Catherine Bow

Brief Life History of Catherine

When Catherine Bow was born on 9 October 1825, in Torrance, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Bow, was 35 and her mother, Janet Forsyth, was 32. She married William Stuart Brighton on 31 December 1850, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 19 July 1894, in Brighton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Stuart Brighton
1829–1895
Catherine Bow
1825–1894
Marriage: 31 December 1850
Janet Hare Brighton
1851–1937
Mary Bow Brighton
1853–1854
Robert Alexander Brighton
1855–1932
William Henry Brighton
1857–1943
Thomas Bow Brighton
1860–1904
Daniel Hanmer Wells Brighton
1864–1943

Sources (47)

  • Cathrine Brighton in household of William Brighton, "Scotland Census, 1851"
  • Birth 9 October 1825 and Baptismal Record of Catherine Bow on 30 October 1825 at Campsie, Stirlingshire, Scotland (1825-1894) - IMAGE
  • Catherine Bow, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"

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World Events (8)

1830

Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).

1832 · The Scottish Reform Act

The Scottish Reform Act was introduced by Parliament that introduced changes to the election laws in Scotland. The Act didn’t change the method of how the counties elected members but adopted a different solution for each pair of counties. Ultimately, it brought about boundary changes so that some burghs would have more say for the country than others.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

Scottish and English: habitational name from any of various minor places called with Old English boga ‘bow, arch, vault’, i.e. an arched bridge. There are places so called in Midlothian, Middlesex, and Devon.

Irish and English: variant of Bowes .

Chinese: possibly from Cantonese form of the Chinese names 寶 (meaning ‘treasure’) or 保 (meaning ‘protect’), which were monosyllabic personal names or part of disyllabic personal names of some early Chinese immigrants in the US.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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CATHERINE BOW BRIGHTON

Catherine was born 9 October 1825 at Torence Campsie in Stirling County, and raised in Edinborough and Anderson. It was in Anderson that William Stuart Brighton first kissed his Catherine (Catie). Cat …

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