Cowley Family History
- Cowley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of the various places called Cowley. One in Gloucestershire is named with Old English cu ‘cow’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’; two in Derbyshire have Old English col ‘(char)coal’ as the first element; and one near London has it from Old English cofa ‘shelter’, ‘bay’ (see Cove) or the personal name Cofa. The largest group, however, with examples in Buckinghamshire, Devon, Oxfordshire, and Staffordshire, were apparently named as ‘the wood or clearing of Cufa’; however, in view of the number of places named with this element, it is possible that it conceals a topographical term as well as a personal name. Irish: reduced form of Macaulay (see McCauley).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 658,661 Historical Documents with Cowley on Ancestry
- 267,560 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 153,392 Census and Voter Lists
- 14,739 Military Records
- 16,452 Immigration Records
- 206,518 Member Trees
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Number of Cowley families
 438 - 874  147 - 437 |
 1 - 146  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cowley families
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18 - 33 7 - 17 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cowley 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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