Ovens Family History
Ovens Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the plural of Middle English
oven ‘oven’, ‘furnace’ (for lime, iron, charcoal, etc.), hence
a topographic name or occupational name for someone who lived near or
worked at an oven or furnace. According to MacLysaght this surname is
found also in County Fermanagh in Ireland.North German: patronymic from the Frisian personal name
Ove.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Ovens Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ovens families
 63 - 123  22 - 62 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ovens families
|
74 - 146 25 - 73 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ovens census records
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Ovens Family Origin
Ovens Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Ovens Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Ovens Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Ovens census records
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Military Service by Ovens
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