Bower Family History
Bower Name Meaning
Scottish: occupational name for a bow maker, Older Scots
bowar, equivalent to English Bowyer.English
and Scottish: from Middle English bur, bour ‘bower’,
‘cottage’, ‘inner room’ (Old English bur), hence a
topographic name for someone who lived in a small cottage, an
occupational name for a house servant who attended his master in his
private quarters (see Bowerman), or a habitational name from
any of various places, for example in Essex, named Bower or Bowers
from this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bower
Name Distribution of Bower Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bower families
 460 - 917  154 - 459 |
 1 - 153  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bower families
|
1,097 - 2,191 366 - 1,096 |
1 - 365 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bower families
|
37 - 72 13 - 36 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bower Family Origin
Bower Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Bower
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Bower Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Bower Civil War Service Records
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