When Allen Bowie Jr was born in 1737, in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's, Maryland, British Colonial America, his father, John Bowie III, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Pottinger, was 16. He married Ruth Cramphin on 28 December 1766, in Maryland, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 28 May 1803, in Maryland, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Rockville Cemetery, Rockville, Montgomery, Maryland, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1755: Frederick, Maryland Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Montgomery, Maryland, United States
Maryland is the 7th state.
Scottish: from Gaelic buidhe ‘yellow’, i.e. ‘yellow-haired’, pronounced as two syllables. The equivalent term in Ireland is buí, often Anglicized as boy. The surname may also be a shortened form of Gilboy .
Irish: Anglicized form of Ó Buadhaigh (see Bogue ).
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