When Catherine "Caty" Bowman was born on 8 December 1775, in Linville Creek, Rockingham, Virginia, United States, her father, Johann Jacob Bowman Jr., was 42 and her mother, Susannah Rachel Milhouse, was 25. She married John Miller Sr on 19 November 1789, in Rockingham, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 6 daughters. She died in 1844, in Washington, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Knob Creek Church Of the Brethren Cemetery, Knob Creek Mill, Washington, Tennessee, United States.
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English and Scottish: occupational name for an archer, hunter or soldier armed with a bow, from Middle English bow(e)man, bouman (from Old English boga ‘bow’ + mann ‘man’). This word was distinguished from Bowyer , which denoted a maker or seller of bows.
Americanized form of German Baumann or the Dutch cognate Bouwman .
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