Barrow Family History
Barrow Name Meaning
habitational name from any of the numerous places
named with Old English bearo, bearu ‘grove’ (dative
bear(o)we, bearuwe), for example in Cheshire,
Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire,
Shropshire, Suffolk, and Somerset, or a topographic name with the same
meaning.topographic name for someone who lived by an ancient
burial mound, Middle English berwe, barwe, or a
habitational name from a place named with this word (Old English
beorg, dative beorge), of which there is one near
Leicester and another in Somerset.habitational name from Barrow
in Furness, Cumbria, which is named with an unattested Celtic word,
barr, here meaning ‘promontory’, + Old Norse ey
‘island’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Barrow
Name Distribution of Barrow Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Barrow families
 103 - 204  35 - 102 |
 1 - 34  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Barrow families
|
933 - 1,863 312 - 932 |
1 - 311 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Barrow families
|
14 - 25 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Barrow census records
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Barrow Family Origin
Barrow Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Barrow
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Barrow Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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