Bowlby Family History
- Bowlby Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from Boulby in North Yorkshire or Bulby in Lincolnshire, both of which are named with the Old Norse byname Boli (from boli ‘bull’) + Old Norse býr ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 92,564 Historical Documents with Bowlby on Ancestry
- 21,062 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 14,511 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,266 Military Records
- 1,531 Immigration Records
- 52,194 Member Trees
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Number of Bowlby families
 51 - 99  18 - 50 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bowlby families
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45 - 88 16 - 44 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bowlby census records
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Bowlby census records
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