Sowerby Family History
Sowerby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places in northern
England named with the Old Norse elements saurr ‘mud’,
‘excrement’ + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sowerby
Name Distribution of Sowerby Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sowerby families
 227 - 451  76 - 226 |
 1 - 75  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sowerby families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sowerby census records
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Sowerby Family Origin
Sowerby Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Sowerby Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Sowerby Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Sowerby census records
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Military Service by Sowerby
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