In a message dated 2/20/99 1:50:20 PM Mountain Standard Time, lace@tsixroads.com writes: This is what I've gathered from my line. Other Bowlings and Bolings and Bolins may differ.... << What does the name BOWLING mean? >> The Boulin, Bowling, Bouldin name means to tip or brew...as in brew beer. <<What year the first BOWLING came to America?>> Thomas BOULDIN b. 13 Aug 1579, Warwickshire, England, (son of Thomas BOULDING and Elinor ASTON) m. BEFORE 1610, in England, Mary UNKNOWN, US Immigration: 1610, Near or in Jamestown Colony. Thomas died 22 Sep 1655, US Immigration: 1610, Near or in Jamestown Colony Virginia. Arrived in 1610 aboard the "Swann". Source: Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol VII, pp 27-29. Thomas Bouldin III and his wife Mary were the first Bouldin to touch American soil. They sailed for the new land on the sailing vessel "Swan" and arrived in Virginia in 1610. He was thirty years of age. He landed some where near, or in, the Jamestown Colony. The next we hear from him, he has obtained a land grant some miles down the James River, from Jamestown. It is worthy to note that the county between Jamestown and Elizabeth City, County, where he finally settled, was named Warwick as he was from Warwick, England. Within ten years after his arrival, the coast of the James River in this section was well occupied by farmers. Just fourteen years after he landed, he received a land grant from the Virginia Council. It was located one and one-half miles up the Southhampton River in Elizabeth City County, Virginia. This grant was registered January 20, 1624, in Patent Bok No. 1, Part 1, page 43, in General Land Office in the Capitol, Richmond, Virginia. "Virginia Land Office (Patents and Grants) to Toby Smith, 650 acres in Warwick County, Virginia, called Hunrperstow, upon the head of Back River, called Smith's Ford, adjacent Thomas Faulkner and Thomas Boulding. Granted to said Toby Smith, 14 Feb 1640." The first settlers had come in 1607 and had built and called their settlement Jamestown. By spring of 1610 their number had shrunk to 40 men. No women at that time. They were prepared to return to England when met by these second three shiploads and persuaded to turn back. Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666, p.39 Boulding, Thomas. 1638, by John Jackson and Eliza Kingswill, James City Co. Baulke, Wm., 1639, by Tho. Boulding, Elizabeth City Co. Clement, Robert, 1638, by Thomas Boulding, Elizabeth City Co. Clements, Robert, 1639, by Tho. Boulding, Elizabeth City Co. Dale, Nicholas, 1638, by Thomas Boulding, Elizabeth City Co. Davis, Robert, 1639, by Tho. Boulding, Elizabeth City Co. Davis, John, 1638, by Thomas Boulding, Elizabeth City Co. Dayes, John, 1639, by Tho. Boulding, Elizabeth City Co. Dobson, Edward, 1638, by Thomas Boulding, Elizabeth City Co. Gates, Mathew, 1639, by Tho. Boulding, Elizabeth City Co. Hitchcox, John, 1639, by Tho. Boulding, Elizabeth City Co. Slater, Leonard, 1639, by Tho. Boulding, Elizabeth City Co. <<What country the BOWLING's came from?>> England <<Where the first BOWLING'S landed?>> See above >>