When David Bowen was born on 2 January 1842, in Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, John Bowen, was 29 and his mother, Mary Morgan, was 26. He married Lettice Jones from October 1870 to December 1870, in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Hengoed, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1871 and Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom for about 30 years. He died in 1915, in Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 73.
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Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Owain ‘son of Owain’ (see Owen ), with fused patronymic marker (a)p, which is normally voiced before a vowel.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhacháin ‘descendant of Buadhachán’, a diminutive of Buadhach ‘victorious’ (see Bohan ).
Irish: used to ‘translate’ Ó Cnáimhín ‘descendant of Cnáimhín’, a personal name meaning ‘little bone’ or ‘little body’, see Nevin 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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