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bowditch Name Meaning and History

English: probably a habitational name from a place in Devon named Bowditch, from the Old English phrase bufan dice ‘above the ditch’.

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Distribution of bowditch Families in the US in 1920
Number of bowditch families
 23-44
 8-22		 1-7
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Bowditch History Audrey Jones 12
Bowditches-Bowdishes of the world unite! mccdonald1 0
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Joel Bowditch's parents home county Sue Habib 8
Sutton Somerset Anthony Bowditch 1
Bowditches in Hawkchurch,Dorset. sarahblatchford99 0
Another Bowditch Karen Bowditch 16
BOWDITCH of DORSET greems182 2
Bowdidge in Wooton Fitzpaine raholloway148 0
Bowditch-Bowdish - megsgeneo 0
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