'Boun1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Boun of Bakewell, Boun of Counden, Boun of Hulme

                               
Visitation indicates that 'Boun' was a variation of 'Bohun', and shows the Bouns of Coundon as having arms based on those of Bohun, which suggests that the following family is likely to have descended from that shown on Bohun1.
Robert Boun
m. _ Tibtoft (dau/heir of Richard Tibtoft)
1. Richard Boun of Bakewell, Derbyshire (a 1444)
  A. Christopher Boun of Bakewell (a 1466)
  m. Emma Page of Castleton (a 1484)
  i. Thurstan Boun of Hulme near Bakewell (a 1500)
m. Joana Brodhurst
  a. William Boun of Hulme
  m. Joanna Goodwin (dau of William Goodwin or Godwin)
  (1) Edward Boun
  m. Isabella Hunt (dau/coheir of Edward Hunt)
  (A) John Boun of Hulme
  m1. Barbara Leek (dau of John Leek of Edelmton)
  Thorold shows that John married Barbara Leek & Maria Neubold but is unclear which wife was mother of Gilbert. Nichols & Visitation do not name John's 1st wife but do show that the mother of Gilbert was ...
m2. Maria Newbold (dau of John Newbold)
  (i) Gilbert Boun (serjeant at law)
  m1. (sp) Maria Forfet (dau of Ed. Forfet of Billesby)
  m2. Millicent Waring (dau of John Waring)
  (a) John Boun (dsp)
  m. Maria Slatier
  (b) Gilbert Boun 'of Colby'
  m. Elizabeth Bedell (dau of Henry Bedell)
  (c) Maria Boun
  m. Charles Shelley
  (d) Ann Boun
  m. Robert Thoroton ("Athoris")
  (e) Barbara Boun
  m. John Story
  (2) George Boun
  (3) Frances Boun (dsp)
  m. Christopher Strelley
  (4) Anna Boun
  m. John Arnail
  b. John Boun this line not followed by Thorold
(1) Ralph Boun (Bowne) of Coventry & Counden, Warwickshire
  m. Isabella Bromley of Coventry
  (A) Isaac Boun (a 1590, 3rd son)
  m. Maria Smith (dau of Richard Smith of Coventry)
  (i) Ralph Boun (Bown) of Cowndon (Counden) (b c1592, d c1632)
  m1. Prudence Hovel (dau of William Hovel by Prudence, dau of John Danves of Culworth by Dorothy Rainsford)
  (a) Abraham Boun of Coundon (bpt 11.06.1617, Rector of Elmedon, 3rd son)
m. Elizabeth Bathurst (dau of George Bathurst of Hothorpe by Elizabeth, dau/coheir of Edward Villiers of Hothorpe)
  ((1)) George Boun in London (b c1643, a 1681, 2nd son)
  m. Maria Green (dau of Thomas Green of London)
  We speculate that this was the George Boun of Counden & Newhouse who was father of ...
((A)) Susanna Boun
  m. Gilbert Clarke of Ulcomb (d 1725)
  ((2)) Elizabeth Boun
  m. Charles Newburgh of Dundalk, Ireland
  ((3)) Anna Boun
  m. Thomas Fox of Chapell Fields
  ((4)) Judith Boun
  m. Humphrey Burton of Caresley
  ((5)) Judith Boun
  m. Humphrey Burton of Coventry (m1. Bridget Troughton)
  ((6))+ other issue - Ralph (b c1639, a 1681, d unm?, Rector of Kenton), Charles, John (b c1655), Prudentia (d unm), Maria (d unm), Susanna (a 1681, d unm?)
  (b) Maria Boun
  m. James Cradock of Pickfordgate
  (c)+ other issue (d young) - Isaac, Samuel
  m2. Lucy Whichcot (dau of Edward Whichcot of Salop)
  (ii) Abraham Boun of Coventry & Counden (b c1597, d 11.1670)
  m1. Anna Hunt (dau of John Hunt of Burford)
  (a) Jonas Boun of Fiunham, Warwickshire (b c1628, a 1681)
  m1. Anna Dalison (dau of Martin Dalison of London)
  ((1))+ issue (d young) - John, Anna
  m2. Maria Sowden (dau of Hugh Sowden of London)
  ((3)) Maria Boun (d young)
  m3. Maria Fox (dau of Jacob/James Fox of Leicester, relict of William Johnstoin)
  ((4)) Maria Boun (b 15.12.1676, a 1681)
  (b) Mary Boun
  m. Francis Cater of Coventry
  mc. Maria Hanslape (dau of Richard Hanslape of Southam by Anne Dormer)
  (a) Anne Boun
  m. Henry Wakeman of Rowley
  (iii) Elizabeth Boun
  m. _ Rose of Cosford
  (B)+

other issue - John (had issue, extinct), Samuel (dsp), Abraham (mx3?, dsp), Daniel (had issue, extinct)


Main source(s): Visitation (Warwickshire, 1682-3, 'Boun (Bohun) of Coundon'), 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester' (John Nichols, vol 4, part 2, 1811, 'Pedigree of Boun and Smyth of Warwick and Norwich', p644), 'History of Nottinghamshire' (Thorold (John Throsby 1796), vol 3, 'Hockerton', p126)
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