Thomas Cowley

Male5 April 1790–

Brief Life History of Thomas

When Thomas Cowley was born on 5 April 1790, in Kirkmichael, Isle of Man, his father, Patrick Cowley, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Garret, was 24.

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Family Time Line

Patrick Cowley
1766–
Elizabeth Garret
1765–1847
Thomas Cowley
1790–
Henry Cowley
1792–
John Cowley
1794–

Sources (3)

  • Thomas Cowley, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Thomas Cowley, "Isle of Man Parish Registers, 1598-2009"
  • Thomas Cowley, "Isle of Man Births and Baptisms, 1607-1910"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (3)

World Events (6)

1797

Age 7

"""The Statute Laws of the Isle of Man"" by C. Briscoe are published."

1821

Age 31

Census gave Island population of 40,081.

1825

Age 35

Potato riots caused by imposition of tithes.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of various places called Cowley. One in Gloucestershire is named with Old English ‘cow’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’; two in Derbyshire have Old English col ‘(char)coal’ as the first element; and one near London is from Old English cofa ‘shelter, bay’ (see Cove ) or the personal name Cofa. The largest group, however, with examples in Buckinghamshire, Devon, Oxfordshire, and Staffordshire, were apparently named as ‘the wood or clearing of Cufa’; however, in view of the number of places called with this element, it is possible that it conceals a topographic term as well as a personal name.

Irish: shortened form of Macaulay (see McCauley ).

Manx: shortened form of Gaelic Mac Amhlaoibh ‘son of Amhlaoibh’ (a Gaelicized form of Old Norse Óláfr). For an alternative Manx form of the same patronymic see Callow .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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