Owens Family History
Owens Name Meaning
Welsh: patronymic from Owen, with English patronymic
-s.Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form by bearers
of the Gaelic surname Mac Eoghain (see McEwen).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Owens
Name Distribution of Owens Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Owens families
 1,064 - 2,125  355 - 1,063 |
 1 - 354  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Owens families
|
166 - 330 56 - 165 |
1 - 55 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Owens census records
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Owens Family Origin
Owens Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Owens Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Owens Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Owens census records
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Military Service by Owens
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