Bower Family History
- Bower Name Meaning
- Scottish: occupational name for a bow maker, Older Scots bowar, equivalent to English Bowyer. English and Scottish: from Middle English bur, bour ‘bower’, ‘cottage’, ‘inner room’ (Old English bur), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in a small cottage, an occupational name for a house servant who attended his master in his private quarters (see Bowerman), or a habitational name from any of various places, for example in Essex, named Bower or Bowers from this word.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,181,019 Historical Documents with Bower on Ancestry
- 408,031 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 283,733 Census and Voter Lists
- 38,321 Military Records
- 27,475 Immigration Records
- 423,459 Member Trees
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Number of Bower families
 1,097 - 2,191  366 - 1,096 |
 1 - 365  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bower families
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37 - 72 13 - 36 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bower 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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