When Kathleen Susan Bow was born in 1908, in New Zealand, her father, Charles Bow, was 37 and her mother, Mary Ann Susannah Manning, was 36. She married Kenneth Herbert Cordes in 1932, in New Zealand. She died on 19 September 1961, in Auckland, New Zealand, at the age of 53.
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Outbreak of World War I. New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.
The Ross Dependency is a New Zealand dependency located on the Antarctician Continent. It is the only settlement on the Antartica that is claimed by a sovereign nation. New Zealand still owns claim even after the Antarctic Treaty that was signed in 1959 by 11 other nations.
WWII. Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.
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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