When Hannah Gowing was born in February 1648, in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Robert Gowing, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Brock, was 27. She died on 1 October 1732, in Wilmington, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 84.
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English (East Anglia): from the Middle English personal name Gowyn, Old French Gouin, a shortening of ancient Germanic names formed with Gudin-, or perhaps from Breton gwen ‘fair’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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