Dowd Family History
Dowd Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhda
‘descendant of Dubhda’, a byname derived from dubh
‘dark’, ‘black’. The family were chieftains in Sligo and Mayo.English: from the personal name Dowd, a variant of
David.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Dowd
Name Distribution of Dowd Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dowd families
 233 - 463  78 - 232 |
 1 - 77  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dowd families
|
24 - 45 9 - 23 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dowd census records
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Dowd Family Origin
Dowd Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Dowd Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Dowd Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Dowd census records
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Military Service by Dowd
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