Bour Family History
Bour Name Meaning
Scottish: status name for someone who lived in a small cottage,
from Older Scots bur ‘bower’, ‘cottage’. See also
Bower.French (Normandy): nickname from Old Norman French
bourc ‘bastard’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Bour Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bour families
 11 - 19  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bour families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bour families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bour Family Origin
Bour Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Bour
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Bour Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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