The surname ‘Bowling’ is of English origin. It is derived from the local habitation ‘of Bowling’, name for someone who lived at a chapelry so called near Bradford, in the county of yorkshire, England. Public and Civil registry archive’s confirm that the surname ‘Bowling’ and or it’s variant’s, date as far back as the sixteenth century were a ‘Tristram Bollying’, from Bradford, Yorkshire, England, is recorded fifteen hundred and eighty. The exact period of settlement in North America has not been definitely determined but data extracted from Historical archive’s confirm that one of the first forefathers to bring this name to America was a certain ‘john Bowling’, from the city of London, England, a footman by trade, He emigrated to North America in seventeen hundred and seventy-five, aged eighteen, sailing from the Port of London aboard the ship named the ‘Maryland Planter’ on the sixth of February, arriving in Maryland on…