Bowie Family History
Bowie Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: nickname from Gaelic buidhe ‘yellow’,
‘fair-haired’, or possibly an Anglicized form of Ó Buadhaigh
(see Bogue).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bowie
Name Distribution of Bowie Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bowie families
 64 - 125  22 - 63 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bowie families
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72 - 141 25 - 71 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bowie families
|
324 - 646 109 - 323 |
1 - 108 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bowie Family Origin
Bowie Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Bowie
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Bowie Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Bowie Civil War Service Records
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