Old Travel Blog Photograph Elizabeth Bow And Her Daughter Govan Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Elizabeth Bow and her daughter from Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. The surname Bow maybe topographical for someone living near a bridge, the word boga in this case having acquired the meaning of an arch, as in the supposed resemblance of the arch to a drawn bow or locational for somebody who lived at a place called Bow, Bowe, or Bough, or at a house which had as its sign a bough from a tree. An early examples of the name recording is that of Richard atte Bowe in the registers known as the Calender of Letter Books of the City of London, England, in the year 1306, Nicholas atte Boughe in the county of Somerset in 1327, and Elizabeth Bowe, christened at St Mary Lothbury, in the city of London in 1597.



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