Last name: BOWYER
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BOWYER : This last name is indexed 49,798 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BOWYER : English: occupational name for a maker or seller of bows or an archer from Middle English bowyere an agent derivative of Old English boga ‘bow’. Compare Bowman.
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