Cowell Family History
Cowell Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places in Lancashire and
Gloucestershire called Cowhill, from Old English cu ‘cow’ +
hyll ‘hill’.possibly also an Americanized form of
Polish, Jewish, and Sorbian Kowal.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cowell Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cowell families
 68 - 133  23 - 67 |
 1 - 22  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cowell families
|
687 - 1,372 230 - 686 |
1 - 229 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cowell families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cowell census records
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Cowell Family Origin
Cowell Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Cowell
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Cowell Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Cowell census records
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Cowell Civil War Service Records
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