Callow Family History
Callow Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called
Callow, including one in Herefordshire which is named with Old English
calu ‘bare’ in the sense ‘bare hill’, Callow near Hathersage
and Callow near Wirksworth, both in Derbyshire, which are named with
Old English cald ‘cold’ + hlaw ‘hill’, and Calow near
Chesterfield, also in Derbyshire, which is named with Old English
calu ‘bare’ + halh ‘nook of land’.English: nickname
for a bald man, from Middle English calue, calewe ‘bald’
(Old English calu).Manx: Anglicized form of Gaelic
Mac Caolaidhe, a patronymic from the personal name
Caoladhe, a derivative of caol ‘slender’, ‘comely’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Callow
Name Distribution of Callow Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Callow families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Callow families
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191 - 380 64 - 190 |
1 - 63 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Callow families
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Callow Family Origin
Callow Immigration Information
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Callow Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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