Surname Definition: See Family Crest below.

Origins: Lancashire, England.

Alternate Spellings: BOWLER, BOALER, BOLER, BOULARD, and others.

Surnames sharing the Rootsweb Soundex Code: BAYLOR, BEELER, BEHELER, BEHLER, BELLAR, BELLER, BLAIR, BOLAR, BOLLIER, BOULWARE, BOWLER, BUEHLER, BULLER, BYLER.

Other Resources

• BOWLER Family Crest
• BOWLER Family Genealogy Forum
• RootsWeb's World Connect Project
• Rootsweb Messageboards
• TribalPages
• GeneaNet
• GenCircles
• GenesReunited $
• FamilySearch - The largest collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world
• Answers.com – The world’s greatest encyclodictionalmanacapedia
• DeadFred – Genealogy photo archive
• AncientFaces – Family Treasures
• Linkpendium
• FamilyTreeDNA
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• RootsChat – Genealogy, Family History, Local History, Messaging Forum and more
• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• National Archives of Australia
• State Records Office, New South Wales, Australia
• Public Record Office, Victoria, Australia
• Archives of New Zealand
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• Auckland City Libraries – family history resources, New Zealand