Cowens Family History
- Cowens Name Meaning
- Scottish and northeastern English: variant spelling of Scottish Cowans.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 22,443 Historical Documents with Cowens on Ancestry
- 9,335 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,771 Census and Voter Lists
- 611 Military Records
- 295 Immigration Records
- 6,431 Member Trees
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Number of Cowens families
 45 - 87  16 - 44 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cowens families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cowens census records
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Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Cowens families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Cowens families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cowens census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Cowens ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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