a kinswoman to the Awbreys of Pencoed, that his second son was the first of the name iin Pennsylvania, implying a possibiity of other Awbreys in the near future. There is little question that 'Catherine' is a typographical error for Barbara. William Awbrey, of Pencoed, married a Thomas living near Wenvoe, of a family who had assumed this surname for several generations prior to 1682, and among them, the name Rees Thomas was of frequent occurrence, so that it is probably that Rees Thomas was thus related to John Bevan. The term "uncle" in Wales means any relationship, such as first or second cousin once removed." { } inserted by MBW. {* -- *} The two statements enclosed * - * are contradictory. While JORDAN does not state that Letitia Penn is the mother of Martha Awbrey, the sentence seems to imply that. It does not imply that Letitia Penn was Barbara's mother. We believe that Barbara has sisters Martha and Mary, and a brother William, Jr. and that Letitia Penn married William, Jr. Glenn/Lloyd states that Elizabeth {Thomas,} an only child, was the mother of Martha. Barbara and Martha would have been sisters though separated by as much as 30+ years. Barbara, the older married sister, would have been an acceptable chaperone for the younger unmarried Martha on their emigration to America. We do not have marriage or death dates for William Awbrey but he would have been over 75 by 1683 or even deceased when the Bevans emigrated to America. Martha married in 1692, eleven years after she arrived in America with the Bevan family. I think it is reasonable to assume that Martha was born around 1680, and that she was a young girl in the care of her older relative when she emigrated. Based on the facts given by the two authors, Jordan and Glenn, and Glenn's quotations from Lloyd, Letitia Penn could not have been the mother of Barbara Awbrey. The vital dates for William Penn, Letitia's father (Columbia-Viking Desk Encyclopedia, 1964), place Letitia's birth date as, at the earliest possibly 1660, when William Penn was 16. Barbara was born in 1637 and was 23 years old in 1660. If Letitia was born about 1660, and married at 17 to the widowed William Awbrey (1677), her child Martha might have been born as early as 1678. Martha would have been only 5 years old when she came to America in 1683 and only 13 when she married in 1692. I have a note which says that Elizabeth Thomas Awbrey, 1st wife of William Awbrey and mother of Barbara Awbrey Bevan, died after 1678. If that date is fact, then William Awbrey married Letitia Penn after 1678, Martha was born no earlier than 1679, and would have been a child of 3 or 4 when she came to America and only 13 when she married iin 1692. Not impossible, but not in line with the ages of John and Barbara Bevan's own daughters when they married. Also, JORDAN states that Martha "became a member of the Soc. of Friends and emigrated to America." That implies that Martha was an adult when she came to America. That Martha was a Quaker, there is no doubt, but her age when she came to America is in question. Thus, JORDAN's information concerning Martha appears quite flawed. Glenn does not mention a second wife for William Awbrey -- Letitia Penn or anyone else. Another researcher claims that a Mary Aubrey, child of William and Elizabeth Thomas Awbrey, came to America, married Dr. Rowland Bevan, and began a line of Bevans in MD and VA. Dates, etc., would need to be researched on this, but for information only, Mary Awbrey has been included in this database.
Sources
Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Vol. I - III John W. Jordan, LL.D., 1911
Merion in the Welsh Tract Thomas Allen Glenn 1896
Mormon Genealogy Ancestral File v. 4.19
Collection of Memorials, Philadelphia 1797 1787
Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants... Gary Boyd Roberts Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
Source Citation
"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/9CN4-J5M : accessed 11 December 2011), entry for Barbara Aubrey.