When Esau Rowley was born on 14 April 1781, in Burslem, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Aaron Rowley, was 35 and his mother, Hannah Davenport, was 36. He died on 16 April 1781, in Burslem, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 0, and was buried in Burslem, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English: habitational name from one or more of various places called Rowley or Rowly, such as Rowley Regis (Staffordshire), Rowley (Devon, Durham), Rowleygreen Farm (Hertfordshire), Rowly (Surrey), Rowley (East Yorkshire), Rowley, near Bardsey (Yorkshire), Rowley in Lepton (Yorkshire), and Rowley Hill (Essex). The placenames probably all derive from Old English rūh ‘rough’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, though the East Yorkshire place may have been named with hlāw ‘mound, hill’ as the second element.
Irish: from Ó Roghallaigh, a variant of Ó Raghailligh. See Riley and O'Reilly .
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