Clow Family History
Clow Name Meaning
English: variant of Clough.English: metonymic
occupational name for a nailer, from Old French clou
‘nail’. Compare Clower.Possibly an Americanized spelling
of German Klau, a habitational name for someone from Klau near
Aachen or Clauen in Lower Saxony, or Glau, a nickname for an
astute person, from Old High German, Low German glou,
glau ‘circumspect’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Clow
Name Distribution of Clow Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Clow families
 45 - 87  16 - 44 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Clow families
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90 - 177 31 - 89 |
1 - 30 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Clow families
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28 - 54 10 - 27 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Clow Family Origin
Clow Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Clow
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Clow Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Clow census records
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Clow Civil War Service Records
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