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Where did the Irish Dowd family come from? What is the Irish Dowd family crest and coat of arms? When did the Dowd family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Dowd family history?
The original Gaelic form of Dowd was O Dubhda. The first portion of the name comes from the word dubh, which means black, while the second portion is probably an obsolete Irish personal name.
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Names from the Middle Ages demonstrate many spelling variations. This is because the recording scribe or church official often decided as to how a person's name was spelt and in what language. Research into the name Dowd revealed many variations, including Dowd, Duddy, Doody, O'Dowd, Dowdy, Dowdie, Doudy, Doudie, Doudd, Doodie and many more.First found in County Mayo, where they held a family seat from very ancient times. The family can be traced back to the ancient King Niall of the Nine Hostages, who in turn could be traced back to the Heremon Kings.
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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Dowd research. Another 365 words(26 lines of text) covering the years 1354, 1579, 1813, and 1891 are included under the topic Early Dowd History in all our PDF Extended History products.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Dowd. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
To escape the religious and political discrimination they experienced primarily at the hands of the English, thousands of Irish left their homeland in the 19th century. These migrants typically settled in communities throughout the East Coast of North America, but also joined the wagon trains moving out to the Midwest. Ironically, when the American War of Independence began, many Irish settlers took the side of England, and at the war's conclusion moved north to Canada. These United Empire Loyalists, were granted land along the St. Lawrence River and the Niagara Peninsula. Other Irish immigrants settled in Newfoundland, the Ottawa Valley, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The greatest influx of Irish immigrants, however, came to North America during the Great Potato Famine of the late 1840s. Thousands left Ireland at this time for North America and Australia. Many of those numbers, however, did not live through the long sea passage. These Irish settlers to North America were immediately put to work building railroads, coal mines, bridges, and canals. Irish settlers made an inestimable contribution to the building of the New World. Early North American immigration records have revealed a number of people bearing the Irish name Dowd or a variant listed above, including:
Dowd Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Henry Dowd, who landed in Connecticut in 1639
- Rich Dowd, who landed in Virginia in 1664
- James Dowd, who arrived in Maryland in 1667
Dowd Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Michael Dowd, who arrived in Philadelphia, Pa in 1746
Dowd Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Theophilus Dowd, aged 47, arrived in New York in 1812
- Mary Dowd, aged 20, arrived in New York, NY in 1848
- Daniel Dowd, who arrived in New Orleans, La in 1852
- M Dowd, who landed in San Francisco, Cal in 1855
- Patrick Dowd, who landed in Mobile, Ala in 1858
Dowd Settlers in the United States in the 20th Century
- John Dowd, who arrived in Arkansas in 1903
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