Brief Life History of Isabel
When Isabel Bowden was born on 1 December 1810, in Lymm, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Bowden, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth Gorton, was 22. She married Henry Smith on 29 April 1833, in Warrington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died in 1835, in her hometown, at the age of 25, and was buried in Lymm, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Isabella Bodin, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Isabel Boden in entry for Henry Smith, "England, Lancashire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1647-1996"
- Isabella Boden, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
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1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called Bowden or Bowdon. Bowden in Devon and Derbyshire and Bowdon in Cheshire are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + dūn ‘hill’, i.e. ‘hill shaped like a bow’; one in Leicestershire (Bugedone in Domesday Book) comes, according to Ekwall, from the Old English personal name Būga (masculine) or Bucge (feminine) + dūn. There are also Scottish places of this name, but there are comparatively few bearers of the surname Bowden north of the border. In England, the surname is found most frequently in Lancashire and in the West Country. In Devon and Cornwall there has been some confusion with the Norman personal name Baldwin .
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill, from Middle English buve dun ‘above the hill’ (Old English būfan dūne, as in the placename Bowden, Wiltshire).
Scottish: habitational name from Bowden in Roxburghshire, named from Old English bōthl ‘dwelling-house’ + Old English denu ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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