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Retained profile for the former
Mowbray One-Name Study

This study is no longer registered with the Guild, but this profile page has been retained at the member's request. Please note that neither officers nor members of the Guild are able to answer any questions about this study.

A study website has been preserved by the Guild: mowbray.one-name.net

About the study

This is the Guild web site for my One-Name Study of MOWBRAY and variants.

Variant names

There have been more than 200 variant spellings of the name, but the major ones are
Moubray (in Scotland); Mowberry (Northants) and Mowbrey (London).

Name origin

The name originates in the Normandy village of Montbray. The story of its arrival in England is explained on my personal web site, with the link given below.

Historical occurrences of the name

Most Mowbray family members will know that the Dukedom of Norfolk was held by Mowbrays for a few generations. This line died out in the time of Richard III.

Distribution of the name

The top 3 counties for Mowbray origins over the years were Durham, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire. Since then the name has spread over the UK and Scotland and is represented in USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Data

The database holds some 10,000 persons from the 1500's to 2000. It has been gleaned from IGI, England and Wales civil registration indexes and many UK and US census records. All the English, Welsh and Scottish census data up to 1901 has been captured.

DNA

We have a Y-chromose DNA project running with FT-DNA. Male bearers of the family name, or one of its variants, are most welcome to join. Use the relevant link below.

Links

The Mowbray website has been preserved by the Guild at mowbray.one-name.net

http://www.mowbray.ddl-web-hosting.com/ This is my personal web-site.

http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Mowbray This is the DNA project web-site.

General Search Results

Occurrences of the surname Mowbray in the Guild Indexes
(Click on the number to view the search results in each index. Indexes marked by * are only accessible by logged in Guild members.)
  • Global Marriages (public)  1008
  • Global Marriages (members)* 1011
  • Inscriptions Index  4
  • Modern Newspaper Index  2
  • Probate Index* 6
  • Datastores  9
  • References to the name Mowbray in the Guild Journal  1

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