Bowler Family History
- Bowler Name Meaning
- English (chiefly Nottinghamshire): from Middle English boller (from Old English bolla ‘bowl’, ‘drinking vessel’ + the agent suffix -er), an occupational name for a maker or seller of bowls. Medieval bowls were made of wood as well as of earthenware.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 474,734 Historical Documents with Bowler on Ancestry
- 183,122 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 124,867 Census and Voter Lists
- 12,728 Military Records
- 10,721 Immigration Records
- 143,296 Member Trees
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Number of Bowler families
 273 - 543  92 - 272 |
 1 - 91  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bowler families
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12 - 21 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bowler census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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