Bowley Family History
- Bowley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from either of two places called Bowley, near Leominster in Herefordshire and in Devon. The first is named with Old English bula ‘bull’, perhaps a byname (see Bull) + leah ‘woodland clearing’. The second is from Old English boga ‘bow’, ‘river bend’ + leah.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 197,328 Historical Documents with Bowley on Ancestry
- 72,292 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 51,900 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,532 Military Records
- 3,729 Immigration Records
- 63,875 Member Trees
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Number of Bowley families
 198 - 394  67 - 197 |
 1 - 66  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bowley families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bowley 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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