Mowbray Family History
Mowbray Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Montbrai in La
Manche, France, named in Old French as ‘mud hill’, from Old French
mont ‘hill’ (see Mont 1) + brai ‘mud’, ‘slime’
(of Gaulish origin).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mowbray
Name Distribution of Mowbray Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mowbray families
 161 - 319  54 - 160 |
 1 - 53  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mowbray families
|
33 - 64 12 - 32 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mowbray census records
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Mowbray Family Origin
Mowbray Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Mowbray Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Mowbray Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Mowbray census records
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Military Service by Mowbray
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