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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of bellows. See Bellow.
  • John Bellows emigrated from England to MA on the Hopewell in 1635. Benjamin Bellows was one of the founders of Walpole, VT, in the mid 18th century.

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