Bau Family History
Bau Name Meaning
German: of uncertain origin; probably from Old High German
buan ‘to live at a place’, or an occupational name from
Middle High German bu, bou ‘cultivation’ or perhaps
from a short form of compounds with this element, such as
Bauhofer, Baumann.French: of uncertain
origin. Perhaps a variant of Beau meaning ‘handsome’, though it
has also been suggested that it may derive from an obsolete personal
name of Germanic origin.Chinese : variant of
Bao 1.Chinese : variant of Bao 2.Chinese : variant of Bao 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bau
Name Distribution of Bau Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bau families
 3 - 2  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bau census records
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Bau Family Origin
Bau Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bau Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bau census records
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Military Service by Bau
Message Board about Bau
5 Threads, 46
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Bau.
Threads: 5 - Messages: 46
| Thread | Author | Replies | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bau's in Germany |  | 1 | |
| BASILIO BAU | | medesi1 | 10 |
| Is there anyBAUdy out there ? | | 30 | |
| Bau family | | edith_bau | 0 |
| Johann Bau Catharina Meier | | JanBau44 | 0 |
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