When Cordelia Rowe was born on 27 May 1813, in Gulval, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Rowe, was 31 and her mother, Mary Rowe, was 35. She married William Eddy on 4 January 1840, in Gulval, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in St Erth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom in 1861. She died on 8 April 1880, in Penzance, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 66.
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English: from Middle English rowe (Old English rāw) ‘row’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived by a hedgerow or in a row of houses in a street, or habitational, for someone who lived in a place so named. Compare Rawe and Rew .
English (of Norman origin): variant of Rolfe , Ralph , or Rough . Compare Rowson .
East German: habitational name from any of the places called Rowe, Rowa, Rowe(n). Compare Rowen .
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