Brief Life History of Rowan
When Rowan was born about 1635, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John Rowan III, 'Laird of Lanarkshire', was 32 and his mother, Janet Anderson, was 27.
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Irish: from Ó Ruadháin or Ó Ruaidhín, both meaning ‘descendant of Ruadhán’, a personal name from a diminutive of ruadh ‘red’. See also Rooney .
Irish: from Ó Ruadhacháin, ‘son of Ruadhachán’, a personal name from a diminutive of ruadh ‘red’ (also used as a placename and Anglicized as Roughan). Compare also Rogan (Ó Ruadhagáin), of which may be a variant, both it and Ó Ruadhacháin being found in Ulster and Connacht.
Irish: from Ó Robhacháin, the name of a scattered ecclesiastical family, found in Clare in the 16th and 17th centuries. The personal name was earlier Reabhachán ‘skillful, artful’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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