Stowe Family History
- Stowe Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of the numerous places, for example in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, and Suffolk, so called from Old English stow, a word akin to stoc (see Stoke), with the specialized meaning ‘meeting place’, frequently referring to a holy place or church. Places in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire having this origin use the spelling Stowe, but the spelling difference cannot be relied on as an indication of locality of origin. The final -e in part represents a trace of the Old English dative inflection. Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 547,581 Historical Documents with Stowe on Ancestry
- 119,180 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 72,492 Census and Voter Lists
- 14,787 Military Records
- 5,581 Immigration Records
- 335,541 Member Trees
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Number of Stowe families
 82 - 161  28 - 81 |
 1 - 27  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Stowe families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Stowe 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
Stowe census records
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