When John Lowe was born on 10 December 1804, in Pemberton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Lowe, was 26 and his mother, Jane Hesketh, was 11801. He married Ellen Meadows on 18 April 1824, in Wigan All Saints, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. He died in November 1850, in Pemberton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 45, and was buried in All Saints' Church, Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
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English and Scottish: variant of Low .
German (Löwe) and Danish (Løwe): from Middle High German lēwe, löuwe ‘lion’, hence a nickname for a brave or regal person. In some cases the surname may have been a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn distinguished by the sign of a lion. It is also found in Sweden. Compare Loewe 1, Lau , Lave , and Lurvey .
Jewish (Ashkenazic; Löwe): artificial name from German Löwe ‘lion’.
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