Bowes Family History
Bowes Name Meaning
Northern English: habitational name from Bowes (formerly in
North Yorkshire, now in County Durham), or from some other place so
called, the place name being derived from the plural of Old English
boga ‘bow’, here referring to bends in a river (see
Bow).Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Buadhaigh (see Bogue).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bowes
Name Distribution of Bowes Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bowes families
 450 - 897  151 - 449 |
 1 - 150  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bowes families
|
57 - 112 20 - 56 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bowes census records
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Bowes Family Origin
Bowes Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bowes Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Bowes families immigrated
to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Bowes Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bowes census records
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Military Service by Bowes
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