Kawano Family History
- Kawano Name Meaning
- Japanese: ‘river field’; mostly found in western Japan, the island of Shikoku, and the Ryukyu Islands. Written two ways, of which one can also be pronounced Kono.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 8,312 Historical Documents with Kawano on Ancestry
- 2,241 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,569 Census and Voter Lists
- 479 Military Records
- 3,699 Immigration Records
- 324 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kawano census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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