When Elizabeth Bowen was born in 1792, in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Francis Bowen, was 23 and her mother, Elizabeth Jones, was 23. She married William Albert Davies in 1813, in Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1881.
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.
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