Each of the laminae can be seen to be composed of two, three, or four layers of ligneous tubes; but supposing each ring the growth of one year, and the semidiameter of a mowana of one hundred feet in circumference about seventeen feet, if the central point were in the centre of the tree, then its age would lack some centuries of being as old as the ...
Brodie can be a given name or a surname. Of Scottish origin, and a location in Moray, Scotland, its meaning is uncertain; it is not clear if Brodie, as a word, has its origins in the Gaelic or Pictish languages.In 2012 this name was the 53rd most popular boys' name in Scotland.ome of the suggestions that have been advanced as to the meaning of the name Brodie are: 1  Gaelic for a little ridge; a brow, or a precipice;  2 ditch or mire, from the old Irish word broth;  3 muddy place, from the Gaelic word brothach;
Bowen Name Meaning. English, of Welsh origin: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Owain âson of Owainâ (see Owen).Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic O Ã³ âbuadhachain buadhachÃ¡in Descendantâ, of buadhachan buadhachÃ¡n A âdiminutiveâ (of Buadhach). Victorious: See bohan Source Dictionary Of Â©american, Family Names 2013. oxford university pressou can find out when most of the Bowen families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era. Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.