When Stephen Bow was born on 9 June 1737, in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, his father, Alexander Bow Sr, was 36 and his mother, Lydia King, was 31. He married Mary Butler on 18 November 1756, in Middletown, Mattabeset, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 21 December 1773, in Middletown, Mattabeset, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 36.
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Scottish and English: habitational name from any of various minor places called with Old English boga ‘bow, arch, vault’, i.e. an arched bridge. There are places so called in Midlothian, Middlesex, and Devon.
Irish and English: variant of Bowes .
Chinese: possibly from Cantonese form of the Chinese names 寶 (meaning ‘treasure’) or 保 (meaning ‘protect’), which were monosyllabic personal names or part of disyllabic personal names of some early Chinese immigrants in the US.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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