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The dower Surname

dower Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a baker, doghere, from an agent derivative of Middle English dogh ‘dough’.
  2. Probably an Americanized spelling of German Dauer.

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

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Distribution of dower Families in the US in 1920
Number of dower families
 37-71
 13-36		 1-12
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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