Howe Family History
Howe Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a small hill
or a man-made mound or barrow, Middle English how (Old Norse
haugr), or a habitational name from a place named with this
word, such as Howe in Norfolk and North Yorkshire.English:
variant of Hugh.Jewish (American): Americanized form of
one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.Americanized form of
Norwegian Hove.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Howe
Name Distribution of Howe Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Howe families
 906 - 1,810  303 - 905 |
 1 - 302  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Howe families
|
34 - 66 12 - 33 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Howe census records
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Howe Family Origin
Howe Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Howe families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Howe Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Howe families immigrated
to Australia.
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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
Howe Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Howe census records
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Military Service by Howe
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