When Mary McDowell was born on 24 April 1766, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, her father, John McDowell, was 29 and her mother, Agnes Bradford, was 19. She married John Urie in 1783, in Hopewell Township, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1802, at the age of 36.
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Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhghaill ‘son of Dubhghall’, a byname meaning ‘dark stranger’, used among the Gaels to distinguish the darker-haired Danes from fair-haired Norwegians. This is the usual Irish spelling of this name, while McDougall is the usual Scottish spelling. However, McDowall is also common in south west Scotland and a prominent Galloway family with this name first appear in the historical record in the late 13th century.
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