Rowe Family History
- Rowe Name Meaning
- topographic name for someone who lived by a hedgerow or in a row of houses built next to one another, from Middle English row (northern Middle English raw, from Old English raw). from the medieval personal name Row, a variant of Rou(l) (see Rollo, Rolf) or a short form of Rowland. English name adopted by bearers of French Baillargeon.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,210,194 Historical Documents with Rowe on Ancestry
- 1,089,685 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 720,747 Census and Voter Lists
- 105,415 Military Records
- 76,894 Immigration Records
- 1,217,453 Member Trees
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Number of Rowe families
 1,701 - 3,400  568 - 1,700 |
 1 - 567  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rowe families
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29 - 56 10 - 28 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rowe 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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