Barrow Family History
Barrow Name Meaning
habitational name from any of the numerous places
named with Old English bearo, bearu ‘grove’ (dative
bear(o)we, bearuwe), for example in Cheshire,
Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire,
Shropshire, Suffolk, and Somerset, or a topographic name with the same
meaning.topographic name for someone who lived by an ancient
burial mound, Middle English berwe, barwe, or a
habitational name from a place named with this word (Old English
beorg, dative beorge), of which there is one near
Leicester and another in Somerset.habitational name from Barrow
in Furness, Cumbria, which is named with an unattested Celtic word,
barr, here meaning ‘promontory’, + Old Norse ey
‘island’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Barrow
Name Distribution of Barrow Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Barrow families
 933 - 1,863  312 - 932 |
 1 - 311  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Barrow families
|
14 - 25 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Barrow census records
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Barrow Family Origin
Barrow Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Barrow Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Barrow Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Barrow census records
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Military Service by Barrow
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