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The rowell Surname

rowell Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name, a variant of Rothwell (representing the local pronunciation of the place in Northamptonshire).
  2. habitational name from a place in Devon, so named from Old English ruh ‘rough’, ‘overgrown’ + hyll ‘hill’.
  3. from a medieval personal name, a pet form of Rowe 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rowell Families in the US in 1920
Number of rowell families
 92-182
 31-91		 1-30
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Henry Benton Rowell a Native American? CatherineOpper07 0
Elizabeth Betsy Rowell dau of James bn ?1825/22 TerryStrayer 12
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Rowell(s) in Alabama?? Rozana Rowell 5
Jabez James Rowell Cindy Henry 10
Mable Rowell (1927) b. IL, moved to AZ JulieW95 0
Paul (1896) and Samuel (1898) Rowell -- Persia to Chicago, IL JulieW95 0
Obits: Terry Albert Paul Rowell ksookie 2
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