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The Name and Family of BOWEN
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The surname "BOWEN" is derived from the Welsh "ab Owen" or resented by a list of Christian names separated by ap" or "ab", as "William ap Robert ap James ap William ap Robert ap James ap Thomas. When one family arrived at some importance he would take as surname the Christian name of his father. So that it came that "ab Owen came into usage. At times brothers would different surnames. The Bowen lineage traces back to Bleddin ao Maenerch, last British sovereign of Brecknock as recorded in "Limbus Platrum Morganiae et Glamorganiae" by G.T. Clark and the " Golden Grove Book" Hugh Thomas, Deputy Herald , 1703. Our branch of the family dates back to the Bowens of Court House, Ilston, Glamorganshire, Wales. Dropping the "ab" in front the OWEN they became Bowen some time around the year 1441. A member of this family, Col. Henry Bowen went to Ireland with Cromwell and settled there. This branch of the family ably presented by Elizabeth Bowen in her "Bowen Court" written 1939-1941.

Source Mrs. Margaret Campbell Pitche of Nashville, Tn.

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