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bowker Name Meaning and History

English (chiefly Manchester): occupational name for someone whose job was to steep cotton or linen in lye (a strong alkali) to cleanse it, from an agent derivative of Middle English bouken ‘to wash’ (from Middle Dutch buken).

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

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

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Distribution of bowker Families in the US in 1920
Number of bowker families
 65-127
 22-64		 1-21
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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