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cowgill Name Meaning and History

English (mainly Lancashire): habitational name from any of several places named Cowgill or Cow Gill, for example in Cumbria, Yorkshire, and Lancashire; all are named with Old Norse gil ‘narrow valley’, ‘ravine’ with various first elements including Old English cu ‘cow’ and Old English col ‘(char)coal’.

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

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

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Distribution of cowgill Families in the US in 1920
Number of cowgill families
 46-89
 16-45		 1-15
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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