On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 01:15:38 +0100, nestork
wrote:


rbowman;3326307 Wrote:
wrote:
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With the last namr Bowman there is a strong chance your ancestry
also traces back to Ulius "Julius the Farmer" Buman ,who was born
about 1369 in Zimmerberg Switzerland and died in 1425-

And there is a stronger chance that it doesn't. It's not Smith but it is
a
common name that can be the result of the phoenetic spelling of any
number
of European surnames by anglophones and well as the craft name from
Britain.

Exactly. How many Coopers are decended from someone who made wooden
barrels. How many Milners are decended from someone who made hats.

How many Bowmans are decended from someone who was a particularily good
archer. Alternatively, how many Bowmans are decended from someone who
cut wood in the King's forest for making long bows and arrows for the
King's guard. Here in Winnipeg, our newly elected mayor is named Brian
Bowman, so there's a lot of Bowmans kicking around.

Immigration employees at Ellis Island (NYC) were not always good at
reading and writing. Language barriers, etc. Many times they changed
the spelling of surnames on entry documents. What ever they wrote on
paper was what your last name was