Goewey Family History
- Goewey Name Meaning
- Dutch: Americanized spelling of Goewie, for which Debrabandere offers various explanations, including the following: variant of Degouy, a habitational name for someone from any of several minor places in northern France named Gouy. from the personal name Gauvain, French form of a Celtic name found in English as Gawain. from a Germanic personal name, a compound of god, got ‘god’ + hari, heri ‘army’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 16,995 Historical Documents with Goewey on Ancestry
- 4,645 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,707 Census and Voter Lists
- 863 Military Records
- 190 Immigration Records
- 8,590 Member Trees
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Number of Goewey families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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