When William Pleasant Howell was born in 1792, in Goose Creek, Bedford, Virginia, United States, his father, David Howell Sr, was 43 and his mother, Rebecca Dixon, was 38. He married Frances Cole Wood on 20 December 1807, in Bedford, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Bedford, Virginia, United States in 1810 and Southern District, Bedford, Virginia, United States in 1820. He died on 2 July 1884, in Harold, Floyd, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Floyd, Kentucky, United States.
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Welsh and English: in the Welsh border counties, from the Welsh male personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular since the Middle Ages particularly in honor of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king. The name may also arise from the Breton personal name Houuel, Huwel, Huwal, Howael, cognate with the Welsh name. Bretons were especially numerous in the eastern counties of England. See Powell .
English: perhaps from a Middle English personal name Huwel (spelled Howel), a shortening of Huwelot or Huelin (see Hewlett and Huling ), both pet forms of Middle English Huw (see Hugh ).
English: habitational name from Howell (Lincolnshire), from an uncertain initial element + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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