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gow Name Meaning and History

Scottish: occupational name from Gaelic gobha ‘smith’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the gow family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of gow Families in the US in 1920
Number of gow families
 28-53
 10-27
 1-9
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 108 - Messages: 285
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Neil Gow Janet Johnson 13
Neil Gow Janet 17
john gow married mary dow susancarruthers53 0
Ann Gow & Alexander Wilson in Crieff douglaswilson_1 0
GOW Family- Scotland>PEI>Northern CA rmc373 4
Gow Family heumann 17
Catherine Gow Hector Munro from Crieff margaret_david57 3
Archibald Gow - Canada Kelly Fowler (nee Gow) 1
Gow family from Lancashire ENGLAND depass 0
Yung GOW Arrested 1906 PA Obits101 0
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