Dowson Family History
- Dowson Name Meaning
- patronymic from Dow, a variant of Daw. metronymic from a medieval female personal name (see Duce).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 187,617 Historical Documents with Dowson on Ancestry
- 66,686 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 49,249 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,680 Military Records
- 4,372 Immigration Records
- 64,630 Member Trees
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Number of Dowson families
 388 - 773  130 - 387 |
 1 - 129  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dowson families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Dowson census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Dowson families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Dowson families immigrated to Canada. 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.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Dowson census records
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