Towne Family History
Towne Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a village, as
opposed to an outlying farm or hamlet, from Middle English toun
(Old English tun, which originally meant ‘fence’ and then
‘enclosure’, although the sense ‘settlement, village’ was already
firmly established in the Old English period) adm.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Towne
Name Distribution of Towne Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Towne families
 17 - 31  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Towne families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Towne census records
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Towne Family Origin
Towne Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Towne Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Towne census records
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Military Service by Towne
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