When Elizabeth Betsy Rowley was born on 20 March 1730, in New London, New London, Connecticut, United States, her father, Isaac Rowley Sr, was 47 and her mother, Hannah Harris, was 30. She married Pvt Ebenezer Minor on 23 August 1750, in New London, New London, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 11 November 1817, in Lempster, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in East Lempster Cemetery, East Lempster, Lempster, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States.
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English: habitational name from one or more of various places called Rowley or Rowly, such as Rowley Regis (Staffordshire), Rowley (Devon, Durham), Rowleygreen Farm (Hertfordshire), Rowly (Surrey), Rowley (East Yorkshire), Rowley, near Bardsey (Yorkshire), Rowley in Lepton (Yorkshire), and Rowley Hill (Essex). The placenames probably all derive from Old English rūh ‘rough’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, though the East Yorkshire place may have been named with hlāw ‘mound, hill’ as the second element.
Irish: from Ó Roghallaigh, a variant of Ó Raghailligh. See Riley and O'Reilly .
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Possible Related NamesBetsey (Elizabeth) Rowley was the wife of Ebenezer Miner. Ebenezer was the 2nd Great Grandson of Thomas Minor. Thomas came to America from England in 1629 aboard the "Lyons Welp". He later moved to Co …
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