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Bowring

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who dwelt in a small cottage, from an unattested Old English word būring, a derivative of būr ‘bower’, ‘cottage’ (see Bower).

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