Judith Cowper was the fourth daughter and eighth child of John Cowper and Elizabeth Ironsides. She and her family are recorded in her father's Funeral Certificate of 1609 written by her brother, William Cowper.[1] Judith, born after 1582 at London, England, after the birth of her brother William in 1582, married Richard Bourne who was christened 18 Jun 1564 at Bobbingsworth, England.[2]

On her husband's death in 1632, Judith Bourne married secondly, Thomas Hill. Both Judith and Thomas Hill are mentioned in an "Assignment of residue of lease for 1,000 years," for two messuages called Guyse in West Ham, London, to which her son, Richard Bourne, is a party. A messuage is a dwelling house with outbuildings and land assigned to its use.

John Cutler of London, citizen and grocer, and Richard Bourne of Lincoln's Inn , esq. to John Knowles of Whitechapel , and Richard Paxford of Rochester , mariner
further assignment, 8 December 1636, by said John and Mary Heath to said Cutler at request of said Richard Bourne, jun., and with consent of Thomas Hill of London, Citizen and scrivener and wife Judith , to use of Richard Bourne, jun.[3]
According to a detailed history of her grandson, James Masters, Judith Hill died at Fulham, , England about 1653. Judith left James "£5, in token of remembrance."[4]

Children of Richard Bourne and Judith Cowper

All children except Judith were christened at St. Michael's, Cornhill, London, England. Only Anne, Sarah and Elizabeth are shown on the website Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors.

Elizabeth Bourne, b. 15 Jun 1600, Cornhill, Cornhill, London, England; d. 4 Nov 1676, Mereworth, Kent, England
William Bourne, b. 1601, London, England; c. 12 Jul 1601
Richard Bourne, b. 1602, Kempsey, Worchester, England; c. 11 Jul 1602 at St. Michael, London, Cornhill, England
Judith Bourne, b. 1603, London, England; c. 24 Jul 1603, of Bobbington, Essex, England
Katherine Bourne, b. 1604, London, England; bapt. 9 Sep 1604 at St. Michael, London, Cornhill, England
Susan Bourne, b. 1605, London, England; c. 6 Oct 1605 at St. Michael, London, Cornhill, England
Anne Bourne, c. 15 Feb 1606, of Bobbingworth, Essex, England; d. 24 Oct 1666, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island
Robert Bourne, c. 21 Apr 1613 in Cornhill, London, England
Margaret Bourne, c. 1 Jul 1614, London, England
Sarah Anne Bourne, b. 18 Jan 1615, New Haven, Connecticut; d. 12 Jan 1684, New Haven, Connecticut
Elizabeth BOURNE, b. Abt 1617 of Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. 12 Dec 1663, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Other possible children

John BOURNE, b. 1611-1622, Kempsey, Worcester, England; d. 8 Dec 1684, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Thomas BOURNE, b. 1614, England; d. Aug 1704, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Joseph BOURNE, b. Abt 1615, in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Martha BOURNE, b. Jan 1615, Kempsey, Worchester, England; bapt. 7 Jan 1615 at St Michael, Cornhill, London, England; d. 2 Oct 1683, Marshfield, Plymouth, Mass
Lydia BOURNE, b. Abt 1619, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Research Notes

Martha and Thomas may not be children of Richard and Judith Bourne. However, they may belong to Thomas Bourne-2 and Elizabeth Bourne-4.