Sarah Bowen

Brief Life History of Sarah

When Sarah Bowen was born about 1717, in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Hezekiah Bowen, was 36 and her mother, Elizabeth London, was 35. She married Joshua Rand on 12 September 1736, in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 6 April 1739, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 23, and was buried in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

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Family Time Line

Joshua Rand
1713–
Sarah Bowen
1717–1739
Marriage: 12 September 1736
Sarah Rand
1737–
Joshua Rand
1738–

Sources (6)

  • Sarah Rand, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Sarah Bowen, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
  • Rand, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"

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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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