When John Coward was born on 20 August 1834, in Worsborough Common, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Coward, was 27 and his mother, Hannah Goodger, was 24. He married Eliza Rawson in 1858, in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Onchan, Isle of Man in 1891. He died on 25 October 1896, in Kirkstall, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 62, and was buried in Adel, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English: occupational name for a cowherd, Middle English couh(i)erde, couhirde, couhurde (Old English cūhyrde). The surname has nothing to do with the modern English word coward, which is from Old French cuard, a pejorative term from coue ‘tail’ (from Latin cauda) with reference to an animal with its tail between its legs.
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