Cowell Family History
- Cowell Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from places in Lancashire and Gloucestershire called Cowhill, from Old English cu ‘cow’ + hyll ‘hill’. possibly also an Americanized form of Polish, Jewish, and Sorbian Kowal.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 642,126 Historical Documents with Cowell on Ancestry
- 206,041 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 139,940 Census and Voter Lists
- 13,106 Military Records
- 16,383 Immigration Records
- 266,656 Member Trees
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Number of Cowell families
 687 - 1,372  230 - 686 |
 1 - 229  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Cowell census records
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- England (164)
- Ireland (66)
- Great Britain (36)
- Scotland (7)
- Italy (2)
- Shropshire,United States of America (2)
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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