QUERY1851
Blowen, Origin of the Name
By BLOWEN.
You have fallen into a very general error in spelling my name (pp. 71. 76.) with the terminal r, "Blower," instead of "Blowen." Perhaps some one of your genealogical readers can inform me of the origin and descendants of the family with this scarce name, thus spelt, "Blowen." Are we a branch of the Blowers (as you appear to think we must be), that useful family of alarmists, whose services in early times were so necessary? or are we the descendants of the Flanders "Boleyns," Anglicanized "Bloyen?" Query, Did Anna Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII., ever spell her name so? I need not to be reminded th…
Topics: Genealogy, Historical Customs, Name Origin