Amelia Bowden

Brief Life History of Amelia

When Amelia Bowden was born on 4 October 1835, in North Molton, Devon, England, her father, John Bowden, was 27 and her mother, Mary Collard, was 27. She lived in Wingville, Grant, Wisconsin, United States in 1860 and Muscoda, Grant, Wisconsin, United States in 1900. She died on 4 April 1920, in Fennimore, Grant, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Muscoda, Grant, Wisconsin, United States.

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Abraham Jackson
1833–1908
Amelia Bowden
1835–1920

Sources (9)

  • Amelia Bowden in household of John C Bowden, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Amelia Bawden, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Emelia Bowden, "Wisconsin, Marriages, 1836-1930"

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World Events (8)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1836

Historical Boundaries: 1836: Grant, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1848: Grant, Wisconsin, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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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