Brief Life History of John William
When John William Bowden Sr was born in 1805, in North Carolina, United States, his father, William Bowden Sr, was 32 and his mother, Nancy Wiggins, was 30. He married Cinthia Hickerson about 1829, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 11 October 1846, in DeSoto, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Independence, Tate, Mississippi, United States.
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- John Bowden, "United States Census, 1840"
- John Bowden, "Find A Grave Index"
- John W. Bowden, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (7)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1817
Mississippi is the 20th state.
Name Meaning
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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