Rowley Family History
Rowley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the various places, in
Devon, County Durham, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, so named from Old
English ruh ‘rough’, ‘overgrown’ + leah ‘wood’,
‘clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Rowley
Name Distribution of Rowley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rowley families
 1,098 - 2,194  367 - 1,097 |
 1 - 366  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rowley families
|
22 - 42 8 - 21 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rowley census records
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Rowley Family Origin
Rowley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Rowley Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Rowley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Rowley census records
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Military Service by Rowley
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