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Gow Family History

Gow Name Meaning
Scottish: occupational name from Gaelic gobha ‘smith’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

138,997 Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gow
50,623 Census and Voter Lists
11,682 Immigration Records
23,822 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
48,265 Member Family Trees
4,605 Military Records

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Name Distribution of Gow Families

  • Number of Gow families
     28 - 53
     10 - 27
     1 - 9
     
    from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
  • Number of Gow families
     64 - 125
     22 - 63
     1 - 21
     
    from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
  • Number of Gow families
     191 - 379
     64 - 190
     1 - 63
     
    from the 1891 Scotland Census Data

Gow census records

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Gow Family Origin

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Gow Immigration Information

from the New York Passenger Lists

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You can find out when most of the Gow families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.

Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.

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Average Life Expectancy for Gow

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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family.

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Gow Family Occupations

from 1880 Federal Census Data

Gow census records

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Gow Civil War Service Records

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