Talk:James Bowron

Family history

• This isn't germane to a Bhamwiki bio, but I thought it was interesting enough to relate here:

"The Bowron family, originally called Bolron, was founded by a Norman man-at-arms who settled on the banks of the river Tees and engaged in the milling business. In 1415, Thomas Bolron was a man-at-arms and William Bolron was an archer with Lord Fitz Hugh at the battle of Agincourt. After the battle, the grant to bear arms developed, and the Bolron miller adopted the sails of his windmill, and as the village on the Tees had then become Boldrun, in perhaps a spirit of punning on the pronunciation, he selected for crest a springing greyhound, a bold runner, with the motto 'Vigilans Agllis et Fldelis.' John Bolron. who changed the spelling of the name to Bowron, lived from 1627 until 1714, and was the first Quaker missionary to come to America. The Bowrons have been a Quaker family from the organization of the Society of Friends in the seventeenth century down to the present."

Owen, Thomas McAdory and Marie Bankhead Owen (1921) History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. 4 volumes. Chicago, Illinois: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. --Dystopos 13:58, 24 January 2010 (PST)