Brief Life History of Lena
When Lena Ewen was born on 29 October 1927, in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Ewen, was 27 and her mother, Ethel Annabella Hill Reid, was 18. She married Robert Davidson in 1948, in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. She died in December 1979, at the age of 52.
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Spouse and Children
–1981 Male
1927–1979 Female
Parents and Siblings
1900–1972 Male
1909–1976 Female
Siblings (2)
1927–1979 Female
1931–1960 Male
World Events (8)
1934 · Scottish National Party founded.
Age 7
1940
Age 13
1941 · The Clydebank Blitz
Age 14
Name Meaning
Scottish and English: from the Scottish personal name Ewen, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Eòghan (Old Irish Eógan), sometimes rendered into Latin as Eugenius, from Greek eugenēs ‘well-born’. The Gaelic name, however, means ‘born of the yew-tree’ (Old Irish eó). See McEwen .
English and Welsh: from the Old and Anglo-Norman French personal name Iwain, Breton Iven, Even, a borrowing of Welsh Owain, Ewein, Ywein, ultimately derived from Latin Eugenius ‘well born’ (compare Owen ). In Herefordshire and Lincolnshire the personal name was borne by men of Breton descent. Its medieval popularity may have been enhanced by the heroic figure of Ywain in the 12th-century History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, who subsequently appeared as one of King Arthur's knights in Arthurian romances. The character derived from a 6th-century historical person, Owain mab Urien.
German and East Frisian: patronymic from Evo, a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name formed with ēwe ‘law, contract’, later ‘marriage’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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