Bowker Family History
Bowker Name Meaning
English (chiefly Manchester): occupational name for someone whose
job was to steep cotton or linen in lye (a strong alkali) to cleanse
it, from an agent derivative of Middle English bouken ‘to wash’
(from Middle Dutch buken).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bowker
Name Distribution of Bowker Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bowker families
 65 - 127  22 - 64 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bowker families
|
828 - 1,653 277 - 827 |
1 - 276 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bowker families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bowker census records
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Bowker Family Origin
Bowker Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Bowker
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Bowker Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bowker census records
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Bowker Civil War Service Records
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