When Rebecca Crowell was born on 22 June 1793, in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Edmond Crowell, was 52 and her mother, Mehitable Baxter, was 35. She married Elijah Shiverick on 29 December 1811, in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States for about 5 years and Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States in 1855. She died on 10 December 1874, in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 81.
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English: habitational name from a lost place called Crowell in Spofforth (Yorkshire), or from a place in Oxfordshire named Crowell, from Old English crāwe ‘crow’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’.
Americanized form of German Grauel .
Americanized form of Dutch Krouwel or Crouwel: from Middle Dutch crauwel ‘trident hook, claw’, a metonymic occupational name for someone using this kind of tool, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn named In de Crouwel (‘In the Trident Hook’), with such a device depicted on the signboard.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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