Bowden Name Study
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Surname/tag: Bowden
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About the Project
The Bowden Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Bowden name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the SURNAME name.
As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual team studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Bowden's), by time period (18th Century Bowden's), or by topic (Bowden DNA, Bowden Occupations, Bowden Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.
Also see the related surnames and surname variants.
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Please contact the project leader Donna (Smith) Henderson or post a comment at the foot of the page. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!
Goals
This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.
Related Surnames and Surname Variants
Task List
- 1. To create Bowden profiles that are properly sourced.
- 2. To research and provide sources for unsourced profiles.
- 3. To connect unconnected Bowden profiles to the Global Wikitree.
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I am descended from William Bowden from Benenden Kent England who migrated to Australia in 1838 with his wife Elizabeth nee Godfrey and their children. Sadly a son died en route, Elizabeth died in quarantine in Sydney NSW, and another son died within a few weeks of arrival. William raised the remainder of his large family in the Hunter Valley region of NSW. The furthest we can go back to date with any certainty is to Job Bowden who was born Benenden in 1740 and married Elizabeth Hinkley. My DNA previously showed strong links to Devon and Cornwall so I did think that was to the many Bowden families from those counties, but the latest updates don’t show this. They now show my dna centred in south east England. I would love to be able to explore this further. Good luck with your research, Narelle
Not sure where your Bowdens come from but I have Bowden ancestry in Cheshire, England. My gr grandmother was born Elizabeth Bowden in 1851 in Manchester, but I can trace back a further 3 generations first in Liverpool and then going further back in Tarporley, Cheshire. Not sure if it's of interest. there is a town in Cheshire called Bowdon (slightly different spelling) - don't know if that's where the name might originate? Regards, good luck with your research, Paul
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My great-grandaunt Sarah Pepperrell married a Thomas Bowden in 1859 in Kenton, Devon. They had eight children which I have found both birth & baptism sources for but I have not created their profiles yet.
Could I add a sub-category Devon, Bowden Name Study to your Bowden Name Study or would you prefer that I just link to the existing Bowden Name Study category?
Regards and good luck with making connections
Phil
Based in Somerset, England