Brief Life History of Mary Lovel
When Mary Lovel Bowen was born on 25 April 1804, in Compton, Quebec, Canada, her father, John Bowen, was 59 and her mother, Catherine French, was 45. She married Thomas Humphrey Jr on 17 April 1832, in Hatley, Memphrémagog, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States in 1880.
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- Mary L Humphreys in household of Lucius M Humphreys, "United States Census, 1880"
- Mary L Bowen Humphrey in entry for Baxter Humphrey and Laura M Green, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
- Mary Humphrey in entry for Jacob Libbey and Mary M Baldwin, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital
In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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.
Name Meaning
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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