Bowman Meanings.Mark Antony Lower in his 1860 bookPatronymica Britannicasaid that Bowman was “a common name on the English border under the Percys and derived from their weapon, the long bow.”However, another source has it that this name referred to a person who untangled wool with a bow...
Name - Surnames, Origins, Meanings: Family names came into use in the later Middle Ages (beginning roughly in the 11th century); the process was completed by the end of the 16th century. The use of family names seems to have originated in aristocratic fa