When Elizabeth Rowe was born in 1802, in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England, her father, Thomas Rowe, was 38 and her mother, Molly Dyer, was 39. She married Robert Tonkin on 5 June 1824, in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1866, in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 64, and was buried in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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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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