Mowry Family History
- Mowry Name Meaning
- English: probably a variant of the Anglo-Norman French personal name Mory, a short form of Amaury (see Emery, Morey).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 353,135 Historical Documents with Mowry on Ancestry
- 48,064 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 34,428 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,275 Military Records
- 1,910 Immigration Records
- 261,458 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Mowry 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
Mowry census records
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