When John Dowler was born on 4 February 1827, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Dowler, was 31 and his mother, Ann Osborn, was 26. He married Selina Griffin on 28 November 1852, in Handsworth, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 14 May 1900, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 73, and was buried in Smethwick, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom.
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Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
English (West Midlands): occupational name for a maker of felloes (wooden wheel rims), from a derivative of Middle English doule, deul, dul ‘felloe’, probably a borrowing of Old French do(u)ele ‘stave (of a barrel)’ and applied to the curved pieces of wood that form the circular rim of a wheel. Modern English dowel ‘headless pin, peg, or bolt’ may be the same word but this sense is not recorded in Middle English.
Irish (Leitrim): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dalachair, ‘descendant of Dalachair’, from a personal name possibly meaning ‘lover of assemblies’ (dál). It was also Anglicized as Dallagher.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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