Bowden Family History
Bowden 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’ + dun
‘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 Buga (masculine) or
Bucge (feminine) + dun. There are also Scottish
places of this name, but there are comparatively few bearers of the
surname Bowden north of the border. WN 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: habitational name from Bovingdon,
Hertfordshire, so named with the Old English phrase bufan
dune ‘on, upon the hill’. The surname may also have arisen as a
topographic name from the same phrase used independently, for someone
who lived at the top of a hill.Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic
Ó Buadáin ‘descendant of Buadán’, an Old Irish
personal name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
768,103
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bowden
Name Distribution of Bowden Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bowden families
 817 - 1,632  273 - 816 |
 1 - 272  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bowden families
|
30 - 58 11 - 29 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bowden Family Origin
Bowden Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bowden Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Bowden Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bowden census records
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