Brief Life History of Muriel Dorothy
When Muriel Dorothy Trowell was born on 31 July 1893, in Wellington, New Zealand, her father, Thomas Trowell, was 28 and her mother, Kate Wheeler, was 33. She married Evan Matthew Richards in 1916, in Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Marylebone, London, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1939. She died in 1979, at the age of 86.
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- Dorothy Trowell in household of Thomas Trowell, "England and Wales Census, 1911"
- Legacy NFS Source: Muriel Dorothy Trowell - Church record: birth-name: Muriel Dorothy Trowell
- Muriel D Trowell, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
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1894 · Tower Bridge Completed
Tower Bridge was completed in 1894. It is built across the Thames and is a suspension bridge. It has gothic towers on either side of it and is sometimes confused with the London Bridge. It is also the oldest bridge in London.
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1918
WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name, principally from Trowell in Nottinghamshire, named in Old English with trēow ‘tree’ + wella ‘well, spring, stream’. It may occasionally come from one or more places similarly named, including Trowell in Chipstable (Somerset).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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