Mary Bowden

Female9 May 1930–16 July 2005

Brief Life History of Mary

Mary Bowden was born on 9 May 1930, in County Dublin, Ireland. She died on 16 July 2005, in San Rafael, Marin, California, United States, at the age of 75.

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Sources (2)

  • Mary C Sugrue, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Mary C Bowden, "Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958"

World Events (3)

1931

Age 1

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

1932

Age 2

Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

1937

Age 7

New elections. The voters return de Valera and also approve a new constitution which abolishes the Irish Free State and proclaims Eire (Gaelic for Ireland) as a sovereign, independent, democratic state.

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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