Individual Details

Mary "Molly" Bowles

(13 Dec 1767 - )



Molly's birth recorded in The Douglas Register. She was baptized 24 Jan 1768.

Molly is said to have married Benjamin Collins Johnson ca 1782. They had three children - two of them were Sally Curd Johnson & Mary Waddell Johnson who were twins. The third child may have been Benjamin C. Johnson. She married second James Flanagan who had five sons by a former marriage. Molly's twins married two of the sons of James Flanagan.

Catherine Curd Flanagan, b. 1823, has been quoted as saying her Uncle Drury Bowles had four half brothers, Anderson, Jesse, Richard & Knight, and sisters Nancy, Elizabeth, & Mary, her grandmother, who was B. C. Johnson's first wife.

Events

Birth13 Dec 1767Goochland County, Virginia
Marriage1 Aug 1784Amherst County, Virginia - Living
MarriageJames Flanagan

Families

SpouseLiving
ChildBenjamin C. Johnson (1785 - 1874)
SpouseJames Flanagan ( - )
FatherKnight Bowles (1745 - 1820)
MotherSarah Curd ( - )
SiblingNancy Bowles (1770 - )
SiblingAnderson Bowles (1774 - )
SiblingThomas Bowles ( - )
SiblingSally Bowles ( - )
SiblingFrances "Fanny" Bowles ( - )
SiblingRichard C. Bowles ( - 1817)
SiblingJohn Bowles (1776 - 1816)
SiblingLiving