Brief Life History of John Balfour
When John Balfour Dowler was born in February 1823, in Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, La Jacques-Cartier, Quebec, Canada, his father, John Dowler, was 45 and his mother, Ann Balfour, was 37. He lived in Portland, Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais, Quebec, Canada in 1881. He died on 8 August 1913, in Poltimore, Val-des-Monts, Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 90.
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- John Dowler, "Canada Census, 1881"
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1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
Name Meaning
English (West Midlands): occupational name for a maker of felloes (wooden wheel rims), from a derivative of Middle English doule, deul, dul ‘felloe’, probably a borrowing of Old French do(u)ele ‘stave (of a barrel)’ and applied to the curved pieces of wood that form the circular rim of a wheel. Modern English dowel ‘headless pin, peg, or bolt’ may be the same word but this sense is not recorded in Middle English.
Irish (Leitrim): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dalachair, ‘descendant of Dalachair’, from a personal name possibly meaning ‘lover of assemblies’ (dál). It was also Anglicized as Dallagher.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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