Family name also spelled BOWDEN.
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In 1855 Benjamin Bowden was present at the marriage of elder sister Elizabeth Jane Bowden to John Bawden in Penponds, Camborne, Cornwall.
In 1861 Benjamin Bawden, aged 29, born in Camborne Cornwall, unmarried, shop asistant, was iwith his widowed mother n Baripper, Camborne.
Quite likely emigrated to North America.