Dowie Family History
- Dowie Name Meaning
- Scottish and northern Irish: variant of Duffy. Scottish: probably a reduced form of MacIldowie, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Dhuibh ‘son of the black lad’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 68,724 Historical Documents with Dowie on Ancestry
- 21,524 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 22,695 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,723 Military Records
- 3,059 Immigration Records
- 19,723 Member Trees
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Number of Dowie families
 42 - 81  15 - 41 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dowie families
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140 - 278 47 - 139 |
1 - 46 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dowie 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
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