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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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.
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Possible Related NamesCatherine 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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