When Mary Owen was born about 1850, in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Griffith Owen, was 44 and her mother, Mary Jones, was 32. She lived in Cadoxton, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died on 26 February 1865, at the age of 16.
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 .
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