Brief Life History of Thomas Bradford
When Thomas Bradford Bowden was born on 27 December 1802, in Kershaw, Camden District, South Carolina, United States, his father, Colonel James Simeon Bowden, was 27 and his mother, Mary Bradford, was 18. He lived in Kershaw, South Carolina, United States in 1820 and Jackson, Mississippi, United States in 1850. He died on 30 October 1850, at the age of 47.
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Sources (2)
- Thomas Bowdon, "United States Census, 1820"
- Thomas Bowdon, "United States Census, 1850"
Parents and Siblings
1775–1837 Male
1784–1848 Female
Siblings (10)
1801–1837 Female
1802–1850 Male
1805–1880 Female
1807–1815 Male
1809–1822 Male
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World Events (7)
1803
Age 1
1803 · Louisiana Purchase Opens Mississippi for Commerce
Age 1
1817
Age 15
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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