When Arthur Powell was born on 21 September 1903, in Ontario, Canada, his father, Arthur Thomas Powell, was 34 and his mother, Matilda Nicholson, was 36.
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Hywel ‘son of Hywel’, a personal name meaning ‘eminent’ (see Howell ).
Irish: mainly of Welsh origin as in 1 above, but sometimes a surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Phóil ‘son of the servant of Saint Paul’ (see Guilfoyle ).
English: variant of Paul or Poole .
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