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bowyer Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name for a maker or seller of bows (see Bow), as opposed to an archer. Compare Bowman.

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

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Distribution of bowyer Families in the US in 1920
Number of bowyer families
 39-75
 14-38		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 122 - Messages: 398
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Suffolk, England Bowyers wildpine12 6
Abraham BOWYER m. Esther MARKES, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England kohlerbj 2
George Henry Bowyer - Cook County, Illinois donnabartlett55 1
Bowyer Information for you all (hereford bowyers)UK Lindsey Nieuwhof 5
Bowyers in Hereford England. Lindsey Nieuwhof (Bowyer) 10
Re: Interested parties Caroline Atherton 3
bowyer ancestry kaybowyer 7
bowyers - wokingham, cornwall, england tarynsummer 1
Bowyer Thomas, Membury, Devon kermode1 2
BOWYER from England befm30 31
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