Bowes Family History
Bowes Name Meaning
Northern English: habitational name from Bowes (formerly in
North Yorkshire, now in County Durham), or from some other place so
called, the place name being derived from the plural of Old English
boga ‘bow’, here referring to bends in a river (see
Bow).Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Buadhaigh (see Bogue).
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Name Distribution of Bowes Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bowes families
 69 - 136  24 - 68 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bowes families
|
450 - 897 151 - 449 |
1 - 150 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bowes families
|
57 - 112 20 - 56 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bowes Family Origin
Bowes Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Bowes
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Bowes Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bowes census records
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Bowes Civil War Service Records
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