Brief Life History of George
When George Fowler was born about 1780, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, George Fowler, was 33 and his mother, Marion Darnley, was 29.
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World Events (3)
1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.
In 1802, John Playfair published the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. His influence was by James Hutton’s knowledge of the earth’s geology.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a fowler, a hunter or trapper of wild birds (a common medieval occupation), from Middle English fogheler, fugheler (Old English fugelere, a derivative of fugol ‘bird’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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