When John Robert Bowden was born on 13 June 1864, in New South Wales, Australia, his father, Thomas Bowden, was 40 and his mother, Hannah Wattus, was 32. He married Sarah Elizabeth Nix in 1887, in Stroud, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. He died on 8 February 1955, in Taree, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 90, and was buried in Stroud, New South Wales, Australia.
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End of transportation to Western Australia.
British troops withdraw from Australia.
Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
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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