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rowley Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the various places, in Devon, County Durham, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, so named from Old English ruh ‘rough’, ‘overgrown’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.

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

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

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Distribution of rowley Families in the US in 1920
Number of rowley families
 171-340
 58-170		 1-57
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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