Dana Furby's Notes (021)
Last Updated : 6 Mar 2009

19th February 2002
The story goes that Bowren Furby (Bowren may have been a middle name) came to the US from Coventry, England where he had been a tailor. He came with his wife (name unknown) and three children, Joseph Bowren, Anna and Evelyn, to a Pennsylvania Dutch community. Joseph Bowren Furby was my Great Great Grandfather and he was the one who moved, with his wife Mary Ludwick, to Onarga, Illinois in the late 1800's where the rest of my Furby family lived (Great Grandad Ira Wilson and Grandad Seeley Bowren) until my father moved to California and raised me. I'm very interested to learn more about the Furbys in England pre-1850.