Well as someone who since childhood who has had the interesting experience of people constantly either not understanding my name over the phone, or...
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bowes2000
Oct 13, 2010 7:04 pm
Let me try that again, minus the typos...Well as someone who since childhood who has had the interesting experience of people constantly either not...
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Jeane Robinson
jbowes110
Oct 13, 2010 8:47 pm
My mother's maiden name was Bowes. It was pronounced by the family like buttons and bows. How did YOUR family pronounce your name? My mother's maiden name...
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Jeane Robinson
jbowes110
Oct 13, 2010 9:11 pm
I understand now what you mean. A ely Carroll group makes sense. I see now the Bowe/s surname group was just a gateway drug....
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Alfred Neuman
shortroad2pa...
Oct 13, 2010 9:15 pm
My name is Bowes, pronounced as you described, I have been observing this site for some time now, however I never responded, until now. Â I am interested in...
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mhbowes11
Oct 13, 2010 9:50 pm
I admit to getting confused because it seems depending on the source of information about pronouncing old Gaelic words I get different feedback. I am guessing...
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mhbowes11
Oct 13, 2010 9:56 pm
Yes, I specialize in dealing! LOL! The other subgroup that has its own Yahoo group is in a similar situation, where its Yahoo group is focused on a key genetic...
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mhbowes11
Oct 13, 2010 10:12 pm
Welcome to the conversation Dale! I have often run across this surname connected to the Ontario area and wondered about those roots. I have some materials...
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mhbowes11
Oct 13, 2010 10:41 pm
I did a quick check and the facts don't line up. The family I have some information on moved from Wicklow (not Wexford as I previously stated) to Ontario. The...
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Alfred Neuman
shortroad2pa...
Oct 13, 2010 11:56 pm
I am certain about the name David, since he was a Protestant, I assumed he came from Northern Ireland, if that helps. Â Most of the records I have placed them...
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bowes2000
Oct 14, 2010 12:10 am
Well within my family our name has been variously recorded as Bow, Bowes (pronounced as in Bows on a gift)and finally Bowe...
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2Maxwells
the2maxwells
Oct 14, 2010 4:06 pm
The name has always been Bowe in my family and that goes back to 1795. In my family the name has always been pronounced like the archery bow. There was a...
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Diane Bowe
dianebowe2002
Oct 14, 2010 4:12 pm
Interesting -My husband's father was named Roache as a first name -how is that for original -I assume a family name somewhere in there but can't prove it -he...
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Diane Bowe
dianebowe2002
Oct 14, 2010 4:24 pm
...  Interesting -My husband's father was named Roache as a first name -how is that for original -I assume a family name somewhere in there but can't prove...
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mhbowes11
Oct 15, 2010 1:56 am
Hi Dale, I checked with another correspondent whose family descends from Clones, Fermanagh, since the 1600s–settlers from Scotland. He went through his...
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mhbowes11
Oct 15, 2010 2:00 am
My family was always Bowes since emigrating during the potato famine, but they said they were related to a Bowe family who also lived in the farming...
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mhbowes11
Oct 15, 2010 3:37 am
Hi Diane, Except that you also now have further proof that he came from Ireland based on your Bowe/s DNA matches, at least one of them a pretty close match,...
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Jeane Robinson
jbowes110
Oct 15, 2010 6:45 am
Checking 123 123 can you hear me now? ________________________________ From: mhbowes11 <martha.bowes@...> To: bowesgenealogy@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
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Martha H. Bowes
mhbowes11
Oct 15, 2010 3:32 pm
321 321 we can hear you now in threaded mode!...
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mhbowes11
Oct 16, 2010 10:44 pm
Diane, I just found a reference in "Modern Ireland 1600-1972" by RF Foster, p. 13, "[by 1600] Old English families like the Barrys and Roches of Cork had...
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bowes2000
Oct 16, 2010 11:33 pm
An offering to add to the pot, as far as I recall the Roaches arrived in Ireland as part of the Norman-Cambro (Welsh) invasion/colonization, I have an...
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mhbowes11
Oct 17, 2010 12:00 am
You are right about that. I have a map here called "Ireland 1300-1600: Map showing the location of the principal Gaelic septs together with the leading...
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mhbowes11
Oct 17, 2010 12:28 am
1167, Richard fitz Godbert de Roche, first Norman knight to land in Ireland. So says Wikipedia so it must be true ;-)...
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bowes2000
Oct 17, 2010 12:52 pm
That's the feller alright, what a bunch of bully-boys those Normans were, can confirm that Roache is a name found along the Suir Valley in Tipperary, an area...
The cross-post follows this note: We have a bit of a complication in that there may be people in this Yahoo group who are not part of the Ely Carroll DNA...
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mhbowes11
Nov 25, 2010 9:53 pm
I am copying this to a new topic for a new member who sent it directly to me by accident, by replying to her welcome letter after joining this group. I tried...
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Jeane Robinson
jbowes110
Nov 26, 2010 5:07 pm
Hi to our new member, Coincidently I have recently sent out letters to the Bowe and Bowes families of Southern Ireland in an attempt to create a survey of who...
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mhbowes11
Nov 26, 2010 9:56 pm
It's interesting to contemplate how we might record all the data we can get from all the Irish family lines in a way that will most easily help us to find...
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Jeane Robinson
jbowes110
Nov 30, 2010 9:13 pm
Since I now know that we have visitors to this site who haven't joined and don't post, I would like to bring your attention to my research project. If you have...
