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bower Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: occupational name for a bow maker, Older Scots bowar, equivalent to English Bowyer.
  2. English and Scottish: from Middle English bur, bour ‘bower’, ‘cottage’, ‘inner room’ (Old English bur), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in a small cottage, an occupational name for a house servant who attended his master in his private quarters (see Bowerman), or a habitational name from any of various places, for example in Essex, named Bower or Bowers from this word.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The bower name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the bower family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of bower Families in the US in 1920
Number of bower families
 460-917
 154-459		 1-153
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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