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bowring Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name for someone who dwelt in a small cottage, from an unattested Old English word buring, a derivative of bur ‘bower’, ‘cottage’ (see Bower).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bowring Families in the US in 1920
Number of bowring families
 6-9
 3-5		 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 23 - Messages: 140
ThreadAuthorReplies
Calling all Bowring's Leonard Bowring 50
Bowering Tree Bill Ainsworth 7
Conard mrsjeys 0
Bowring in Nebraska or Idaho mrsjeys 0
The Bowring Link LucindaFouch20 9
William, b.c. 1779 of Kentisbeer, m. 1807 Harriett Powell mawentling 0
Charles Bowring - Rachell Watts Pershing 27
Bowrings in Derby roger_bowring 1
Bowring - Cundliffe - Condry rawleigh Condra Fjeld 0
Bowring Edward m. E velyn Cundliffe 1600s late rawleighfjeld1 1
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