Bowen Family History
- Bowen Name Meaning
- English, of Welsh origin: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Owain ‘son of Owain’ (see Owen). Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhacháin ‘descendant of Buadhachán’, a diminutive of Buadhach ‘victorious’ (see Bohan).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,110,377 Historical Documents with Bowen on Ancestry
- 949,316 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 588,233 Census and Voter Lists
- 114,877 Military Records
- 52,327 Immigration Records
- 1,405,624 Member Trees
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Number of Bowen families
 1,267 - 2,532  423 - 1,266 |
 1 - 422  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bowen families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bowen census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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