When William Powell was born on 4 April 1808, in Glascoed, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, William Powell, was 25 and his mother, Mary Anne Morgan, was 25. He died before 1811.
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Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Hywel ‘son of Hywel’, a personal name meaning ‘eminent’ (see Howell ).
Irish: mainly of Welsh origin as in 1 above, but sometimes a surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Phóil ‘son of the servant of Saint Paul’ (see Guilfoyle ).
English: variant of Paul or Poole .
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