When Catherine Owen was born on 20 May 1674, in Llanfair, Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Owen, was 34 and her mother, Margaret Lewis, was 34.
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Welsh: from the personal name Owain, from Latin Eugenius (see Eugene ). This Welsh personal name is cognate with Old Irish Eogán, see 2 and 3.
Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eoghain ‘son of Eoghan’. See McEwen .
Irish: from Ó hEoghain, ‘descendant of Eoghan’. See Ewen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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