When Frederick Bruce Mowbray was born on 1 August 1883, in Howard, Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Mowbray, was 43 and his mother, Christina MacFarlane, was 35. He married Matilda Theresa Vander Hoeven on 25 November 1914, in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 11 November 1931, in Hamilton, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 48, and was buried in Burlington, Halton, Ontario, Canada.
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English (northern; of Norman origin): habitational name from Montbray (Manche). Robert de Mowbray was Earl of Northumbria 1086–95, but was later imprisoned and deposed for rebelling against William II.
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