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fowler Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name for a bird-catcher (a common medieval occupation), Middle English fogelere, foulere (Old English fugelere, a derivative of fugol ‘bird’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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fowler Family Facts

Distribution of fowler Families in the US in 1920
Number of fowler families
 525-1048
 176-524		 1-175
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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