Coward Family History
Coward Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a keeper of cattle, Middle English
cowherde, Old English cuhyrde, from cu
‘cow’ + hierde ‘herdsman’. (The surname has nothing to do with
the modern English word coward, which is from Old French
cuard, a pejorative term from coue ‘tail’ (Latin
cauda) with reference to an animal with its tail between its
legs.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
300,303
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Name Distribution of Coward Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Coward families
 436 - 870  146 - 435 |
 1 - 145  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Coward families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Coward census records
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Coward Family Origin
Coward Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Coward Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Coward Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Coward census records
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Military Service by Coward
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