When Burwell Fowler was born in 1772, in Chesterfield, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph F. Fowler Sr., was 57 and his mother, Nancy Ann Tucker, was 48.
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English: occupational name for a fowler, a hunter or trapper of wild birds (a common medieval occupation), from Middle English fogheler, fugheler (Old English fugelere, a derivative of fugol ‘bird’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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