Bowie Family History
Bowie Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: nickname from Gaelic buidhe ‘yellow’,
‘fair-haired’, or possibly an Anglicized form of 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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bowie
Name Distribution of Bowie Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bowie families
 72 - 141  25 - 71 |
 1 - 24  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bowie families
|
324 - 646 109 - 323 |
1 - 108 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bowie census records
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Bowie Family Origin
Bowie Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bowie Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Bowie Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bowie census records
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Military Service by Bowie
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