Cowell Family History
Cowell Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places in Lancashire and
Gloucestershire called Cowhill, from Old English cu ‘cow’ +
hyll ‘hill’.possibly also an Americanized form of
Polish, Jewish, and Sorbian Kowal.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cowell
Name Distribution of Cowell Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cowell families
 687 - 1,372  230 - 686 |
 1 - 229  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cowell families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cowell census records
You can see how Cowell families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
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Cowell Family Origin
Cowell Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Cowell families immigrated
to the United States.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cowell Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Cowell families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Cowell Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cowell census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Cowell ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Cowell
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