Bowland Family History
- Bowland Name Meaning
- Variant spelling of Boland 1 and 2. Altered spelling of Dutch Bouwland, a topographic name for someone who lived by land that was under cultivation.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 64,750 Historical Documents with Bowland on Ancestry
- 17,154 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,299 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,818 Military Records
- 1,363 Immigration Records
- 31,116 Member Trees
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Number of Bowland families
 46 - 89  16 - 45 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bowland families
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bowland 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 1881 UK Census Data
Bowland census records
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