Rowe Family History
Rowe Name Meaning
topographic name for someone who lived by a hedgerow
or in a row of houses built next to one another, from Middle English
row (northern Middle English raw, from Old English
raw).from the medieval personal name Row,
a variant of Rou(l) (see Rollo, Rolf) or a short
form of Rowland.English name adopted by bearers of French
Baillargeon.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Rowe
Name Distribution of Rowe Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rowe families
 417 - 831  140 - 416 |
 1 - 139  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Rowe families
|
1,701 - 3,400 568 - 1,700 |
1 - 567 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rowe families
|
29 - 56 10 - 28 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rowe census records
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Rowe Family Origin
Rowe Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Rowe
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Rowe Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Rowe census records
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