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bowersox Name Meaning and History

Americanized spelling of German Bauersachs, a name indicating descent from Hans Bauer, nicknamed Sachs ‘the Saxon’, a forester who lived in Judenbach, Franconia, c.1555. An alternative derivation is from Bauerochs, literally ‘farmer ox’, a nickname or byname for the farmer who kept the breeding bull in a community.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bowersox Families in the US in 1920
Number of bowersox families
 82-162
 28-81		 1-27
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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