When Ann Gower was born about 1709, in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, John Gower, was 26 and her mother, Esther Greene, was 20. She married William Thrift about 1724, in Richmond County, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. She died about 1775, in Richmond County, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 68.
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English (of Norman origin): habitational name for someone from Gohiere, the Old French form of what is now known as Goelle, the country north of Paris.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Anglo-Norman French Goier, Joier, denoting a man from any of several places in Normandy and Picardy called Gouy, Joué, or Jouy (derived from the Latin personal name Gaudius, Old French Goi, Joi + -acum ‘joy’).
English (of Norman origin): from a Norman personal name, Go(h)ier, ancient Germanic Godehar, cognate with the Old English name mentioned at Gooder .
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