♀Joane (surname unknown)

Joane (buried 21 May 1570) was a woman of Frittenden, in Kent, England, the second of the three wives of Thomas Fowle. She was most likely the eleventh great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007) by two separate lines of descent, through her son Richard Fowle (1569–1632).

Her surname and family are not known, nor when she married Thomas, who had married his first wife, Elizabeth Carre, at Frittenden on 22 October 1564. Thomas’s second wife, Joane, was most likely the mother of his daughter Joane, christened on 6 May 1568, and of his son Richard, christened at Frittenden on 18 December 1569. Joane was buried at Frittenden on 21 May 1570, when Richard was five months old. Thomas married a third time, and Richard grew up with a stepmother, Margery.

Lines of descent

Both lines run through her son Richard Fowle (1569–1632) and Richard’s daughter Joan Fowle (1604–1688), who married Richard Borden. They meet again in Salena Sherman (1806–1842), whose parents Waite Allen (1766–1850) and Batchelder Sherman (1761–1828) both descended from Joane.

Notes

Sources

Her marriage to Thomas Fowle and her burial at Frittenden are from G. Andrews Moriarty’s account of the family, “Fowle-Borden”, in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 75 (1921), p. 232, built from the Frittenden parish register. Moriarty gives her only as “Joane —“, the second of Thomas’s three wives.

Her children

Moriarty places the daughter Joane and the son Richard as probably her children. A son of Thomas’s whose name is not recorded, buried at Frittenden on 18 January 1571/2, was a child of the first or the second wife. No register entry names the mother of any of them.